Mr. Wythe, so kindly extended to you, leave it
necessary for me to add nothing of that kind. Be assiduous in learning,
take much exercise for your health, and practise much virtue. Health,
learning, and virtue, will insure your happiness; they will give you
a quiet conscience, private esteem, and public honor. Beyond these, we
want nothing but physical necessaries, and they are easily obtained.
My daughters are well, and join me in love to yourself, your mother,
brothers, and sisters.

I am, with very sincere esteem, Dear Peter, your affectionate

friend,

Th: Jefferson.

LETTER CXLII.--TO THE COMTE DE BERNSTORFF, June 19, 1788

TO THE COMTE DE BERNSTORFF.

Paris, June 19, 1788.

I had the honor of addressing your Excellency, by Admiral Paul Jones,
on the 21st of January, on the subject of the prizes taken under his
command during the late war, and sent into Bergen. I communicated at the
same time a copy of the powers which the Congress of the United States
of America had been pleased to confide to me therein, having previously
shown the original to the Baron de Blome, Envoy Extraordinary of his
Majesty, the King of Denmark, at this court; and I furnished, at the
same time, to Admiral Paul Jones, such authority as I was empowered
to delegate, for the arrangement of this affair. That officer has
transmitted me a copy of your Excellency's letter to him of the 4th of
April, wherein you are pleased to observe, that the want of full powers
on his part was an invincible obstacle to the definitive discussion of
this claim with him, and to express your dispositions to institute a
settlement at this place. Always assured of the justice and honor of
the court of Denmark, and encouraged by the particular readiness of your
Excellency to settle and remove this difficulty from between the two
nations, I take the liberty of recalling your attention to it. The place
of negotiation proposed by your Excellency, meets no objection from us,
and it removes, at the same time, that which the want of full powers in
Admiral Paul Jones had produced in your mind. These full powers Congress
have been pleased to honor me with. The arrangement taken between the
person to be charged with your full powers and myself, will be final
and conclusive. You are pleased to express a willingness to treat at
the same time on the subjects of amity and commerce. The powers formerly
communicated on our part, were given to Mr. Adams, Doctor Franklin