Sender: Committee for Foreign Affairs
Recipient: William Lee

Sir

The enclosed resolve it is hoped will be productive of singular advantage
so far as relates to you, who must depend greatly for American
inteligence on your Connexions at Paris. Congress have been and are
exceedingly loaded with business, and, of late, have met with some
singular interruptions in the intended general arrangement of their
Foreign affairs, so that they have yet only decided in respect to
Doctor Franklin their Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of France.
Our first and most pressing business is the appreciation of our
currency. This point accomplished our Enemies themselves will
acknowledge their hopes of conquering us at an end. The British
Commissions sent on a foolish and wicked errand to America are
returning home completely disappointed, and there is reason from
appearances, to think, that the Land forces of Britain are gradually
withdrawing from these States. It is probable that the Marquis de la
Fayette, by whom this Letter goes, will obtain in Boston further
knowledge than we now have of the destination of a Fleet lately
departed from New York amounting to about one hundred & fifty Sail.
We Shall desire Mr. Adams to give you all possible information on the
arrival of this Packet, and Shall soon dispatch other Letters from this
Port.