[N^o 18.] Colonel King's Iron Works April 2^d 1797. Dear Truxy I wished to have seen you before I returned to Philadelphia but I am obliges to return to the Session of Congress which commences on the 15 May. Among other things that I wished to have seen you about was the business of Captain Chisholm mentioned to the British Minister last Winter at Philadelphia. I believe but am not quite sure that the plan then talked of will be attempted this fall and if it is attempted it will be in a much larger way than then talked of and if the Indians in all this part I have no doubt but it will succeed. A man of consequence has gone to England about the business and he has her arrangements as I expect I shall myself have a hand on and probably shall be at the head of the business on the part of the British. I am now to understand that it is not quite certain that the Plan will be attempted, Yet you will do well to keep things in a proper train for action in case it should be attempted and to do so will require all your management I say will require all your management because you must take care in whatever you say to Blogue or any body else not to let the plan be interrupted by [undecipherable], Simmons, Myers or any other person in the interest of the United States or Spain. If I accomplish this plan I shall expect to have you and all my Indian country and Indian friends with me but you are now in good business I hope & you do not to hurt the life of it by saying any thing that will hurt you until you again hear from me. Where Captain Chisholm is I do not know, I left him at Philadelphia in March and he frequently visited the Minister and