To the Committee of Foreign Affairs. Paris, June 1st, 1778, 162 Confusion of Mr Deane’s accounts.--Policy of the European powers.--Payment and number of foreign Agents.--British plan of operations in America.--Supplies from Spain.--Necessity of settling the boundary between the territories of Spain and the United States; of regulating port duties, &c.--French naval force delayed. To M. Dumas. Chaillot, June 4th, 1778, 168 Commerce with America. To the Committee of Foreign Affairs. Paris, June 9th, 1778, 169 British naval expedition stopped.--Confusion in Great Britain.--Exchange of prisoners agreed to.--German affairs.--Mr Williams’s accounts.--Appointment of Commercial Agents. To Count de Vergennes. Chaillot, June 14th, 1778, 171 Explanation of the 12th article of the treaty. Count de Vergennes to Arthur Lee. Versailles, June 15th, 1778, 173 To the Committee of Foreign Affairs. Paris, June 15th, 1778, 173 Supplies from ports of France and Spain.--Politics of Germany; of the North.--Embarrassments of Great Britain. To the Committee of Foreign Affairs. Paris, July 1st, 1778, 175 An engagement between a French and English ship; French subjects permitted to fit out privateers. To Count de Florida Blanca. Paris, July 18th, 1778, 176 Enclosing the resolutions of Congress relative to the negotiation of a loan of two millions sterling.--Requests that application may be made to the King of Spain for the same.--Sacrifices of the United States.--Depreciation of paper money. To the Committee of Foreign Affairs. Paris, July 29th, 1778, 178 Engagement between the English and French fleets.--German affairs.--Impracticability of despatching cruisers to the East Indian seas.--The 11th and 12th articles of the treaty to be omitted. James Gardoqui to Arthur Lee. Madrid, August 13th, 1778, 179 Cannot obtain the loan required in Spain. James Gardoqui to Arthur Lee. Madrid, August 20th, 1778, 180 Suggesting the cession of Florida and supply of ship timber to Spain, as a means of obtaining the loan. To the Committee of Foreign Affairs. Paris, August 21st, 1778, 181 Difficulty of obtaining a loan.--M. Holker. To James Gardoqui. Paris, August 27th, 1778, 183 Importance of a loan to the United States.--Peace the natural policy of the United States. To the Committee of Foreign Affairs. Paris, August 31st, 1778, 186 Requesting instructions as to the cession of Florida, and the supply of ship timber to Spain, on condition of supplies of money.