[Address panel, upper left]: M^r [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Stamp]: Received from State Dep[t] No. [undecipherable] [Middle panel]: 3/1 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Bottom panel]: [undecipherable] Sir Lancaster 26^th October 1794 [Stamp: Received from State Dep[t] No. [undecipherable]] At Ten o'Clock this morning Imediately after the arrival of his Excellency the President at my house I was favoured with yours of the Twenty fourth to which I am now [undecipherable] replying Imediately in order to obviate the Misrepresentation of the report which has been made to M^r Randolph, respecting the detention of letters Send forward from the City to my care, and [undecipherable] with the great [undecipherable] M^r D[undecipherable] that [undecipherable] the Dispatches which came by M^r [undecipherable] on Thursday [undecipherable] which should for want of horse & rider could not be forwarded untill the next morning, No Dispatches were detained two hours after their arrival [undecipherable] and that not a Single letter that came from the City was Kept back, So that let who watches the author of the report [undecipherable] not help calling him an [undecipherable] [undecipherable], thus as it is here a Number of letters [undecipherable] belonging to those come from the army and are for persons in different [undecipherable] of the country which I have the trouble of forwarding as opportunity offers. This I am [undecipherable] will relieve M^r Randolphs [undecipherable] and your very good [undecipherable]. Put me no more [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to M^r Randolphs Generosity in forwarding all letters to the army which are brought to his office[undecipherable] then as Sir Your Very Humble Servant Matthew Slough Col. Samuel Hodgson