[M^r Samuel Ogden 18 Merchant Delans[undecipherable] [post paid] [prepaid] [undecipherable] Hoppe Trenton [In the archives] [His Exchange Indign.] London 29 June 1789] Stephen Sayre London 29^th June 1789 Dear Sir I take the liberty of writing to you, lest my letter directly to General Knox may be stop'd under mean suspicions. I therefore request of you, to show him this Letter, — Let him suppose it address'd to himself — It is to remind him as to some former Letters, he has not yet answer'd. [underline: I am still dispos'd to consider myself worthy Reply] — holding the rank of a Gentleman entitles me to one — I hope he will deign to converse with the President, on the subject of my former Letters, & that I shall, at last, be honor'd with a decisive answer — Col^o Miranda dined with me, two days since, & the day after his return from Paris. His prejudices are still the same against the French Nation, & their manners — He has however, travel'd to great advantage — nothing has escaped his [underline: penetration] — not even the Empress of all the Russias, as I believe — a mortifying Declaration for me to make, who was 21 months in her Capitals, without ever making myself acquainted with the internal parts of [underline: her] [underline: extensive & well known Dominions] — My vanity furnishes a reason for this superior good fortune — He speaks French well — I spoke it ill. I do not admit his figure, or his address, where a woman is to decide, to be very clearly on his side — But seriously, he has such Letters, to all her Ambassadors, as no other man ever received from a Crown'd Head — they command every thing he may wish or desire. He talks of returning to Russia — I would never have left it, under the same circumstances, for I am fool enough to get in Love, when met with favour. I am now more a Banker in my old Situation, Oxford Street — I repent ever having left it. Yet my own Country is dearer to me, than to half those who, profess so great a love for it — If I have opportunity I will give proofs of this assertion — I am, with the greatest Respect your most ob^t Ser Stephen Sayre