[146] [undecipherable] [the ways of the Moon?] [Complying with] [undecipherable] Jan 20 1798 I beg before your Excellency that Reasons which have [undecipherable] and appear often in this will have not I now be wrong — or they [affect?] this [incidence?] of [members?] to [persons?] it may not appear [and?] in proper to state the reasons which [would?] [justify?] [any?] conduct, and to request that Congress will — and [Their?] be pleased to honor me with [attention?] and [trouble?] in [examining?] [something?] — [undecipherable] [language?] — the [form?] leaves who had [these?] [opportunities?] [undecipherable] of the war were our [enemies?] [consisted?] of at the [commencement?] of [reason?] — which [showed?] — I have [proposed?] [admitting?] because the [requests?] in all these [relations?] have carefully guarded against [admitting?] the [lost?] hope to the [union?] [where?] one [officer?] [approves?] [results?], and Persons I ought to require did not so much [by the?] [crimes?] of [ourselves?] or what has always been the [virtue?] of [congress?] in the same [case?] — that it would be [unequal?] in [many?] who [understands?] have been in their office only for a few months while [others?] who provided them [have?] [ground?] around [could?] fully [undecipherable] and [being?] [permanent?] take [Comprehensive?] [this?] [time?], but only [temporarily?] — and that [if?] this is [affected?] many [officers?] must be [led?] [into?] any [embarrassment?], with great [public?] [defense?] their more [claiming?] against it as [as?] possible — [The second is,] [undecipherable] having made Promises [in one?] [to?] [one?] were [strangled?] while in [captivity?], and [undecipherable] and a [resolution?] of [Nov?] [14?] [with?] having granted to [a male?] as [was?] led to be [my?] own [entered?] into the same the [possibility?] of [promising?] of [1793?] [lying?] themselves to the [authority?] of their [state?], [paid?] [claiming?] half pay until they were [called into?] their [service?] — many of them [have?] produced to [one?] proper [evidence?] of their compliance with the [terms?] of their [resolve?], and that they [were?]