Happy in this opportunity of presenting to you this united testimony of respect and veneration for your royal Master, I pray you to believe, that I enjoy the highest satisfaction in having such an occasion of manifesting to your Excellency the very particular pleasure I feel in every event, which affects the happiness of his Most Christian Majesty, especially in one which is so interesting and important to his domestic felicity and that of his people. I have the honor to be, Sir, &c. GEORGE WASHINGTON. * * * * * ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON TO M. DE LA LUZERNE. Office of Foreign Affairs, June 7th, 1782. Sir, I have the honor to enclose you an account of the moneys received by Baron de Kalb and Lieutenant Colonel La Radiere, as extracted from the Paymaster's books. By this it will appear, that both have received more than the amount of their pay, even if the depreciation is allowed. If their friends have furnished you with vouchers to account for the expenditure of still further sums upon the public account, the whole, when stated, will be liquidated at the treasury offices, and the balance paid. I have applied to Congress for direction on the subject of the Baron de Holzendorff, though it would appear to me, that if he had received the thousand dollars directed to be paid him, there can be nothing further due to him, since the resolution itself implies, that there would probably be a balance to be repaid in bills of exchange. You must see, Sir, the extreme difficulty of settling these accounts, unless the gentlemen, who have demands, will be at the trouble of stating their accounts precisely, and produce vouchers for the money, which has passed through their hands. This is never dispensed with in the case of our own citizens. I shall, however, do myself the honor to lay before you the determination of Congress in this case. I have written to Mr Morris on the subject of the interest due on the loan office certificates, and shall transmit to you his answer as soon as I shall receive it. I enclose for your perusal a very extraordinary letter from Mr Deane to Governor Trumbull, together with his reply, which was unanimously approved by the Legislature of Connecticut. You will please return them after you have read, or, if you think proper, taken copies of them. I have the honor to be, &c. ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON. * * * * * ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON TO M. DE LA LUZERNE. Office of Foreign Affairs, June 9th, 1782. Sir,