Produced by David Edwards, Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber's Note: Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. Small type is used to indicate the rules and practices peculiar to the Senate. Small type is denoted by $dollar signs$. Proper nouns have been left unchanged, except to correct obvious printer's errors as indicated by inconsistencies in the nearby text. Variant spellings and accents in Latin, French, Spanish, Italian quotes were left as printed unless obvious nearby differences indicated printer's errors. On page 273, "numbers were first called on to declare their numbers" should possibly be "members were first called on to declare their numbers". In the Index entry 'Existing treaties with France', there is a reference to a (non-existent) page 651 in Volume iii. THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON: BEING HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, REPORTS, MESSAGES, ADDRESSES, AND OTHER WRITINGS, OFFICIAL AND PRIVATE. PUBLISHED BY THE ORDER OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS ON THE LIBRARY, FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS, DEPOSITED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES, TABLES OF CONTENTS, AND A COPIOUS INDEX TO EACH VOLUME, AS WELL AS A GENERAL INDEX TO THE WHOLE, BY THE EDITOR H. A. WASHINGTON. VOL. IX. NEW YORK: H. W. DERBY, 625 BROADWAY. 1861. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by TAYLOR & MAURY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Columbia. STEREOTYPED BY THOMAS R. SMITH. 82 & 84 Beekman Street. CONTENTS OF VOL. IX. BOOK IV.--PART IV. PARLIAMENTARY MANUAL 3 BOOK IV.--PART V. THE ANAS 87 BOOK IV.--PART VI. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS 212 1. Extract from Diary relative to invasion of Virginia in 1780, 1781 p. 212. 2. Memorandum relative to invasion of Virginia in 1780, 1781, 220. 3. Instructions to the Ministers Plenipotentiary appointed to negotiate treaties of peace with the European nations, 1784, 226. 4. Report of a conference with the Count de Vergennes on the subject of the commerce of the U. States with France, 230. 5. Answers of Mr. Jefferson, to questions propounded to him by M. de Meusnier, 244. 6. Answers to propositions propounded by M. de Meusnier, Jan. 24, 1786, 282. 7. Notes on M. Soulé's Work, 293.