Letters to Benjamin Franklin 511 



From Tristram Barnard to The American Commissioners 

 [1778.] October 9. 



Absent from America four years; employed in the English service; 

 desires to return home and share his country's fate ; asks for papers 

 which will protect him against American vessels. Full account of a 

 most valuable whale-fishery discovered by England since the present 

 contest opened ; details the movements of the ships employed therein. 

 A, L. S. 4 p. XLI, 104 and 105. 



From D[avid] Hartley. 1778. October 9. 



Quotes the answer from the Admiralty Office to his letters concern- 

 ing an exchange of prisoners ; their refusal to make any exchange 

 except man for man. A. L. S. 2 p. XII, 29. 



From Chevalier de Berny. 1778. October 9. Strasbourg. 



Has received no answer to the five or six letters he has written 

 Franklin, though it is a year since he sent him a pamphlet entitled 

 " L'CEil du Maitre." The King, Queen and other sovereigns have 

 honored him with kind acknowledgments; claims a similar courtesy 

 from Franklin. A. L. S. 3 p. (In French.) XII, 30. 



From Buffot de Millery. 1778. October 9. Santenay. 



Franklin's promise to obtain some news from America of M. le 

 Vicomte de Mauroy, whose affairs were left in his hands. A. L. S. 

 I p. (In French.) XII, 31. 



From Ra[lph] Izard to The American Commissioners. 

 1778. October 10. Paris. 



Indignant at M. de Sartine's letter of the 7th inst., in which he is 

 referred to a course of law for the recovery of his baggage on board 

 the ship Nile, carried into Marseilles by a French privateer; founds 

 his claim upon an article in the treaty; begs that they will speak of 

 it to M. de Sartine. A. L. S. 3 p. XII, 34. 



From Bailly, aine. 1778. October 10. Nantes. 



Concerning a bill of exchange drawn by Mr. Bingham on Messrs. 

 Franklin and Adams. A. L. S. i p. (In French.) XII, 35. 



