lf entered into the
objections to these appointments. On the contrary, I believe that
your nomination gave general satisfaction. Your commission will be
immediately made out, but as the opportunities of conveyance at this
season are precarious, and you propose coming to this place, I think it
better to retain it.

As to the delay proposed in your letter, it was to be expected: indeed a
winter passage from Charleston to this place, or across the Atlantic, is
so disagreeable, that if either that circumstance or the arrangement of
your affairs should render it in the smallest degree eligible to you to
remain at home till the temperate season comes on, stay till after the
vernal equinox; there will be no inconvenience to the public attending
it. On the contrary, as we are just opening certain negotiations with
the British minister here, which have not yet assumed any determinate
complexion, a delay till that time will enable us to form some judgment
of the issue they may take, and to know exactly in what way your
co-operation at the place of your destination may aid us. On this and
other accounts it will be highly useful that you take this place in
your way, where, or at New York, you will always be sure of finding a
convenient, passage to England.

I have the honor to be, with the most perfect esteem and respect, Sir,
your most obedient and most humble servant,

Th: Jefferson.

LETTER XCII.--TO WILLINKS, VAN STAPHORSTS, AND HUBARD, Jan. 23,1792

TO MESSRS. WILLINKS, VAN STAPHORSTS, AND HUBARD.

Philadelphia, January 23,1792.

Gentlemen,

On the 19th of March last, I had the honor to enclose you a bill for
ninety-nine thousand florins, drawn on yourselves by the Treasurer of
the United States, in favor of the Secretary of State, and I desired you
to raise an account with the Secretary of State, and pass that bill to
his credit in the account. In my letter of May the 14th, I enclosed
you a duplicate of the same bill, and informed you that this money was
destined to pay the salaries and contingent expenses of our ministers
and agents of every description, from July the 1st, 1790, and nothing
else; and I added these words; 'I must beg the favor of you, also, to
make up your account to the close of the last day of June this present
year, into which no expenses are to enter which preceded, the 1st day of
July, 1790, these being the dates of the appropriation of the law.' And
lastly, in my letter of August the 5