communicate to us from thence any interesting public intelligence you
may be able to obtain, and then to take as early a passage as possible
to Lisbon.

At Lisbon you will deliver the letter with which you are charged for
the Chevalier Pinto, putting on it the address proper to his present
situation. You know the contents of this letter, and will make it the
subject of such conferences with him as may be necessary to obtain our
point of establishing there the diplomatic grade, which alone coincides
with our system, and of insuring its reception and treatment with the
requisite respect. Communicate to us the result of your conferences, and
then proceed to Madrid.

There you will deliver the letters and papers which you have in charge
for Mr. Carmichael, the contents of all which are known to you. Be so
good as to multiply, as much as possible, your conferences with him, in
order to possess him fully of the special matters sketched out in those
papers, and of the state of our affairs in general.

Your stay there will be as long as its objects may require, only taking
care to return to Lisbon by the time you may reasonably expect that our
answers to your letters to be written from Lisbon, may reach that place.
This cannot be earlier than the first or second week of January. These
answers will convey to you the President's further pleasure.

Through the whole of this business, it will be best that you avoid all
suspicion of being on any public business. This need be known only to
the Chevalier Pinto and Mr. Carmichael. The former need not know of your
journey to Madrid, or if it be necessary, he may be made to understand
that it is a journey of curiosity, to fill up the interval between