[N^o 146 To Major Gen^t Knox] Legion Ville 22 Feb^y 1793 Sir I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th instant, and agreeably to your request I have directed an exact report of the defects of the howitzers, which, to gain with Capt Sloughs Return of his detachment, I have now the honor to enclose you — In addition to any thing said with respect to the defects of the howitzers — I beg leave again to recapitulate, from my own knowledge's observation, that the metal of which they were made is base in its nature, the reinforce not sufficient, and the trunnions not in due proportion to the caliber — nor is it in the power of art to repair them to be fit for or safe in action — Let me therefore request you to order sixteen new ones of the same caliber, and agreeably to the enclosed proportions, and forward them with all possible dispatch — that will the present shells and fixed ammunition to render useful, and the expence of others saved — & thus shall we have with the Legion the only kind of Artillery that can be transported with care and used with effect against against Savages in mountainous Country covered with woods without the benefit of roads. — I have the honor to be with sincere esteem your most obd^t & very hum^l Serv^t Wayne Will you have the goodness to present my best & profoundest respects to the President of the U.S; with my most sincere wishes that he may see many happy returns of this auspicious day, and which we are just in the act of celebrating — the Hon^ble Maj Gen^d H. Knox Sec^y of war