[undecipherable] My Dear Sir Col Stevens tells me [he has] exhausted the money you [undecipherable] on preliminary [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] it is in debt with [undecipherable] & likely to be compelled [to dismiss] workmen [undecipherable] Such a State [of] things is hurtful to the [public undecipherable] [injurious?] to the Administration & [undecipherable] thence — It ought to be [undecipherable] if possible — [undecipherable] Stevens [undecipherable] [has] been taken to [undecipherable] alarm him — & he fears [that] how has some affect. [I am] to here [undecipherable] I think it [undecipherable] that I have the most [undecipherable] [Gen. [undecipherable] respecting M. Stevens [undecipherable]] James McHenry Esq^r [undecipherable] Trenton