Mons, Bruxelles, Malines, Antwerp, Mordick, and Rotterdam, to the Hague, where I happily found Mr. Adams. He concurred with me at once in opinion, that something must be done, and that we ought to risk ourselves on doing it without instructions, to save the credit of the United States. We foresaw, that before the new government could be adopted, assembled, establish its financial system, get the money into the Treasury, and place it in Europe, considerable time would elapse; that, therefore, we had better provide at once, for the years '88, '89, and '90, in order to place our government at its ease, and our credit in security, during that trying interval. We set out, therefore, by the way of Leyden, for Amsterdam, where we arrived on the 10th. I had prepared an estimate, showing that Florins. There would be necessary for the year '88--531,937-10 '89--538,540 '90--473,540 ------------ Total, 1,544,017-10 Florins. To meet this, the bankers had in hand, 79,268-2-8 and the unsold bonds would yield, 542,800 622,068-2-8 ------- ----------- Leaving a deficit of 921,949-7-4 We proposed then to borrow a million, yielding 920,000 ----------- Which would leave a small deficiency of 1,949-7-4