[62] Dear Sir Annapolis 28^th Nov 1796. I am just now favored with your [undecipherable] of the 25 inst and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I am much obliged to you— You have [undecipherable] no doubt the [undecipherable] address to our [undecipherable] [undecipherable] this [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] days ago— the answer was presented yesterday. [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] address to the People of the [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] will approve the answer, it also glances at the intrigues of foreign [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. Our [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] which was plainly discovered [undecipherable] [undecipherable]- [undecipherable] [undecipherable] may now [undecipherable] [undecipherable] only [undecipherable] [undecipherable] strongly attached to [undecipherable] Federal Gov^t. I need not therefore tell you that [undecipherable] note [undecipherable] the reasons for [undecipherable] his functions, is not at all [undecipherable] with [undecipherable]— [undecipherable] has [undecipherable] orders to resume his functions why not notify the orders to our government. I [undecipherable] to wait for a reply [undecipherable] his last [undecipherable] before [undecipherable] official notice of those orders. Does our Gov[undecipherable] mean to answer his last note, which I intend [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] Enemies of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] administration have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to this measure to have an influence on the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Vice Pres[undecipherable] [undecipherable]. The timing of this note gives room for the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Legislature [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] Assembly [undecipherable] has some [undecipherable] highly [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] address to the People [undecipherable] [undecipherable] some occasion [undecipherable] be taken besides the one already [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the inference [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: probable reading Jefferson] will be elected [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the main act [undecipherable] but as he will be elected by a faction [undecipherable] [undecipherable] he will consider him [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the head of that faction, that the first Magistrate of the American People may the good genius of America avert from us [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] avert [undecipherable] those [undecipherable] [undecipherable] If you have a little leisure, do answer the queries in this letter, if you are at liberty to answer them— I am with sincere regard Your's [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — W: Ch. Carroll of Carrollton [marginalia on left margin, rotated — undecipherable] [28 Nov. 1796 Cha: Carroll of Carrollton] [address panel with postal and filing notations — undecipherable]