New York May 8^th 1794 Sir I find myself under some difficulty how to write you at a distance, as I can only plead [undecipherable: the] alternative which at present [undecipherable: tends] to support as my apology, and have to interest you about a trifling one — You [undecipherable] some time past [have] [undecipherable: communicated] a number of [undecipherable: tickets] with your [undecipherable: Signature], purporting to be the [undecipherable: final] settlement of account [undecipherable] in the United States [undecipherable: Army] — [undecipherable: This morning] a report has [undecipherable: come] to [undecipherable] that these notes [undecipherable] on the accounts of [undecipherable: Ring or] [undecipherable], Surgeon & [undecipherable: Dr.] that has been submitted from time to time at an exorbitant rate and that such notes will at some future [undecipherable: day] be subject to an examination and [undecipherable: Deduction] made for what appears [undecipherable: a separate] in the charges — You will be aware that such a report [undecipherable: materially] injures the value of all the Officers Notes, [undecipherable: already] at a rate too low, and you will make me happy by enabling me to contradict it from your [undecipherable]