[Extract] H.C. & South Carolina Philadelphia 10 May 1794 After sundry matters about the fort &c on Muskingum river — the Genl proceeds — I am extremely anxious that it sh^d be completed in the course of the year, although my heart fears that I shall not be able to go there this Summer. The Ness Corps of Artillery, the frigates, the fortifications, all newly burdenly added to my former employments together with the incessant application indispensibly required by the political state of affairs, in which I have more share than I am well qualified for form to a cloud which almost obscures any prospect of getting away in any thing like due Season. I cannot leave my Situation in this critical State of affairs. The Service of my whole military and political life would be lost in the opinion of those who I esteem in no degree to form a justification for my quitting at this crisis. I therefore must stay until the storm shall have passed or I be wrecked [XXXV-103] [2858] [812]