your nation, I can assure you of every favor which may depend on their
dispositions to cultivate harmony and a good understanding with it.

I have the honor to be, with great esteem, Sir, your most obedient and
most humble servant,

Th: Jefferson.




LETTER XLIX.--TO M. DE PINTO, February 21,1791


TO M. DE PINTO.

Philadelphia, February 21,1791.

Sir,

I have duly received the letter of November the 30th, which your
Excellency did me the honor to write, informing me that her Most
Faithful Majesty had appointed Mr. Freire her minister resident with us,
and stating the difficulty of meeting us in the exchange of a _chargé
des affaires_, the grade proposed on our part. It is foreseen that a
departure from our system in this instance will materially affect our
arrangements with other nations; but the President of the United States
has resolved to give her Majesty this proof of his desire to concur in
whatever may best tend to promote that harmony and perfect friendship,
so interesting to both countries. He has, therefore, appointed Colonel