The series was afterwards collected and published in a volume, in London, and has been translated into German and French, and extensively circulated on the continent.
Among other labors while at Berlin, Mr.Adams succeeded in forming a treaty of amity and commerce with the Prussian government.

The protracted correspondence with the Prussian commissioners, which resulted in this treaty, involving as it did the rights of neutral commerce, was conducted with consummate ability on the part of Mr.Adams, and received the fullest sanction of the government at home.
Mr.Adams' missions at the Hague and at Berlin, constituted his first step in the intricate paths of diplomacy.

They were accomplished amid the momentous events which convulsed all Europe, at the close of the eighteenth century.

Republican France, exasperated at the machinations of the Allied Sovereigns to destroy its liberties, so recently obtained, was pushing its armies abroad, determined, in self-defence, to kindle the flames of revolution in every kingdom on the Continent.

Great Britain, combined with Austria and other European powers, was using every effort to crush the French democracy, and remove from before the eyes of down-trodden millions an example so dangerous to monarchical institutions.
The star of Napoleon had commenced its ascent, with a suddenness and brightness which startled the imbecile occupants of old thrones.