Complain of want of intelligence.
To the Committee of Secret Correspondence. Paris, 12th March, 1777,
Want of intelligence from America.—Particular accounts of their proceedings, and favorable but cautious policy of the French Court.—Disposition of Holland.—Of Spain.—Secret supplies from the latter.—Loan of two millions sterling.—Applications for service from foreign officers.—Contract for 5000 hogsheads tobacco with the Farmers-General.—All Europe favorable to the American cause.—English and French fleet.—Sir J. Yorke's memorial to Holland.—Contract for monthly packets.
Agreement between Messrs Franklin and Deane and the Farmers-General of France, for the sale of a quantity of tobacco,
Agreement for packets between M. Ray de Chaumont, on the one part, and Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane, on the other,
To Jonathan Williams. Paris, 1st May, 1777,
From the Committee of Foreign Affairs to the Commissioners. Philadelphia, 2d May, 1777,
Urge them to engage French merchants in American trade.—British Generals discouraged.—Return of Congress to Philadelphia.—State of the army.
From the Committee of Foreign Affairs to the Commissioners. Philadelphia, 9th May, 1777,
Introducing J. Paul Jones.—His captain's commission.