[24 June 1799 John Dennis.] Hom^ble James Mc Henry Esquire Philadelphia D^r Sir, 2 Prince's-Anne June 24^th Enclosed I have transmitted to you an application for a Captaincy in the army by a Doct. Newton together with a letter of Recommendation to me in his favour. This gentleman lives pretty remote from me & I have no further acquaintance with him. Tho — I have [undecipherable] to the enclosed letter. These gentleman are however all of them been of [undecipherable] ability & Entitled to Confidence — I am pretty well satisfied however his application comes too late, unless a further addition is contemplated to our [undecipherable: probable reading "Military"] force. I am at present [undecipherable] of — Should there be a vacancy you will judge of the [undecipherable] of the Documents to entitle this [undecipherable] to the office for which he applies — These Gentlemen as well as the Applicant are all good Federalists — We are all [undecipherable] very much in the [undecipherable] here, relative to our foreign relations & should be glad to hear something further [undecipherable] the contemplated [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable], which I sincerely hope will never take place — If the pressure of your official [undecipherable] be not too great, I should be [undecipherable] much pleased to hear from you — I am very happy to find that the heterogeneous & unaccountable Coalition (according to democratic ideas) of Dutch, [undecipherable] and English & Germans, against the [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] of the human race is likely to terminate in [undecipherable] the [undecipherable], Belgians & Italians from the embraces of their dear [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] to our still more [undecipherable] to see the [undecipherable] obstinate stiff necked Directory, being [undecipherable] to calculate not the [underline: Consequences] of our [underline: Condescension] & our [underline: former] [underline: Tyrants], according to [undecipherable: probable reading "Citizen"] [undecipherable] — But of our want of Condescension to those miserable [undecipherable] Conditions to which they wished to subject us & the consequences resulting to themselves, have a repetition of our pacific Overtures — Since the Virginia Elections I have had nothing to [undecipherable] when any [undecipherable] behavior, but the [undecipherable] of old M^r [undecipherable: probable reading "McKean"]'s Election to the chief [undecipherable] of Pennsylvania, O surely it is enough to [undecipherable] from the Generals, but there is only a possibility, that a man notorious [undecipherable] abandoned to all public & private virtues be called at those haughty, insolent, tyrannical [undecipherable] abroad, should even be thought of even by [undecipherable] & limited [undecipherable] Irishmen to be the Governor of such a State. Please to present my Respects to M^rs Mc Henry & believe me to be with the sincerest of the most [undecipherable] respect & Esteem, your [undecipherable] James Mc Henry Esq^r John Dennis