Congress have passed an act for establishing the seat of government at Georgetown, from the year 1800, and in the mean time to remove to Philadelphia.  It is to that place, therefore, that your future letters had better be addressed.  They have still before them the bill for funding the public debts.  That has been hitherto delayed by a question, whether the debts contracted by the particular Slates for general purposes should, at once, be assumed by the General Government.  A developement of circumstances, and more mature consideration, seem to have produced some change of opinion on the subject.  When it was first proposed, a majority was against it.  There is reason to believe, by the complexion of some later votes, that the majority will now be for assuming these debts to a fixed amount.  Twenty-one millions of dollars are proposed.  As soon as this point is settled, the funding bill will pass, and Congress will adjourn.  That adjournment will probably be between the 6th and 13th of August.  They expect it sooner.  I shall then be enabled to inform you, ultimately, on the subject of the French debt, the negotiations for the payment of which will be referred to the executive, and will not be retarded by them an unnecessary moment.  A bill has passed, authorizing the President to raise the salary of a Charge des Affaires to four thousand five hundred dollars, from the first day of July last.  I am authorized by him to inform you, that yours will accordingly be at that rate, and that you will be allowed for gazettes, translating or printing papers, where that shall be necessary, postage, couriers, and necessary aids to poor American sailors, in addition to the salary, and no charge of any other description, except where you may be directed to incur it expressly.  I have thought it would be most agreeable to you to give you precise information, that you may be in no doubt in what manner to state your accounts.  Be pleased to settle your account down to the 1st of July last, and state the balance then due, which will be to be paid out of the former fund.  From that day downwards, a new account must be opened, because a new fund is appropriated to it, from that time.  The expenses for the medals, directed in my letter of April the 30th, must enter into the new account.  As I presume the die will be finished by the time you receive this, I have to desire you will have a medal of gold struck for the Marquis de la Luzerne, and have put to it a chain of three hundred and sixty-five links, each link containing gold to the value of two dollars and a half, or thirteen livres and ten sous.  The links to be of plain wire, so that their workmanship may cost as it were nothing.  The whole will make a present of little more than one thousand dollars, including the medal and chain.  As soon as done, be pleased to forward them by a safe hand to the Marquis de la Luzerne, in the name of the President of the United States, informing him that it is the one spoken of in my letter to him of April the 30th, 1790.  Say nothing to any body of the value of the present, because that will not always be the same, in all cases.  Be so good as to have a second medal of gold struck in the same die, and to send this second, together with the dies, to Philadelphia, by the first safe person who shall be passing; no chain to be sent with this.