In about two months more, I received, about one third of my demand, in Ingots of silver, & made a trip over to London, & deposited their amount with, Bird, Savage, & Bird; subject to my owners order--I then returned to France, and renewed my claim for the remainder. And after about three months more of attendance, upon the government of France, I received the ballance due me; about 40,000 Crowns--here, probably, you will conclude that my anxiety terminated. But, on the conterary, it was, if posible, increased. I had attained the object of 10 months contention with the french government--I had on hand, a fine voyage for my employers--but the great deficulty now was; how I should git the property out of France. There was a special law, against exporting _specie_ from the country,--exchanges were not to be obtained, in which my confidence coul’d be placed; my vessell gone, so that, investing in goods, was out of the question,--and 40,000 crowns in my sleeping chamber, brought there publickly, at noon day. Thus situated, you may judge, whether my mind could be at ease--however, after having taken the necessary precautionary measures against robery, or theft; I went to work, & purchas^{d} all the _foreign Gold_ I could find; in order to git the value, into a smaller bulk, for the purpose of smuggling it out of France. [Sidenote: Brings Back Gold] After about two months; by my agents, in Paris & Roen, & my own, in Harvre de grace, I succeeded in converting my 40.000 crowns, into less than 3000 peices of gold, prinsapally, Spanis doubloons--this had been done, in as secret a manner, as posible.--I then, went to a village, about 3 miles, & ordered 2 leather belts made, of a sufficient size to hold 8 or 9 hundred peices, and after puting each peice, into a wrapper of silk paper, I stowed my belts, & stiched it, in such a manner, that there could be no motion of the peices--the two belts contained 1700 peices--the remainder, I made up into wads, of about 50 peices each, inveloped in paper, & cloth.