Military events.--Preparations in Great Britain.--Urgent
necessity of aid.--Disposition of Spain.

To the Committee of Secret Correspondence. Paris, 4th March,
1777, 269

Complain of want of intelligence.

To the Committee of Secret Correspondence. Paris, 12th
March, 1777, 270

Want of intelligence from America.--Particular accounts
of their proceedings, and favorable but cautious policy
of the French Court.--Disposition of Holland.--Of
Spain.--Secret supplies from the latter.--Loan of two
millions sterling.--Applications for service from
foreign officers.--Contract for 5000 hogsheads tobacco
with the Farmers-General.--All Europe favorable to the
American cause.--English and French fleet.--Sir J.
Yorke's memorial to Holland.--Contract for monthly
packets.

Agreement between Messrs Franklin and Deane and the
Farmers-General of France, for the sale of a quantity of
tobacco, 282

Agreement for packets between M. Ray de Chaumont, on the one
part, and Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane, on the other, 284

To Jonathan Williams. Paris, 1st May, 1777, 285

From the Committee of Foreign Affairs to the Commissioners.
Philadelphia, 2d May, 1777, 286

Urge them to engage French merchants in American
trade.--British Generals discouraged.--Return of
Congress to Philadelphia.--State of the army.

From the Committee of Foreign Affairs to the Commissioners.
Philadelphia, 9th May, 1777, 290

Introducing J. Paul Jones.--His captain's commission.

To the Committee of Foreign Affairs. Paris, 25th May, 1777, 291

Mr Lee goes to Berlin.--Necessity of a free port in
Germany.--Cunningham.--Lafayette goes to America.

To the Committee of Foreign Affairs. Paris, 26th May, 1777, 296

Warfare on the British successful and
important.--Importance of a naval force in the German
ocean; and of carrying the war into Great Britain.

From the Committee of Foreign Affairs to the Commissioners.
Philadelphia, May 30th, 1777,