Count requests Mr Jay to draw up an outline of the proposed treaties; aids; commercial connexion; treaty of alliance; the Count observes that Congress has done nothing to gratify the King; a person will be appointed to confer further with Mr Jay.--Letter from Mr Jay (St Ildefonso, September 22d, 1781), to the Count de Florida Blanca requesting that some decisive measure be taken in regard to American affairs.--Propositions toward a plan of a treaty, with remarks; the subject of aids will require a separate convention; also the regulation of the mutual conduct of the parties during the war.--Mr Jay's reason for limiting the duration of the offer contained in the sixth proposition, relating to the navigation of the Mississippi; arts of Spain.--Note from the Count de Florida Blanca to Mr Jay, expressing a hope that some progress will soon be made in the consideration of the propositions.--Embarrassments in providing for the payment of the bills.--Mr Harrison's services.--Proposes the sending of an agent to Portugal. To the President of Congress. Madrid, October 18th, 1781, 506 Has protested some of the bills. Robert R. Livingston to John Jay. Philadelphia, November 1st, 1781, 507 Organization of the new executive departments.--The debt of the United States not so large as might have been expected.--British American recruits.--Proposes that Spain should furnish a convoy between Havana and the United States.--Plan for paying the French troops in specie from Havana. Robert R. Livingston to John Jay. Philadelphia, November 28th, 1781, 511 State of military affairs.--The Marquis de la Fayette. THE CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN ADAMS, ONE OF THE COMMISSIONERS TO FRANCE, MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY TO HOLLAND, AND ONE OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR NEGOTIATING THE TREATY OF PEACE. THE CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN ADAMS. CORRESPONDENCE CONTINUED. * * * * * TO ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON. Paris, December 14th, 1782. Sir, There is more matter than time to write at present. The King of Sweden has done the United States great honor in his commission to his Minister here, to treat with them, by inserting, that he had a great desire to form a connexion with States, which had so fully established their independence, and by their wise and gallant conduct so well deserved it; and his Minister desired it might be remembered, that his sovereign was the first who had voluntarily proposed a treaty with us.[1]