Department of State Trenton Oct. 13. 1798. Sir, Last evening I received letters from Bourdeaux, by which it appears that General Pinckney embarked with his family, about the middle of August, for New York. The letters came in the ship Franklin, arrived in the river Delaware. I inclose copies of these letters, being M^r Shipwith's to M^r Fenwick, mentioning that on the 21^st of August he had received an official copy of an Arret of the Directory, taking off the embargo on American vessels; & M^r Fenwick's of Aug^t 28^th covering the former. A private letter to me from a M^r Theodore Peters, a Dutch merchant at Bourdeaux of reputation, dated Aug^t 27.^th says "The news brought by the liberty has made no great sensation." The copy of a letter dated at Bourdeaux Aug.^t 27. from M^r Hory gives the information concerning General Pinckney's departure. A Paris newspaper of the 24^th of August, sent by M^r Hory for Gen.^l Pinckney, contains Philadelphia news of the 24^th of July. An extract of those articles is inclosed; to which is added from the same paper a paragraph shewing that the wife of M^r de la Fayette was in Paris, looking after her estates, impaired while she was confined in the "Austrian Dungeon." This perhaps is to prepare the way for the return of her husband. I have rec.^d letters from M^r Adams at Berlin dated July 16^th relative to the renewal of the treaty with Prussia, which is decyphering; and of July 23. giving an account of the rendering homage to the King by his nobles and people: the latter I have the honour to inclose; together with a private letter addressed to you from M^r Murray. I am, with great respect, Sir, your most ob^t. servant, Timothy Pickering. The President of the United States.