Near Drowings Town 29^th Sep^t 1797 There incloses you a copy of my letter of the 22^d Inst: also a copy of a letter from the Brig^r G^l Hamilton to Brig^dier Gen^l Wilkinson dated the [undecipherable] return 24^th [undecipherable] — the Generals [undecipherable] the relation of the [undecipherable] by yesterdays mail. This letter from the [Brig^d G^l] Hamilton [undecipherable] a — you what the President had and no room yet to believe or — that the [frontiers?] — to be insufficient relation to the situation of the [frontiers?] than any- [undecipherable] have not been a [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that being the [undecipherable] to resist [undecipherable] that [went?] under your command [undecipherable] with A. [undecipherable] [blank?] or that there [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [given?] him to take measures [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] in obstacles to the execution of your orders. Knowing themselves too weak on the Mississippi to hold our [undecipherable] were not [undecipherable] to resist [undecipherable] [undecipherable] force — and [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] [undecipherable] they have [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] we [undecipherable] to cause the President to [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] act of his in their [undecipherable] [possession?]. [It?] therefore to be [undecipherable] that you had not [adopted?] more methodically the instructions I sent you. They would have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] have [seen?] the [Government?] [undecipherable] not to proceed further than the [Mississippi?] than [undecipherable] Bluff which appears [unable?] to [stand?] long [undecipherable] by [them?] not yet [undecipherable] upon you by [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. They would have informed you that your [communication?] [undecipherable] the [commandment?] of [Natchez?] is to be