[Copy] Copy of a letter from the Attorney General of the United States, to the Secretary of War dated Philadelphia Aug: 9. 1793. Sir, In consequence of our arrangement I moved the Supreme Court of the United States on a Tuesday last for a mandamus to be directed to you as Secretary at War, commanding you to put on the Pension List one of those who had been approved by the Judges acting in the character of Commissioners. The decision of one case would have involved every other. But two of the Judges having expressed their disinclination to hear a motion in behalf of a man who had not employed one for that purpose and, I being unwilling to embarrass a great question with little intrusions, it seemed best to waive the motion until some of the invalids themselves should speak to Counsel. To this end I beg leave to suggest the propriety of a letter from your office to such of the invalids, as have been certified to be proper for pensions, and perhaps it may be well to