not. Mr.
Necker will probably remain in office. It would seem natural that he
should endeavor to have the hostile part of the Council removed, but
I question if he finds himself firm enough for that. A perfect
co-operation with the _Tiers_ will be his wisest game. This great crisis
being now over, I shall not have matter interesting enough to trouble
you with, as often as I have done lately. There has nothing remarkable
taken place in any other part of Europe.

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

Th: Jefferson.

LETTER CCX.--TO THE MARQUIS DE LA FAYETTE, July 6, 1789

TO THE MARQUIS DE LA FAYETTE.

Paris, July 6, 1789.

Dear Sir,

I never made an offer to any body to have corn or flour brought here
from America: no such idea ever entered my head. Mr. Necker desired me
to give information in America, that there would be a want of flour. I
did so in a letter to Mr. Jay, which he published with my name to it,
for the encouragement of the merchants. Those here, who have named me
on this subject, must have mistaken me for Mr. Parker. I have heard
him say, he offered to Mr. Necker to bring a large supply, yet I do not
think I ever repeated this: or if I did, it must have been in a company
I relied on. I will thank you to satisfy Mr. Necker of the truth. It
would be disagreeable, and perhaps mischievous, were he to have an idea
that I encouraged censures on him. I will bring you the paper you desire
to-morrow; and shall dine at the Dutchess Danville's, where I shall be
happy to meet you.

Adieu. Yours affectionately.

Th: Jefferson.

LETTER CCXI.--TO THE MARQUIS DE LA FAYETTE, July 7,1789

TO THE MARQUIS DE LA FAYETTE.

Paris, July 7,1789.

Dear Sir,

Your letter of yesterday gave me the first information that Monsieur de
Mirabeau had suggested to the honorable the Assembly of the Nation, that
I had made an offer to Mr. Necker to obtain from America a quantity
of corn or flour, which had been refused. I know not how Monsieur de
Mirabeau has been led into this error. I never in my life made any
proposition to Mr. Necker on the subject: I never said I had made such
a proposition. Some time last autumn, Mr. Necker did me the honor to
desire I would have notified in the United States, that corn and flour
would meet with a good sale in France. I conveyed this notice, in a
letter to Mr. Jay, Secretary for Foreign Aff