Copy of a Letter from the Secretary of War, to His Excellence the Governor of Kentucky, dated Germantown, near Philadelphia, November 9th 1793. Sir, I have the honor to enclose your Excellency a Letter from the Secretary of State, relatively to the designs of four Frenchmen to excite some enterprize against the possessions of Spain on the Mississippi with wich Power the United Sates at peace. To permit such a measure in any of the United States would be a breach of our neutrality and of course involve the 195. United States in the existing war between the belligerent parties, and therefore the enterprize is not to be tolerated in the least degree. The Secretary of State has suggested how this design may be prevented by the usual course of the laws - but if this mode should be ineffectual, I am instructed by the President of the United States to request that your Excellency will use effectual military force to prevent the execution of the plan of the said Frenchmen, or any other persons who may support or abet their designs; for the lawful expenses of which the United States will be responsible. Any proceedings which may take in consequence of the letter from the Secretary of State or of this Letter, you will please report, in order to be submitted to the President of the United States.