6o Letters to Benjamin Franklin 



will be glad to leave a kingdom in which they labor under insult 

 and oppression. Eager for Franklin to procure and forward the 

 security so anxiously solicited ; extreme secrecy to be observed prevents 

 their sending the required descriptive list. A. L. S. 2 p. XIV, 27. 



From Philip Wag[e]ner. 1779. April 10. Rotterdam. 



Is impecunious and in a strange country. Asks money to go to 

 America, there being an American ship in port. Promises to refund 

 loan on arrival in America. A. L. S. 2 p. (See LIX, 3.) LIX, 7. 



From Ja[me]s Hutton. 1779. April 11. 



Sends for that promised protection for the " Good Intent," Captain 

 Francis Mugford, which goes to and from Labrador to the Moravian 

 Mission Settlements for the conversion of the heathen. A. L. S. i p. 



XIV, 28. 



From Chevalier de Keralio. 1779. April 12. A I'Ecole Royale, Paris. 



Madame la Comtesse de Forbach sends the enclosed letter to Frank- 

 lin and begs him to read the memoir in favor of M. le Baron de Ried, 

 and send a short reply that she may prove her commission accomplished. 

 (In French.) XIV, 29. 



From The Representative [Jean Paul Marat]. 1779. April 12. 



Requesting Dr. Franklin's presence at the meeting of the Committee 

 and that he give his opinion of certain discoveries which would in- 

 fluence public opinion, and his sanction would silence a hostile cabal. 

 A. L. S. 2 p. XLIV, 34. 



Printed in Works (Smyth, VII, 286). 



Fro?n Stephen Sayre. 1779. April 13. Copenhagen. 



Has been ill many days. Had an audience with the King of Sweden, 

 a propos of the advisability of Sweden getting possession of Porto 

 Rico or some island in the West Indies, for purposes of trade, etc. ; 

 is everywhere taken to be in the employ of Congress; has neither 

 abused the character nor assumed it. Desires letters to the Governor 

 of Dominica whither he expects to go to secure an estate he owns 

 there. Begs Franklin to mention him once more to Congress. A. L. 

 S. 4 p. XIV, 30. 



