[top of page, cut off text:] to say any thing to the Contractors about Transport [left margin notation:] Col O'Hara Phil^a 22^d November 1793 Sir I have now the pleasure to inform you that an application I have recd the 1000 Dollars you requested, and on monday next they will go forward in charge of an Officer who has also with him a large Sum for the pay of the Army. The bills you advised me you had drawn are generally been presented I presume others of which I had no notice have also met due honor the remainder of your requisition is under consideration, I think it is as easy in the gross appropriation for your Department it will not with year in which case I shall as you direct hold it subject to your draft. I shall keep you advised of every specialist particular that respects you & your Department — we have a pretty well authenticated account of your having a Victory — we hope Victory with compensate the life the Story says you have lost a general of 70 men & 72 waggons laden with Amn and cloathing — Accounts from France place their affairs in a fluttering situation The British & German Auxiliaries have been oblige to retreat from before Brussels with disgrace. A great lot — I to day by a late arrival, we are told that the grand Combined Armies have been forc'd Over the Rhine leaving 180 pieces of Ordnance left — these the particulars I will endeavour to send you in my next — I am Sir your Obt [signed:] Sam^l Hodgdon