Now I have all 11 images. Pages 1, 6, and 7 are archival placeholder notices. Pages 2–5 are the primary letter; pages 8–11 are alternate copies of the same letter. I'll transcribe the primary pages, using the copies to clarify difficult passages. The Hague 11. Aug^t 1797. N^o 4 30 [undecipherable] I wrote to you my dear friend on the 9. — and since have seen in a N. York paper that little is to be expected [undecipherable] from this Session — Sincerely do I lament. — Several here in public life have asked me about this — I might [undecipherable] France does not arm against us — it can not — that if she had seamen & officers she has not [undecipherable] that can [undecipherable] conscious of immense internal strength & that there [undecipherable] perfect Sincerity in the Executive & [undecipherable] Congress have gratify'd the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] were but for a small beginning — [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] ten frigates and 20 [undecipherable] Ships are considered as a trifle in a country whose [undecipherable] has near 40,000 seamen & 60,000,000 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] of course feeling the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] immediate [undecipherable] of resources that can be [undecipherable] into [undecipherable] [undecipherable] away if the worst Should come, we lay upon our oars [undecipherable] till the disposition of France manifests itself — This [undecipherable] to — But alas — alas! [undecipherable] France will urge as among the terms of returning peace and [undecipherable] a loan of ten or more million of dollars — Paine industriously now circulates the idea that the dear [undecipherable] expense of France when she gave us our Independence!! was 18,000,000 Doll.$ — & that it is as little as we can do to lend her as much at present — [undecipherable] give her as much — Daily almost I have to give Passports to [undecipherable] citizens with French cockades — Those who are of the true blue [undecipherable] have a Special Passport from M. Adet — [undecipherable] letter [undecipherable] of France a member of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — those who have not those mysterious [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] him [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of the Directory under their Passports [undecipherable] all [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] can not go into American Minister, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] can not go into [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] France except you have a [undecipherable] under [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] This is the [undecipherable] of France to let our citizens see & feel [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] The impotence of their own Government — that as mere [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] people of [undecipherable] Americans they are nothing — a Something only of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Americans. — Yet in the U.S., the Treaty, which the French [undecipherable] Americans — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] its [undecipherable] is honourably maintained in all [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] but [undecipherable] intelligence is Rejected by a large minority — I really do pity [undecipherable] people [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — their duties — their [undecipherable] wealth — their calculations about [undecipherable] & their [undecipherable] to study an obstinate [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] Constitutional [undecipherable] their [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] of those few who would vote against the Amputation — I went on that day to Rotterdam [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] paused awhile at Delft & returned next day to this place — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] all was Still & apathie (if such a word be) at [undecipherable] 1500 votes 1100 [undecipherable] against [undecipherable] Several told me they [undecipherable] not vote because they did not understand such things — Others because the Preliminary Declaration of the rights of man excluded the Prince of Orange — & their Second [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] recommended it — I may remember [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] The French will now give them one in the Style of the Italian Caesar — I can [undecipherable] [undecipherable] are making to obtain M. Noël's recall — He is [undecipherable] a man I believe for the dirty [undecipherable] [undecipherable] who is to regenerate a People by deception & [undecipherable] or [undecipherable] a force — tho' he can do a little at all — Pray send the [undecipherable] to the President the News papers — Yours always most affectionately my dear friend —