P. S. Mr Laurens is just arrived.
CHARLES J. FOX TO B. FRANKLIN.
St James's, April 19th, 1783.
Sir,
Although it is unnecessary for me to introduce to your acquaintance a gentlemen so well known to you as Mr Hartley, who will have the honor of delivering to you this letter, yet it may be proper for me to inform you, that he has the full and entire confidence of his Majesty's Ministers upon the subject of his mission.
Permit me, Sir, to take this opportunity of assuring you how happy I should esteem myself, if it were to prove my lot to be the instrument of completing a real and substantial reconciliation between two countries, formed by nature to be in a state of friendship one with the other, and thereby to put the finishing hand to a building, in laying the first stone of which I may fairly boast that I had some share.
I have the honor to be, with every sentiment of regard and esteem, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,
C. J. FOX.