To Charles Thomson. Bath, March 28th, 1784, 520 Term for exchanging ratifications extended.--Extension of the Intercourse Bill.--Trade of the United States with the British West Indies.--Disposition of the English towards America. David Hartley to Henry Laurens. Golden Square, March 26th, 1784, 523 Proposed term for the exchange of ratifications extended. To the President of Congress. London, April 24th, 1784, 524 Proclamation for extending the American intercourse.--Restrictions on the American trade to the West Indies.--Effects of a retaliation.--Opposition to a reconciliation with America.--The King opposed to the late war; willing to receive an Ambassador from the United States.--Plan for the King’s abdication, and rescinding the alienation of the Prince of Wales’s inheritance.--Mischief done by the loyalists in England. To the President of Congress. London, April 30th, 1784, 527 Bitterness in England against the United States.--Mr Deane and others oppose the interests of the United States. THE CORRESPONDENCE OF ARTHUR LEE, COMMISSIONER FROM THE UNITED STATES TO THE COURT OF FRANCE. ARTHUR LEE was a native of Virginia, and born on the 20th of December, 1740. His early education was finished at Eton College, in England, whence he proceeded to Edinburgh, with a view of preparing himself for the medical profession. Having gone through with the usual courses, he took the degree of doctor of medicine. After leaving Edinburgh, he travelled in Holland and Germany, and then returned to Virginia, where he commenced the practice of physic. Not well satisfied with this calling, he resolved to abandon it, and apply himself to the study of the law. He went over to London, and became a student in the Temple, about the year 1766. From this period till the beginning of the Revolution, Arthur Lee held a correspondence with his brothers, and several other persons in America, respecting the political state of things in England, and the transactions relating to the Colonies. He was warmly attached to the interests of his country, and was appointed by the Assembly of Massachusetts to be Agent for that Colony, as successor to Dr Franklin, who left England in the spring of 1775. In December, of the same year, the Committee of Secret Correspondence requested Mr Lee to act as their secret agent in London, and to transmit to them any information, which he might think important. He wrote to the Committee several letters, while acting in this agency.