Philadelphia, 5^th September 1797 [undecipherable] is the interest of all [undecipherable] issues now rarely experienced. With [undecipherable] agony and anguish learn therefore the latter to [undecipherable] that it is too valuable to sport [undecipherable] and upon a moment's reflection [undecipherable] to occasion to [undecipherable] it [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] is indispensably necessary [undecipherable] retire into the Country until it is subsided — set off to morrow morning. I am Sir [undecipherable] ob[edien]t Serv[an]t [undecipherable signature] [Samuel Hodgdon &c. [undecipherable] Philadelphia in]