only to desire that you will satisfy yourself as to any facts
relative thereto, the evidence of which cannot be transmitted, and that
you will communicate the same to me, that justice may be done between
the public and the claimant.

We shall have occasion to ask your assistance in procuring a workman
or two for our mint; but this shall be the subject of a separate letter
after I shall have received more particular explanations from the
director of the mint.

I have the honor to be, with great and sincere esteem, Dear sir, your
most obedient and most humble servant,

Th: Jefferson.

LETTER CXII.--TO THOMAS PINCKNEY, June 11, 1792

TO THOMAS PINCKNEY.

Philadelphia, June 11, 1792.

Sir,

The letter I have addressed to Admiral Jones, of which you have had the
perusal, has informed you of the mission with which the President has
thought proper to charge him at Algiers, and how far your agency is
desired for conveying to him the several papers, for receiving and
paying his drafts to the amount therein permitted, by re-drawing
yourself on our bankers in Amsterdam, who are instructed to honor your
bills, and by acting as a channel of correspondence between us. It has
been some time, however, since we have heard of Admiral Jones. Should
any accident have happened to his life, or should you be unable to
learn where he is, or should distance, refusal to act, or any other
circumstance deprive us of his services on this occasion, or be likely
to produce too great a delay, of which you are to be the judge, you will
then be pleased to send all the papers confided to you for him, to Mr.
Thomas Barclay, our Consul at Morocco, with the letter addressed to him,
which is delivered you open, and by which you will perceive that he is,
in that event, substituted to every intent and purpose in the place
of Admiral Jones. You will be pleased not to pass any of the papers
confided to you on this business, through any post-office.

I have the honor to be, with great and sincere esteem, Sir, your most
obedient, humble servant,

Th: Jefferson.

LETTER CXIII.--TO MR. PINCKNEY, June 14, 1792

TO MR. PINCKNEY.

Philadelphia, June 14, 1792.

Sir,

The United States being now about to establish a mint, it becomes
necessary to ask your assistance in procuring persons to carry on some
parts of it; and to enable you to give it, you must be apprized of some
facts.

Congress, some time ago, authorized the President to