We have at last the satisfaction of seeing the completed version of the medal we had planned and dedicated to the noble and powerful lords of the States of Friesland.

We informed your excellency of the aim and content of this medal in our announcement of 8 May of last year, of which your excellency was kind enough to include a translation in the collection of documents concerning North America published by your excellency.1

We respectfully ask your excellency if we may present him with two of the medals, in case you would like to offer one to the Congress of the thirteen United States of America.2

In the meantime we are delighted to see that the states of all the other provinces, and consequently of the whole republic, have followed the example of the States of Friesland in recognizing the freedom and independence of America. This recognition, combined with your excellency's good offices, already has led to the felicitous result of a treaty of amity and commerce being concluded between our two nations, thereby establishing a foundation for mutual prosperity and well-being.

We have the honor to congratulate your excellency on this development and to offer our heartfelt wish that your excellency's important work in the ongoing peace conferences will meet with equal success, to the end that the great and courageous nation that honors your excellency with its trust soon obtains, as recompense for its own valor and constancy, a glorious and durable peace, and that it may subsequently so increase in glory and might as to strike terror into tyrants and usurpers and be a constant refuge for the oppressed. May almighty God bestow his blessing on these wishes and these prayers!

We take the liberty of commending ourselves to your excellency's goodwill and being, with the most profound respect, sir, your very humble and 461very obedient servants, the members of the Société Bourgeoise of Leeuwarden, founded in Leeuwarden under the motto “With Liberty and Zeal,” and for all