Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 4
I wrote you, yesterday1 and enclosed an Invoice of a few articles amount 459:6.1 which with those shipt on board of the Success of 445:17.7 makes 905:3.8 of Course a Ballance in your favr. of 114.16.4 which I shall desire my Brother William to pay you—as I shall go for Petersbourgh soon—and I suppose you had rather have the money at Boston then draw on me at Russia.
All news is now over—Except the King of Sweden, has made a Treaty of Commerce with us.2
Also dated Mar. 4.
Simultaneously with his role as minister to France, Benjamin Franklin was appointed minister plenipotentiary to King Gustaf III of Sweden. With the Swedish ambassador in France, Count Gustaf Philip Creutz, Franklin negotiated a Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the two nations, which was signed on Apr. 3, 1783, although it “had no appreciable impact on either nation during the 1780s” (Mary A. Giunta, ed., Documents of the Emerging Nation: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1775–1789 [Wilmington, Del., 1998], 212).