N^o 35. To Major Gen^l Knox Sec^y of War. Legion Ville 20 April 1793. Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 6th instant and have now the pleasure to inform you that we have been in readiness to descend the Ohio since the 13th instant with all the troops and stores at this place; and altho the notice was short such have been the exertions of the Quarter Master General that the boats and every necessary for the transportation were on the spot agreeably to the period mentioned in your letter of the 5th ultimo i.e. the middle of april — We therefore only wait your final orders to descend the river, and which I hope to receive by this post due yesterday — but who will not arrive agreeably to late custom until some time tomorrow — when I expect to be honored with [underline: explicit & full instructions], together with your decision upon the several subjects submitted in my letters of the 22 and and 30th ultimo and 5th instant — I feel anxious and uneasy on account of the military & Quarter Masters Stores and Cloathing for the pending Campaign lest they should not arrive in time at Pittsburgh to precede the Ohio before the water is too low; in fact there is no dependence upon the navigation of this River after the first of May. From a late peany fall of rain the Ohio is at present in a most favorable state for descending it, we are therefore losing a precious opportunity. By the present muster & inspection there are one hundred and forty men reported totally unfit for field duty — and recommended for discharges; however there are about one hundred of those that would answer for Garrison duty: the other forty neither God nor nature ever designed for Soldiers; and I am decidedly of opinion that the officer or officers who inlisted or mustered them ought to be compelled to reimburse the Public for all expences occasioned by bringing into the Legion such miserable & wretched things — The enclosed extract of a letter from General Wilkinson will shew you that the