The undersigned minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America has the honor of declaring that he left last year at Paris some effects, including clothing, papers, books, silverware, etc., which he had used during his stay in that city; that he sent sometime ago an express named Egberts of Amsterdam to transport those effects to The Hague; and that the said express is now at Brussels with the said effects contained in three trunks. The undersigned entreats Your High Mightinesses to be so kind as to dispatch or grant to him a passport for the said Egberts along with his effects, without payment of duties.1