[7] The plan of a treaty sent to Mr Adams by Congress, may be found in the Secret Journals of Congress, Vol. II. p. 378.
[8] These letters were afterwards printed under the title of Twentysix Letters upon Interesting Subjects, respecting the Revolution in America.
[9] The salary allowed the Ministers abroad at that time, was two thousand five hundred pounds sterling a year.
[10] From Mr Adams's remarks, at the end of this Memorial, it would seem to have been furnished him by another hand.
[11] The Treaty mentioned in this letter, and the Convention respecting vessels recaptured, were ratified by Congress, on the 23d of January, 1783. The Treaty and Convention are printed at large, together with the form of ratification, in the Journal of Congress under this date.
[12] See Franklin's Correspondence, Vol. IV. p. 48. Also the North American Review for January, 1830, p. 21.
[13] This proved to be an error. Mr Jay wrote to Doctor Franklin, on the 26th of January, 1783, as follows, "It having been suspected, that I concurred in the appointment of your grandson to the place of Secretary to the American Commission for Peace, at your instance, I think it right thus unsolicited to put it in your power to correct the mistake, &c." See the whole letter in Franklin's Correspondence, Vol. IV. p. 73.
[14] These papers will be found in the Correspondence of the Ministers for negotiating a peace.
[15] For some account of the part taken by Dr Franklin, in regard to the Treaty, before the arrival of Mr Jay and Mr Adams in Paris, see the North American Review, for January, 1830, No. 66, p. 15.