Cincinnati February the [7]^th 179[3] Very dear Sir, [archival stamp: Bur. Rolls / Nov. 1 / R.G. 107/86] last night I had this pleasure to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Two [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] already participating in the [undecipherable], my Friends and Community I [undecipherable] with signal Satisfaction that M^r. [undecipherable] had given [undecipherable] [undecipherable] my Solicitations were most cordially presented thereupon — I am pleased that the [undecipherable] Concern [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] you [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as are the [undecipherable] to promote your [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as I could make — The [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable: Big?] River has relieved from a Sort of [undecipherable] as you [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the necessity of [undecipherable] remove before this can reach you — [undecipherable] Pickering whom I [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and respects [undecipherable] I certainly notice of [undecipherable] and the [undecipherable] doing duty [undecipherable] [undecipherable] made with him — I am flattered by the [undecipherable] (more from you) [undecipherable] my late Admin- istration of this Government has given great Satisf- [undecipherable] but the [undecipherable], I have come from him office is [undecipherable] it — and between ourselves I assure you that in the Business to which you have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] made exceedingly great incomprehensible Fatigue and no inconsiderable [undecipherable] of Hazard — Sickness was the result which had well nigh brought me into the grave — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] you have promised — in the Multiplying of your Concerns some of them have [undecipherable] you and which it was my desire when I left Philadelphia should come on as soon as Trans- portation or Carriage could be had upon rea[undecipherable] [undecipherable] I beg you [undecipherable] to Assist [undecipherable] [undecipherable] one two Thermometers that correspond — Governor St Clairs reappointment is a [undecipherable] matter that I had expected much more [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for myself — I believe in the President [undecipherable] I have to lament my own un- happy Situation — [undecipherable] the better [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the Government be here to fight [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Country, in lieu of a War in the France [undecipherable] Spain, as is this [undecipherable] "opposed" with the [undecipherable] Secretary — believe me we [undecipherable] live — [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] it upon the Mississippi — in [undecipherable] a rupture — in our Settlements I receive above the Ohio [undecipherable] there [undecipherable] probably [undecipherable] a Coalition of French Americans [undecipherable] Indians — I have written [undecipherable] Pickering upon this Subject and in the mean while [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Cincinnati you have never yet my Friend improved by the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] me in [undecipherable] for the [undecipherable: Marque?] was [undecipherable] though I have repeatedly asked it adieu W. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] forward the enclosed by a private [undecipherable] [Endorsement on wrapper]: [undecipherable] Cincinnati [undecipherable] Agent — / [undecipherable] Secretary / No 13 March / [undecipherable]