United States, March 28th, 1792

Sir,



          Your knowledge of the country northwest
      of the Ohio, and of the resources for an Army in its
      vicinity, added to a full confidence in your
      military character, founded on mature experience,
      induced my nomination of you to the command
      of the troops on the frontier.



          Your desire of rectifying any errors of
      the public opinion, relatively to your conduct,
      by an investigation of a Court of Inquiry, is highly
      laudable, and would be readily complied with,
      were the measure practicable.___ But a total
      deficiency of Officers, in actual service, of compe
      tent rank to form a legal Court, for that pur-
      pose, precludes the power of gratifying your
      wishes on the occasion.



          The intimation of your readiness to
      afford your successor all the information of 
                                              which

which you are capable, although unnecessary for my personal conviction, must be regarded as an additional evidence of the goodness of you heart, and of your attachment to your Country.

             I am Sir,

                  with esteem and regard

                        Your most Obedt. Servt.
               
                             G. Washington

Major General Arthur St. Clair