The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

[A translation of a letter addressed to The President and Congress of the United States of America, was sent down on Friday last by the Senate to the House of Representatives, with the Abbe Faucet's Eulogy, was read as follows:

MR. PRESIDENT,

GENTLEMEN,

Franklin is no more! Franklin—the news has reached our ears.—LIN, the Citizen of the world!—All nations are indebted to him for instruction in every branch of science; they are all bound to participate in the grief occasioned by this common loss. But the Assembly of the Representatives of the Commonalty of our Capital, thinking it their duty, in addition to the general mourning, to pay to his memory a further tribute of honour, have ordered, by a public decree, that the virtues and talents of this great Philosopher should be perpetuated to distant ages, in a public and solemn Eulogy—the first of the kind ever bestowed by our nation on civil worth.

By order of the Assembly, I transmit it to your hands, and with the most lively sensations of pleasure, embrace the opportunity of paying due homage
to a body of men, who not only possesses, but are justly entitled to enjoy the sweets of Liberty.

May the approbation of your Assembly attend as well the present itself, as the fraternal and respectful sentiments, with which I am,

Mr. President, Gentlemen,

Your most obedient,

humble servant,

BENIERE,

Doctor of the Sorbonne, Vice-President of the National Assembly, and President of the Commonalty of Paris.

To The President and Congress of the United States.

[Gallant Allies---Americans receive with gratitude your good wishes, and pray they may be redoubled on your heads.]