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ANNEXED TO NO. IO

Acco't of Cash paid out of Franklin's and Deane's Money on public Account or to persons who are to account with the Public

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Paid Silas Deane for an Express to Nantes
To Capt. Nicholson

M. Deane's Coffee House Bill

To M. Lee to pay for silk stockings.
To M. Deane

To M. Deane

M. Duportal for Instruments pur-
chased to carry to America.

M. Parker by order of B. Franklin to
help M. Hall an American from
England

To M. Israel Potter and Edw'd Grif
fith to bear their Expences to
Nantes being two Prisoners.

6th Bark for M. A. Lee

For Silver Goblet & spoon for M.
Leedwell Lee

Carriage of Muskets

For 2 Tin Cases to send the plan of
Boux's Vessels to America
Miss Chaumont for oats & Hay
for M. Deane's Horses.
I. Dumerick who went afterwards by
the name of Thornton by Order of
the Comm'rs

Paid Wm. Carmichael for his Journey
to Nantes

W. T. Franklin by Order of Comm's
to discharge his Account of Ad-
vances for them

a French Sailor who escaped from
Prison.

M. Kendall a distressed American
Major

M. Deane's Coachman

PASSY, October 4, 1778.

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No.

I

2

The Hon'ble the Congress of the United

To my Salary as one of the Commis-
sioners of the United States at the
Court of France from Oct. 4, 1776.
is 2 years at 11,428 Livres per an-
num, as per Resolve of Congress 6.
Augt., 1779
To my Expenses paid out of private
Purse from the Time of my Ap-
pointment to this Day agreeable to
the Account hereto annexed, N. 2.
allowed by the above mentioned
Resolve of Congress

3 To my Expences paid out of Money
drawn from Banquer By Franklin
& Deane, as per acco't N. 3., Ex-
tracted from joint expence Book
4 To my Expences paid out of money
drawn from Banker by Franklin &
Adams, as per acco't annexed N. 4.
Extracted from joint expences
Book

5 To my half of joint Expences with M.
Dean paid out of monies drawn
from Banker by F. & D. as per ac-
count annexed N. 5. extracted
from joint Expence Book

6 To my half of joint Expences with M.
Adams, paid out of money drawn
from Banker by F. & A. as per
acco't annexed N. 6, extracted
from joint Expences Book

7 To amount of Disbursements out of
private Purse on public Account
and advances to persons who are to
account to Public for the same, as
per account hereto Annexed N. 7.

PASSY, October 4, 1778.

Errors Excepted.

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States in Acco't with B. Franklin.

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66

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No.

By Cash received of Gruel at Nantes,
and accounted for with Solier
Banker. (See for this Solier's Acct.)
By ditto received of do.

By ditto rece'd of do. per my order in
fav'r Hill

By ditto recvd. of do. with Messrs.
Lee & Deane 1.7,201 16. which be-
ing divided I received
By ditto recvd. of do. with Messrs.
Dean & Lee, l.2,400 12. which be-
ing divided I received
By ditto recvd. do. with M. Dean, be-
ing the Bala. of his Acco't, l. 12,858

8. of which I received

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By ditto received at Sundry Times
out of the monies drawn from
Banker by Franklin & Deane,
agreeable to acct. annexed, N. 8.
(Error of 30 Livs. less in this acct).
9 By ditto recvd. at Sundry_Times
from Monies drawn from Banker
By Franklin & Adams, as per acc't
annexed, No.

10 By ditto received from Banker
jointly with M. Deane, which is
equally divided after first deduct-
ing the Payments which have been
made out of said Monies for Public
acco't, or to Persons who are to
acco't to the Public agreable to
the accounts annexed No. 10, B. F.
proportion is

11 By ditto recvd. from Banker jointly
with M. Adams, which is equally
divided after first deducting the
Payments which have been made
out of said monies for the Public,
or to persons who are to acco't
with the Public as per acct. an-
nexed N. II

Balance due

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their time, seemingly as regardless of the shortness of life as if they had been sure of living a month. Happy people! thought I; you are certainly under a wise, just, and mild government, since you have no public grievances to complain of, nor any subject of contention but the perfections and imperfections of foreign music. I turned my head from them to an old gray-headed one, who was single on another leaf, and talking to himself. Being amused with his soliloquy, I put it down in writing, in hopes it will likewise amuse her to whom I am so much indebted for the most pleasing of all amusements, her delicious company and heavenly harmony.

"It was," said he, "the opinion of learned philosophers of our race, who lived and flourished long before my time, that this vast world, the Moulin Joly, could not itself subsist more than eighteen hours; and I think there was some foundation for that opinion, since, by the apparent motion of the great luminary that gives life to all nature, and which in my time has evidently declined considerably towards the ocean at the end of our earth, it must then finish its course, be extinguished in the waters that surround us, and leave the world in cold and darkness, necessarily producing universal death and destruction. I have lived seven of those hours, a great age, being no less than four hundred and twenty minutes of time. How very few of us continue so long! I have seen generations born, flourish, and expire. My present friends are the children and grandchildren of the friends of my youth, who are now, alas, no more! And I must soon follow

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You may remember, my dear friend, that when we lately spent that happy day in the delightful garden and sweet society of the Moulin Joly, I stopped a little in one of our walks, and stayed some time behind the company. We had been shown numberless skeletons of a kind of little fly, called an ephemera, whose successive generations, we were told, were bred and expired within the day. I happened to see a living company of them on a leaf, who appeared to be engaged in conversation. You know I understand all the inferior animal tongues. My too great application to the study of them is the best excuse I can give for the little progress I have made in your charming language. I listened through curiosity to the discourse of these little creatures; but as they, in their national vivacity, spoke three or four together, I could make but little of their conversation. I found, however, by some broken expressions that I heard now and then, they were disputing warmly on the merit of two foreign musicians, one a cousin, the other a moscheto; in which dispute they spent

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