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Franklin proposes to sail for America about the first or second week of July. He does not yet know however, by what conveyance he can go. Unable to travel by land, he must descend the Seine in a boat to Havre. He has sent to England to get some vessel bound for Philadelphia, to touch at Havre for him. But he re ceives information that this cannot be done. He has been on the look out ever since he received his permission to return ; but, as yet, no possible means of getting a passage have offered, and I fear it is very uncertain when any will offer. I am with very grea t esteem, Dear Sir,
your friend and servant,
TH: JEFFERSON.
LETTER LXVI.
TO WILLIAM CARMICHAEL.
Paris, June 22, 1785. SIR,
Your letter of April the 4th, came to my hands on the 16th of that month, and was acknowledged by mine of May the 3rd. That w r hich you did me the honor to write me on the 5th of April, never came to hand until the 19th of May, upwards of a month af ter the one of the day before. I have hopes of sending the present by a Mr. Jarvis, who went from hence to Holland some time ago. About this date, I suppose him to be at Brussels, and that from thence he will inform me, whether, in his way to Madrid, he will pass by this place. If he does, this shall be accompanied by a cypher for our future use ; if he does not, I must still await a safe opportunity. Mr. Jarvis is a citizen of the United States, from New York, a gentleman of intelligence, in the mercantile line, from whom you will be able to get considerable information of American affairs. I think he left America in January. He in formed us that Congress were about to appoint a Mr. Lambe, of Connecticut, their consul to Morocco, and to send him to their ministers, commissioned to treat with the Barbary powers, for in structions. Since that, Mr. Jay enclosed to Mr. Adams, in London, a resolution of Congress deciding definitively on amicable treaties with the Barbary States, in the usual way, and informing him that he had sent a letter and instructions to us, by Mr. Lambe. Though it is near three weeks since we received a communication of this from Mr. Adams, yet we hear nothing further of Mr. Lambe.
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