Etats-Unis, 1783 609 
Aug. 16. Montholon, memoir on La Rochelle as 
free port (f . 186) . 
Aug., [n.s.]. Drafts of royal edicts relating 
to establishment of Le Havre and Lorient as free ports for 
U.S. trade (ff. 167-173). 
End of Aug. , [n.s.], observations on U.S. commerce 
(ff . 252-254) . 
End of Aug., [n.s.], memoir proposing trade between 
Farm General and U.S. (ff. 255-256). 
Sept. 16. Instructions of inhabitants of Hart- 
ford, Conn, to their representatives in state assembly 
(ff . 283-284) . 
Sept. 24. J". Hancock, speech as governor of 
Massachusetts to state assembly (ff. 314-316). 
Sept., [n.s.]. Note on Anglo-American com- 
mercial relations (f . 259) . 
Sub.jects Treated 
La Luzerne, letters and enclosures to Vergennes, 
Holker, Castries, concerning his mission in Philadelphia; 
American finances: taxes, loans, subsidies, exchange 
rates, counterfeiting; causes and results of American troop 
mutiny; Congress moves to Princeton; observations on U.S. 
constitution and constitution of Pennsylvania; American 
trade with West Indies, Havana, France; Franco-American 
consular convention: shipbuilding in U.S.; western lands; 
action of Congress on foreign affairs; recall requested 
by B. Franklin; his character and that of his grandson; 
J. Adams' defense for having signed provisional peace 
treaty without knowledge of France; congressional request 
for portraits of king and queen of France; affairs of 
Holker in Philadelphia; Dana ordered to leave St. Peters- 
burg; Swedish minister requests recall; British evacuation 
of New York; American loyalist refugees; recompense for 
French officers in U.S. army; activities of Washington; 
statue to Washington; services of Steuben; affair of Mme . 
Cassini (ff. 3-9, 28-33, 80, 96-98, 120-129, 136-144, 147- 
149, 180-182, 188-189, 204-210, 251, 267 273-277, 283- 
284, 290, 295-296, 306-311, 314-326, 328). 
Vergennes, letters to La Luzerne; American drafts 
on Paris agents; French subsidies; French policy towards 
U.S.; future of Congress; weakness of U.S.; Mississippi 
navigation and western boundaries; Spanish-American and 
Anglo -American relations; fisheries; peace preliminaries 
and definitive treaties; opinion on Jay, Adams, and Frank- 
lin; Anglo-Dutch negotiations; imperial mediation; U.S.- 
Portuguese relations; Franco-American trade; Lorient as 
free port; services of Steuben; gift of American Philo- 
sophical Society to Louis XVT ; prize cases; observations 
on mutiny of U.S. troops; portraits of king and queen for 
Congress; theft of money from Rochambeau's army; Crevecoeur 
appointed consul at New York; new diplomatic cipher; Jay 
in Madrid; anti-French operations of J. Adams in Europe 
(ff. 63-74, 175-176, 178-179, 201, 243, 261-265). 
Franco-American trade; potentialities and importance; 
question of free ports in France; duties (ff . 10-12, 22-23, 
