The Hague 12. April 1798. 3^d My dear Friend, At length I have heard once more from you, & M^rs M — from our friend M^r M^cHenry — your dear Pro? your letter of Nov. — it has been almost as long in coming as one & more dispatches are in going — At last this day I will be received the last of your kind offices at the bank in S^t ars embarked! — One [undecipherable] and I shall not have myself clear of every expence — that only with about 400 guilders in — to be [underline: Scotland] not keep your own — the living here is as dear as in Philad — the demands from company in the necessity of attending to various people in this rather y. com: munity, greater — & more urgent as time wore from critical to time — da. back again — The Style of entertaining here is heavy ceremonious & costly — We are rigid &conomists — we go in a hack Schurys if we go out of town — in a hack if we go in the rain, intern I keep & little as a man who speaks dutch & english who is appointed to housekeeping — I keep no horse — you have been in our diner I come — King [undecipherable] arrive — yet my dear friend, furnish as many rooms as we want only — in the association among the display for every thing of life as they are ALL SHARPERS — it is your union. Resident is pretty much as he stated — though I see them in a th: in respect about our Salaries — I know what you will say — retread — but you know not the sort of scene we are in — a mar: ry'd minister must in must be certain people at their houses & some of his own. You showed one to Hollingsworth this he mentioned that I minded to [carry M^rs [undecipherable]] in the Spring — "That is bad." — for on this — you know I could not help it as we are rigid &conomists as I feel any uneasiness at the necessity of spending money — he live as long as possible — but he could assist with decency as genteel people under 8000 a year S^d — & has her raised the price — a thing not known — We life in this house the U.S. has not been from it two almost and this dreadful Winter in camp & in Dam Two officials of these rows can some money the innkeeper undertook it — they said their originals powers extended to repair I shall beg for an income — the more conjunctive the — We thanked for you in the peace, though we heard, a I mentioned in mine of 4th Jan^y that you ale were beg — In that letter I mentioned the Rea. Believe him [undecipherable] I have often written to the Secretary of State — The winds have been [previous] Week d. N.W. very since the 7. Oct^b — That must account, with probable ca[undecipherable] for your not hearing from the Envoys at Paris up to 3. Feb. — But my own Sir — a state is think at Paris at the Commission that will pose any body — The Directory have selected Gerry — a will put in separation with him & I understand from Gen^d P will order Pa M. to quit France — I can not learn what new property Gerry has discovered in the mill stone was turning & ever grinding every thing — what new property he has discovered by means of algebra in his own powers or in their place — but so it is — The whole G. made ONE ommission — one is selected when supposed opinions they say promise most confidence in them — Thus my dear Sir the Directory have us on the hip — they M^r G. Stops after all that — past — after the very ground of Negotiation is changed by late subsequent Italian arrival — more stated by: himself I believe even devise — each is deceived in the degree of his own adept abilities — reads: a Labyrinth without a clue — he had run a circle as many have seen it — &rstent one I think he is too low himself She fear that with all his goodness of heart he has the fault mistaking the powers of a dino a brilliant Society for depression to [undecipherable] — the Cambo Paris for [undecipherable] — the people O' the firm [undecipherable] put it on a them — in dignify'd matrons meeting to held even as the real pacificators — If I see them — no good entertainers &, in a no doubt, you know whether a man — that man as of women who becomes dey polities conjecture. without about a company as ours am, I do a out a the Maun [undecipherable] Edit & Justice to settle the dispute on firm principles ever starting by the [undecipherable] claim — do that soon, or Genalle thank he wanted commission back So p placing, some such men as Pinckney & Marshall and circumstances of calamity for [undecipherable] the G.S. is desponsure to them two — every thing said against are — no man by reason, else he does — If he does not obtain his objects speedily it is utterly impossible be can go justify a Sir that place. So much [undecipherable] as a by Co in the pander a [undecipherable] & the diagnostic every measure — leaves — a while it &lengthens France & get binds not to anything but to the front with him — no principle established — no hope of success held out that Gen^d P. had leave — no 6^th — so he would have [undecipherable] me on his letters. In his of 23. March — they had resolved all to resist the proposal — I have seen M^rs Mau's book — & despise it too much to read another a. I should not be surprised to see another born on the same soil & not very unlike it — Harper's work does immense good — it is in England the party of a [undecipherable] writing the prophets arriving powers to [undecipherable] on are devoted to a charity — [undecipherable] title one passed this of this past g. Edition — &lay out I will write again soon. The Gov have an [undecipherable] — towards U.S. — Taypin Spain has sent her eyes as to limits to — I have taken great pains here with the minister, as amiable & sensible a man, lately in the council of State, on this subject, you since last Summer and do not know that he has communicated as it to his court. M^r Dolsinore is very positive to as: able his family — Pray remember me most kindly & respectfully to M^rs M^cHenry and do also to our fair friend ambition your [undecipherable] as M^rs Marcou — and do also to [undecipherable] with Handman Harper — M^r Dennis Tracy — Prop — J. Smith C [undecipherable] [undecipherable] God bless you, my dear friend & believe me always affectionately [undecipherable] To the James M^cHenry Es^q Sec. at War &c