Dear Sir,
As there are some particulars in a letter I have lately received
from Mr. Stone at Paris which I think it will give you pleasure to
have, and Mr. Cooper has been so obliging as to translate them for
me, I take the liberty to send them, along with a copy of my
_Dedication_, with the correction that you suggested, and a Note
from the latter with which you favoured me concerning what you did
with respect to the _constitution_, and which is really more than
I had ascribed to you. For almost everything of importance to
political liberty in that instrument was, as it appears to me,
suggested by you, and as this was unknown to myself, and I believe
is so with the world in general, I was unwilling to omit this
opportunity of noticing it.
I shall be glad if you will be so good as to engage any person
sufficiently qualified to draw up such an account of the
_constitutional forms_ of this country as my friends say will be
agreeable to the emperor, and I will transmit it to Mr. Stone.
Not knowing any certain method of sending a letter to France and
presuming that you do I take the liberty to inclose my letter to
Mr. Stone. It is, however, so written that no danger can arise to
him from it, into whatever hands it may fall.
The state of my health, though, I thank God, much improved, will
not permit me to avail myself of your kind invitation to pay you a
visit. Where ever I am, you may depend upon my warmest attachment
and best wishes.