will keep
the dies for me, it is my intention to have some more gold medals
struck; therefore I beg you, in the meantime, not to permit the
striking of a single silver or copper medal.

I send enclosed an extract from my journal on my expedition from
France to Holland, in the year 1779, for the information of the
Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres. I trust, at the same
time, more to your judgment than to theirs. There is a medallist
who executed three medals for me in wax, one of them is the
battle between the Bonhomme Richard and the Serapis. The position
of the two ships is not much amiss; but the necessary figures are
much too near the principal objects; and he has placed them to
windward, instead of being as they really were, to leeward of the
Bonhomme Richard and Serapis. I do not at this moment recollect
the medallist's name, but he lives on the 3d or 4th stage, at a
marble cutter's almost opposite, but a little higher than your
former house, Cul-de-sac Rue Taitbout, and may be easily found.
It would be of use to see the medal he has made, although it is
by no means to be copied. I have not comprehended, in the extract
of my journal, the extreme difficulties I met with in Holland,
nor my departure from the Texel in the Alliance, when I was
forced out by the Vice Admiral Rhynst, in the face of the enemy's
fleet. The critical situation I was in, in Holland, needs no
explanation, and I shall not say how much the honour of the
American flag depended on my conduct, or how much it affected all
the belligerent powers. I shall only say it was a principal cause
of the resentment of England against Holland, and the war that
ensued. It is for you and the Academy to determine whether that
part of my services ought to be the subject of one side of the
medal.

I am, with perfect esteem and attachment, Your Excellency's most
obedient humble servant,
J. P. JONES.

No. 18. (p. 113)
PLATES XVIII and XIX.

_April 30, 1789--March 4, 1797._

George Washington, President, 1792.

PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON.

[_First President of the United States of America._]

General Washington in uniform and bareheaded, standing, facing the
left, has just given the calum