Payment of the salaries of the foreign Ministers.--Attachment of United States property in France. To the President of Congress. Office of Finance, September 30th, 1784, 501 Services of M. de Lafayette. Advertisement. Philadelphia, October 11th, 1784, 502 Announcing his having made arrangements for redeeming his public engagements and his notes in circulation.--Pledges his personal responsibility for the payment. To the President of Congress. Office of Finance, November 1st, 1784, 502 Enclosing his commission as Superintendent of Finance. THE CORRESPONDENCE OF ROBERT MORRIS, SUPERINTENDENT OF FINANCE. VOL. XII THE CORRESPONDENCE OF ROBERT MORRIS. CORRESPONDENCE CONTINUED. TO M. DE LA LUZERNE. Office of Finance, November 3d, 1781. Sir, Agreeably to my promise, I have the honor to send you a copy of the circular letter, which I lately transmitted to the several States. This will be an additional proof of my desire to draw from among ourselves the necessary resources, and thereby to become truly independent. But the sincerity with which I have always spoken to you, and which I mean to preserve, and which the generous conduct of your Sovereign demands for his servants, that sincerity will not permit me to conceal my sentiments on what is to be expected. The annual expenses of this country may certainly be reduced within narrower bounds, than they have hitherto been; perhaps it will be less than I myself have now an idea of. But still it must be considerable, if we mean, which we certainly do, to make becoming efforts in the common cause. Besides this, it will require a considerable revenue to provide the sinking fund for our public debt. As I consider national credit to be an object of the greatest magnitude and importance, so I think it necessary to bend every possible effort to the establishment and support of it. Provision for our debts is, therefore, the first object, and therefore must take place of every other demand.