airs, as you will see by the
extract of my letter published by him in an American gazette, which I
have the honor to send you. I must beg leave to avail myself of your
friendship and of your position to have a communication of these facts
made to the honorable Assembly of the Nation, of which you are a member,
and to repeat to you those sentiments of respect and attachment, with
which I have the honor to be, my dear Sir, your most obedient and most

humble servant,

Th: Jefferson.

LETTER CCXII.--TO MR. NECKER, July 8, 1789

TO MR. NECKER.

Paris, July 8, 1789

Sir,

I have the honor to enclose you a copy of my letter to Monsieur de
la Fayette. When I called on him yesterday, he had already spoken to
Monsieur de Mirabeau, who acknowledged he had been in an error in what
he had advanced in the Assembly of the Nation, as to the proposition
supposed to have been made by me to your Excellency, and undertook to
declare his error, when the subject should be resumed by the Assembly,
to whom my letter to the Marquis de la Fayette will be also read.

I have thought it a duty, Sir, thus to correct, in the first moment, an
error, by which your name had been compromitted by an unfounded use
of mine, and shall be happy in every occasion of proving to you those
sentiments of profound respect and attachment, with which I have the
honor to be, your Excellency's most obedient and most humble servant,

Th: Jefferson.

LETTER CCXIII.--TO THE COUNT DE MONTMORIN, July 8, 1789

TO THE COUNT DE MONTMORIN.

Paris, July 8, 1789.

Sir,

My hotel having been lately robbed for the third time, I take the
liberty of uniting my wish with that of the inhabitants of this quarter,
that it might coincide with the arrangements of police, to extend to us
the protection of a guard. While the _Douane_ remained here, no accident
of that kind happened, but since their removal, other houses in the
neighborhood have been robbed as well as mine. Perhaps it may lessen the
difficulties of this request, that the house occupied by the people of
the _Douane_, will lodge abundantly a _corps de garde_. On the one side
of that house is Chaillot, on the other the Roule, on the third the
Champs Elysees, where accidents are said to happen very frequently, all
of which are very distant from any _corps de garde_.

I have the honor to be, with sentiments of the most perfect respect and
esteem, your Excellency's most obedient and most humble