measures for replacing
the clear balance of cash in the hands of Messrs. W. and J. Willincks,
and Nicholas and Jacob Van Staphorsts and Hubard.

This matter being settled, you will be pleased to proceed on the mission
to Algiers. This you will do by the way of Madrid, if you think any
information you can get from Mr. Carmichael or any other, may be
equivalent for the trouble, expense, and delay of the journey. If not
proceed in whatever other way you please to Algiers.

Proper powers and credentials for you, addressed to that government, are
herewith enclosed. The instructions first given to Admiral Paul Jones
are so full that no others need be added, except a qualification in one
single article, to wit: should that government finally reject peace on
the terms in money, to which you are authorized to go, you may offer to
make the first payments for peace and that for ransom in naval stores,
reserving the right to make the subsequent annual payments in money.

You are to be allowed your travelling expenses, your salary as minister
resident in Portugal going on. Those expenses must be debited to
the Algerine mission, and not carried into your ordinary account as
resident. Mr. Cutting is allowed one hundred dollars a month and his
expenses, which, as soon as he joins you, will of course be consolidated
with yours. We have made choice of him as particularly qualified to aid,
under your direction, in the matters of account, with which he is well
acquainted. He receives here an advance of one thousand dollars, by a
draft on our bankers in Holland, in whose hands the fund is deposited.
This, and all other sums furnished him, to be debited to the Algerine
fund. I enclose you a letter to our bankers giving you complete
authority over these funds, which you had better send with your first
draft, though I send a copy of it from hence by another opportunity.

This business being done, you will be pleased to return to Lisbon, and
to keep yourself and us, thereafter, well informed of the transactions
in Morocco; and as soon as you shall find that the succession to
that government is settled and stable, so that we may know to whom a
commissioner may be addressed, be so good as to give us the information,
that we may take measures in consequence.

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

Th: Jefferson.

LETTER CXXXIX.--TO COLONEL HUMPHREYS, March 22, 1793

TO COLONEL