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Excerpt from Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the Year 1889
M. Beaumarchais has discovered a great deal to me in conversation on this subject, which Shews what iniquitous means have been used by Mr. Deane to keep me in the dark and get this business settled by secret and indirect means. I shall state the whole to Congress by the first opportunity. At present, I shall only observe that M. Beaumarchais makes it appear that he lent Mr. Deane 30, 000 liv. For some private scheme of trade, and liv. For his pocket, as Mr. Deane pretended, the last of which sums he has not repaid, and probably intended should be charged to the public in M. Beaumarchais general demand, and so pass unnoticed. He lent also liv. To Mr. Carmichael, and at that very time both these Gentlemen were filling his ears with tales about me, and have been very industrious in endeavouring to obtain a payment of his demand at Congress, which neither of them, while they were here, would ever inform Dr. Franklin and myself they believed to be just. Neither those Gentlemen nor Mr. Gerard are, as I conceive, disinterested witnesses in this business. It ought to be in M. Beaumarchais power to clear up the matter without having recourse to such suspicious evidence by the testimony of those who constitute the Company and supplied the money. If such persons exist, their coming forth will decide whether it was public or private money.
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