[Copy] Duplicate! War department 14^th May 1791. Sir, On the eleventh of this month I had the satisfaction to receive your favor of the first of [undecipherable]. The fate of General Scott's incursion must have been decided 'ere this, but we are in the dark as to the result. It was reported at Fort Pitt on the seventh that he had succeeded greatly, but the particulars of the report were not transmitted to me. The letters from [undecipherable] General Butler at Fort Pitt are encouraging as to the supplies, the state of the [undecipherable] and the general tranquillity of the frontiers. General Butler has most undoubtedly transmitted more. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] although some things contained therein seem to be [undecipherable], yet there is strong reason to believe that others are true. I transmit you a copy of my letter to General Butler on [undecipherable] [undecipherable] information. The most [undecipherable] means [undecipherable] involving the United States with Great [undecipherable], which must [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] as to [undecipherable] the people of the United States and the world at large in the same [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] of their [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] would [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable], [undecipherable]