[undecipherable: probable reading N.S. March 14. 179—] Gen^l Hamilton [remainder of page largely undecipherable due to damage and heavy ink obscuring text — partial tabular or columnar text visible but not legible] [undecipherable address line] ...enclosed you have a copy of a letter from Captain [undecipherable] Frazer dated 9^th [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the arrest he is now under, together with a copy of the charges exhibited against him Not knowing that the whole of the circum- stances detailed in the enclosed papers may have come under your cognizance, I have [undecipherable] best to communicate them, and to [undecipherable] you to give such relief in the [undecipherable] as [undecipherable] [undecipherable] be proper and compatible with [undecipherable] state of the parties. I am the more [undecipherable] [undecipherable closing] [undecipherable signature] [Gen^l Hamilton]