When application was made to you some Years ago in my favor at the time you were at the Head of the State Department, for a Consular Appointment (that had previously been dispos’d of) you had the goodness to say, that I should not be forgot at some future Period—

I now beg leave to Solicit a Commission of Consul General for the County of Embden & Ports of East Friesland:—This Sovereign State was under the protection of the Dutch Government ’till the Year 1744 when that right was purchased by the King of Prussia; but the Inhabitants still consider themselves Independent & are Governed by Laws enacted by their own Magistrates.—

At present I bear a Commission from Mr. Freidr. Wilh. Lutze Consul at Stettin, directed to his Prussian Majesties Governors, & Officers, Appointing me Consular Agent for this Port & all others of East Friesland.—

I am respectfully Sir Your most Obedient humble Servant