[undecipherable] 9 augt. [undecipherable] D [C] [Private] Head [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Detroit 29 August 1796 Sir- Lieut. Taylor who I had dispatched with instructions to Cap^t Ballour, the Commandant of Fort [undecipherable: Hind?], respecting certain extra commissaries, returned five days since, with a packet of letters from France to Detroit, & the enclosed letter signed [undecipherable: Boncarites?], which were intercepted at Post Vincennes. The letters from France have no relation to the business of this Country— That from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] bears a questionable complexion, & may serve as a clue to more [undecipherable]. I have had previously instructed [undecipherable] Collot, when speaking of Hamilton he concludes "judge from that in [undecipherable] Gentlemen are not void to the British Government; you must not fail to profit by what I say." The President will recollect whether any such conversation with a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] took place at his [undecipherable] — He will also be able to determine [undecipherable] this letter is actually in the hand writing of [undecipherable] I [undecipherable]. Detroit has in all probability been [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at Massac, before this person being [undecipherable] within one hundred miles of that Post about the [undecipherable] [undecipherable]