War department March 2^d 1799 Sir. I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 4 ^th and 17 February Utt^o. all of which came to hand on the 2^d instant. In my [strikethrough: letter] to you of the 11^th ultimo I mentioned my extreme regret at not being able to have forwarded as early as I would have wished the clothing for your troops; which was owing partly to the failure of the Contractor in [undecipherable] the necessary guarantees and partly to the very early stoppage of the navigation of the River Delaware. I trust they have long before this have been received, as M^r. Hodgdon informs they were shipped on the 7^th February on board the Schooner Sally Sylvanus Church Master, and consigned to John Habersham Esq^r