Requesting the release of the neutral ship Flora; the cargo, if English, may be condemned.
Recommending the Baron d'Arendt.
Free ships make free goods.
Complains of the trouble of maritime affairs.—Difficulty of meeting the drafts.—Accounts of the Commissioners.—American prizes in Danish ports.—Capture of neutral vessels with English cargoes.—European powers have adopted the rule, that free ships make free goods.—Unfavorable disposition in Europe towards England.—Difficulties in the exchange of prisoners.
Recommending Commodore Jones.
Respecting neutral ships.—Expresses a wish that all private property and all private individuals might be unmolested.—Letter of General Clinton.
Orders to M. de la Luzerne relative to the French holders of American paper money.
Making new drafts.
Mr Laurens appointed to negotiate a loan in Holland.
Communicating the acknowledgment of Congress for the attentions of the French Consul in Bergen.