This article amounts to one million and six hundred thousand livres.’ Above all things, it is desirable to hush the foreign officers by payment. Their wants, the nature of their services, their access to high characters, and connections with them, bespeak the reasons for this. I hear also that Mr. Beaumarchais means to make himself heard, if a memorial which he sends by an agent in the present packet is not attended to, as he thinks it ought to be. He called on me with it, and desired me to recommend his case to a decision, and to note in my despatch, that it was the first time he had spoken to me on the subject. This is true, it being the first time I ever saw him; but my recommendations would be as displaced as unnecessary. I assured him Congress would do in that business what justice should require, and their means enable them. The information sent me by Mr. Montgomery from Alicant, of the death of the Dey of Algiers, was not true. I had expressed my doubt of it in my last, when I communicated it. I send herewith the newspapers to this date, and a remonstrance of the parliament, to show you in what language the King can be addressed at this day. I have received no journal of Congress since the beginning of November last, and will thank you for them, if printed. I have the honor to be, with sentiments of the most perfect esteem and respect, Sir, your most obedient and most humble servant, Th: Jefferson. P. S. August 7. The parliament were received yesterday very harshly by the King. He obliged them to register the two edicts for the _impôt territorial_ and stamp tax. When speaking in my letter of the reiterated orders and refusals to register, which passed between the King and parliament, I omitted to insert the King’s answer to a deputation of parliament, which attended him at Versailles. It may serve to show the spirit which exists between them. It was in these words, and these only:--‘_Je vous ferai savoir mes intentions. Allez-vous-en. Qu’on ferme la porte._’ LETTER LXXXII.--TO JOHN CHURCHMAN, August 8, 1787 TO JOHN CHURCHMAN. Paris, August 8, 1787. Sir,