596 Etats-Unis, 1781 
Oct. 17, [n.s.]. News of military operations 
before Yorktown (ff. 85-89). 
Oct. 19. Articles of capitulation at Yorktown. 
Oct. 26. President of Congress, proclamation. 
Oct. 30, [n.s.]. Summary statement of supplies 
to be sent to Brest for shipment to U.3„ (f . 167) . 
Nov. 3. Abbe Bandole, sermon delivered in 
Philadelphia at Te Deum celebrating surrender of Cornwallis 
(f . 179) . 
Dec. 4. F. Fridrichsen, account of excesses 
committed by three American vessels upon two British ships 
(ff. 323-326). 
[Dec. 25]. Ridley, memoir on supplies for state 
of Maryland (ff . .397-398) . 
Dec. 2*9. Extract from supposed account of Ameri- 
can affairs by Silas Deane, published in Royal Gazette of 
New York (ff. 436-441). 
1781, [n.s.]. Memoir on America (ff. 470-472). 
Nov. 6. Pennsylvania Packet . 
Sub.jects Treated 
Mission of La Luzerne in Philadelphia: his reports, 
Vergennes' instructions; U.S. finances: debts, loans, 
subsidies, currency, taxes, exchange rates in Philadelphia; 
military and naval operations in America; U.S. recovery 
of Georgia; discussion of peace terms in U.S. and in Congress: 
fisheries, boundaries; congressional instructions to peace 
plenipotentiaries; preliminaries of peace; league of neutrals; 
U.S. relations with Spain; activities of Franklin in Paris; 
mission of J. Adams in Holland; claim of Mme . de Kalb; ac- 
tivities of American privateers; cipher used in France by 
J. Laurens; elections in Pennsylvania; American trade with 
Britain via neutral countries; U.S. relations with Holland; 
attitude of Russia towards U.S.; American inertia; Russo- 
Austrian mediation; Maryland purchase of supplies in France; 
Livingston as U.S. secretary for foreign affairs; victory 
at Yorktown; relations of U.S. with Prussia; U.S. presen- 
tation of cannon to De Grasse; Te_ Deum celebrating victory 
at Yorktown; letters of Silas Deane; American and French 
trade with Britain; relations of Franklin and Deane in 
Paris; facilities in America for naval construction; war 
expenses; correspondence of La Luzerne with Castries; Hanson 
elected president of Congress; attempt of British spies to 
steal secret journals and records of Congress; Lincoln 
elected secretary of war; recommendation in favor of Du- 
portail; rumor in America of Anglo-Russian alliance; return 
of John Temple to Boston; Mississippi navigation; publication 
of secret article of Franco-American treaties of 1778; ac- 
tivities of S. Adams with regard to peace terms; situation 
in Vermont; Virginia politics; Marbois appointed French 
consul general in Philadelphia par interim ; revolt of Penn- 
sylvania troops; American judicial system; recruiting diffi- 
culties in U.S.; proposed constitution for New Hampshire; 
state boundaries in U.S.; western migration; prices; con- 
fiscated property of American loyalists (ff. 3, 4, 6, 18, 
38-40, 47, 50, 53, 73, 81, 91, 95, 103, 127, 144, 156, 163, 
