ecessary, and the moment should arrive when you shall
find that they will be effectual, you are authorized to signify through
such channel as you shall find suitable, that our government and nation,
faithful in their attachments to this gentleman for the services he has
rendered them, feel a lively interest in his welfare, and will view
his liberation as a mark of consideration and friendship for the United
States, and as a new motive for esteem and a reciprocation of kind
offices toward the power to whom they shall be indebted for this act.

A like letter being written to Mr. Pinckney, you will of course take
care, that however you may act through different channels, there be
still a sufficient degree of concert in your proceedings.

I am, with great and sincere esteem, Dear Sir, your most obedient and
most humble servant,

Th: Jefferson

LETTER CXXXVII.--TO MR. PINCKNEY, March 16, 1793

TO MR. PINCKNEY.

Philadelphia, March 16, 1793.

Dear Sir,

I wrote you on the 30th of December, and again a short letter on the
1st of January, since which I have received yours of October the 2nd and
5th, November the 6th and 9th, and December the 13th, 14th, 15th. I now
enclose you the Treasurer's second of exchange for twenty-four thousand
seven hundred and fifty guilders, to be employed in the purchase of
copper for the mint, from Sweden, or wherever else it can be got on the
best terms; the first of exchange having been enclosed in my letter of
December the 30th.

I am in hopes you will have been able to enter into proper arrangements
with the British Minister for the protection of our seamen from
impressment, before the preparations for war shall have produced
inconvenience to them. While he regards so minutely the inconveniences
to themselves which may result from a due regulation of this practice,
it is just he should regard our inconveniences also, from the want of
it. His observations in your letter imply merely, that if they should
abstain from injuring us, it might be attended with inconvenience to
themselves.

You ask, what should be your conduct, in case you should at any
time discover negotiations to be going on, which might eventually be
interesting to us. The nature of the particular case will point out what
measures, on your part, would be the most for our interest, and to your
discretion we must refer the taking such measures, without waiting for
instructions, where circumstances would not admit