[Endorsement: Col° H Sherburne / 7 March 1790] Newport. March 7^th 1790 Dear Sir, Your kind favours of the 21^st Ulto came safe to hand — I beg you to accept my warmest thanks for your friendship, in my application to the President of the United States. Last evening our State Convention after a Session of five days, rose, without taking the Question, upon the adopting or rejecting the Constitution of the United States, and have adjourned themselves to the 21^st of May next then to meet in Newport. This Extraordinary Step was warmly opposed, but without effect; Luxury, Debt, [undecipherable], and every other [undecipherable] [undecipherable] was lost on us, [undecipherable] purpose. The grand Aim of our Anti party by postponing this Business is to [undecipherable] Strengthen in the State Government (which I believe will be the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable]) whereby they expect to have Sufficient Strength in the Legislature to make the [undecipherable] their kind of Creatures to represent this State in the Senate of the United States, and thereby have Sufficient Influence to establish such of their Friends in Office as will best [undecipherable] their purpose, seeing [undecipherable] is taking by us to [undecipherable] their design, and from present Appearances I am warranted to say we shall be able to Obtain a Majority in the State Legislature. The Convention in Order to [cover?] their design and keep in with the Ignorant, have by a Committee of their Body reported a Number of Articles and a Bill of Rights, all of which the Constitution has provided for. Likewise Nineteen Amendments to the Constitution, principally taken from New York, Massachusetts, and North Carolina, this Notable performance they have ordered printed and sent to the several Towns in the State for the Information of the people respecting [them?]. This Cabal in coming to their Iniquity will be put in a true light, and that advantage which they expect to derive therefrom will be turned to their Injury. [undecipherable] you [undecipherable] which relate the proceedings of the late Convention. There are many [undecipherable] deliverances [undecipherable] from a set of Men whose great Object is to destroy good Government, is the [undecipherable] that of, Dear Sir, Your most obt [undecipherable] H. Sherburne