S^ir. December 7. 1798. The Spaniards having evacuated the Posts on the Mississippi, added to other circumstances, renders it unnecessary to send the Galley on the Stocks for the present from Pittsburg. You will however complete her, and keep her in a situation not to receive injury, and in a state to descend [undecipherable] the Ohio on the shortest notice. Not being precisely informed of the orders left by General Wilkinson, respecting the destination of such Troops, as might arrived at Pittsburg after his departure, and circumstances requiring that those under Captain Miller should remain till Spring, and further orders at Fort Fayett^e or Cincinnati, you will if Captain Miller is at Pittsburg, give him the enclosed letter, and if departed down the Ohio, send it after him by Express. With respect to the order from Isaac Williams, mentioned by M^r Craig in his letter of the 30^th Ultimo, in favour of the Indian who brought his dispatches to the Secretary of War, it must be paid to the Indian who acted for Williams, in this case, as an Express.