[Docket: Alexander Hamilton / Sep^r 19. 1794 / 12 p. / war department] War department, Sep^r 19. 179 Sir, I have had the pleasure of receiving your letters of the 16^th instant. The circumstances they announce are upon whole satisfactory. The zeal which has been called forth by the thre attack upon the Magazine at Frederick is in the highest degree comm and is an earnest of the ultimate reliance which may be placed on the ciples of good Order in our Country. As circumstances unfold every they become more and more encouraging. One thousand pair Shoes have been ordered to Frederick To take your Orders. More will follow. I mentioned to you in a former letter the detachment of a tenant and forty men Continentals, destined as an Escort of the Artill the Virginia and Maryland Militia. I have added a Cornel and Dragoons. Lieutenant [undecipherable] commands. You may if you detain these as a part of your brigade though it was the original tion that they should join the companies from which they have bee tached at Bedford.