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service, and had also dispathed an express to iro district on Cumberland rive,r with orders to Brigadier general Robertson to put his brigade in the best possible state of defence.

    The nearness of the time at which Congress

is to meet, who only are invested with the powers of War, will render it essential to sait the result of their deliberations, before offensive measures can be directed; supoosing the information trans- mitted by Governor Blount to be authentic.

    In themean time your exellency will be

the judge wheter any further measures shud be necessary for the defence of the southwestern parts of Virginia, at the expence of the Unions, of the nature and in addition to those before taken.

14th October 1792

    The Presidentof the United States, to whom

I have submitted your Exxcellency's letter of the 4th instant, has directed me to inform you that he does not from his present view of the Subject conceive any emasures, on the part of the Legislature of Virginia necessary for the defence of the frontiers during the ensuing year.

    That he flatters himself, the respcetable

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