Dear Sir I have been debar'd from your Answ: — I have momentarily endeavour'd that you would put in execution certain threats which were made in presence of Col. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Butte on the 20 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] & that after you had done justice to your office, by having me arrested on a [undecipherable] by a Court Martial, that you wou'd then punish me personally [undecipherable] as I have had some proofs of the treachery of your memory — I fear this circumstance has also been forgotten. Being conscious that I have been grossly injurted by you and that every exertion has been made on your part to degrade and injure me, and that you have been instigated by malice and a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] alone, and not for your [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by an anxiety for the public good — these [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on you in the most peremptory manner for immediate satisfaction — Captain Henry [undecipherable: Cole] make the necessary arrangements with —— [undecipherable: signature] 2^d Apr 1799 William Simmons Esq^r