Time may well have abolished the memory with which you used to honor me, once American interests called you to quit these provinces and travel to other European courts.1 However, even if your reputation had not constantly recalled to mind your merits and your person, it would have been sufficient to remember the gracious welcome that you honored me with here, and the interesting conversations you involved me in, to acknowledge all the benefits I enjoyed.

I pray you accept, sir, my sincere congratulations for the justice your compatriots have lately rendered you in naming you their vice president; it was natural that the respectable citizen who drafted their laws saw to their execution, and this election honors you and them at the same time.

I take advantage of the departure of Mr. Theophile Cazenove from this city to send you this letter.2 He travels to America in order to know it better, and certainly, if he has the honor to know you, he can only add endlessly increasing enlightenment to that which he has already acquired.

I express my heartfelt wishes, sir, for your happiness and your preservation, and for your dear and respectable family, who must be quite happy to hold you in the bosom of glory and peace.

I have the honor to be, with most perfect respect, Mr. Vice President, your most humble and most obedient servant