Sir Lancaster. Nov^r 8^th 1794. a more wretched carriage, and horses, were never imposed on any person, Than the man in philadelphia, hired to you to convey me to Fort Pitt — Bender. That the horses detained me upwards of 46 hours on the road, by travelling at every stage we stop'd [undecipherable] The carriage, about mid way, be tween philadelphia, and this place broke down, and unless properly repaired, is unfit for another Service — one of the hired horses would not draw at all, after the first day, and had I not had in his place one of those your [undecipherable] me with — we should never have got to this place — The horses also supplied to me for riding are unfit for that purpose — being quite unable to bear my weight — after the carriage gave way I had recourse to the horses, and found them not only deficient in Strength, but dangerously unsure in their Gaits — For these reasons I shall discharge the Carriage and hired horses here, and leave also those furnished on public acct, with Mr. Slough from whom I shall receive a perfectly new apparatus, for proceeding on my Journey — and inform the Secretary of State of my new arrangements, and the necessity which caused me to make them — The driver, poor fellow, is unhappy from a fear, that he may be censured. In justice Therefore to him, I must say, that he has done his duty, and that none of the disasters, which have happened are imputable to him — I am y^r most ob^t Ser^t Ja^s Innes.