- THE Private Correspondence OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, LL.D. F.R.S. &c. MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AT THE COURT OF FRANCE, AND FOR THE THEATY OF PEACE AND INDEPENDENCE WITH GREAT BRITAIN, &c. &c. COMPRISING A SERIES OF LETTERS ON MISCELLANEOUS, LITERARY, AND POLITICAL SUBJECTS: WRITTEN BETWEEN THE YEARS 1753 AND 1790; ILLUSTRATING THE Pemoirs of his public and private Life, AND DEVELOPING THE SECRET HISTORY OF HIS POLITICAL TRANSACTIONS AND NEGOCIATIONS. BY HIS GRANDSON IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. SECOND EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS. LONDON: 1817. OF [THIS PART, consisting entirely of Letters and Documents relative to the same subject, namely Overtures and Nego- tiations for Peace and Commerce between Great Britain and the United States of America; it has been deemed unnie- cessary to precede each Letter (as in the former Parts) by a Dr. Franklin to David Hartley, Esq. M. P. Passy, near to David Hartley, Esq. M. P. Peb. 12, to William Pulteney, Esq. M. P. March 15 |