PART II.--LETTERS WRITTEN WHILE IN EUROPE.--The letters included

in this division, relate principally to the objects of his mission to Europe--his efforts to extend the commercial relations of this country with the European nations--the history of particular treaties of commerce--piratical depredations upon our commerce by the Barbary States--our Foreign Debt--our relations generally with Europe--the rise and progress of the French Revolution through its early stages--his views of the Confederation and the new Constitution--the political and social condition of Europe, &c., all interspersed with the reflections by the Author upon every variety of topic, literary, scientific, social, and political.