too, they were hooped together by a common enemy.  This is no longer the case.  Yet a thorough view of the wisdom and rectitude of this assembly disposes me more to hope they will find some means of surmounting the difficulty of their numbers, than to fear that yielding to the unmanageableness of debate in such a crowd, and to the fatigue of the experiment, they may be driven to adopt, in the gross, some one of the many projects which will be proposed.

There is a germ of schism in the pretensions of Paris to form its municipal establishment independently of the authority of the nation.  It has not yet proceeded so far, as to threaten danger.  The occasion does not permit me to send the public papers; but nothing remarkable has taken place in the other parts of Europe.

I have the honor to be, with the most perfect respect and esteem, Sir, your most obedient and most humble servant,

Th:  Jefferson.

LETTER VI.—­TO MR. CARMICHAEL, August 9, 1789

TO MR. CARMICHAEL.

Paris, August 9, 1789.

Dear Sir,

Since your last of March the 27th, I have only written that of May the 3th.  The cause of this long silence, on both parts has been the expectation I communicated to you of embarking for America.  In fact, I have expected permission for this, every hour since the month of March, and therefore always thought that by putting off writing to you a few days, my letter, while it should communicate the occurrences of the day, might be a letter of adieu.  Should my permission now arrive, I should put off my departure till after the equinox.  They write me that my not receiving it, has proceeded from the ceasing of the old government in October last, and the organization of the higher departments in the new, which had not yet taken place when my last letters came away.  Bills had been brought in, for establishing departments of Foreign Affairs, Finance, and War.  The last would certainly be given to General Knox.  Mr. Jay would probably have his choice of the first and second; and it was supposed Hamilton would have that which Mr. Jay declined.  Some thought Mr. Jay would prefer and obtain the head of the law department, for which Wilson would be a competitor.  In such a case, some have supposed C. Thomson would ask the Foreign Affairs.  The Senate and Representatives differed about the title of the President.  The former wanted to style him ’His Highness George Washington, President of the United States, and Protector of their Liberties.’  The latter insisted and prevailed, to give no title but that of office, to wit, ’George Washington, President of the United States.’  I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, for ever disappear from among us, from that moment:  I wish that of Mr. would follow them.  In the impost bill, the Representatives had, by almost an unanimous concurrence, made a difference between nations