ou, and the body of them shall be sent
as soon as the octavo edition is printed. We are to hold a treaty with
the western Indians in the ensuing month of May, but not under very
hopeful auspices.

You will perceive by the newspapers, a remarkable fall in the price of
our public paper. This is owing chiefly to the extraordinary demand for
the produce of our country, and a temporary scarcity of cash to purchase
it. The merchants holding public paper are obliged to part with it at
any price, to raise money.

I sent you, by the way of London, a dozen plans of the city of
Washington in the federal territory, hoping you would have them
displayed to public view where they would be most seen by those
descriptions of men worthy and likely to be attracted to it. Paris,
Lyons, Rouen, and the sea-port towns of Havre, Nantes, Bordeaux, and
Marseilles, would be proper places to send some of them. I trust to Mr.
Taylor to forward you the newspapers by every direct occasion to France.
These are rare at all times, and especially in the winter: and to
send them through England would cost too much in postage. To these
circumstances, as well, probably, as to some miscarriages, you must
ascribe the length of intervals sometimes experienced in the receipt of
your papers.

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

Th: Jefferson.

LETTER CXXXVI.--TO GOUVERNEUR MORRIS, March 15, 1793

TO GOUVERNEUR MORRIS.

Philadelphia, March 15, 1793.

Dear Sir,

The President has seen with satisfaction, that the Ministers of the
United States in Europe, while they have avoided an useless commitment
of their nation on the subject of the Marquis de la Fayette, have
nevertheless shown themselves attentive to his situation. The interest
which the President himself, and our citizens in general, take in the
welfare of this gentleman, is great and sincere, and will entirely
justify all prudent efforts to serve him. I am therefore to desire, that
you will avail yourself of every opportunity of sounding the way towards
his liberation, of finding out whether those in whose power he is are
very tenacious of him, or insinuating through such channels as you
shall think suitable, the attentions of the government and people of the
United States to this object, and the interest they take in it, and of
procuring his liberation by informal solicitations, if possible. But if
formal ones be n