9^th hi I chuse have the pleasure to dine with you to-morrow and bring with me M^rs M^cHenry over whom I am happy to find I retain my ususe nifluence. Permit me to asure you that I chuse always think well of you as a minister, whose wise and prudent conduct, so suitable to the times here, and the American character wice be long esteemed and remembered. M^rs Liston ensures your return to England, will [strikethrough: also] carry with her the good opinion and regards of all those she has favoured with her kind attentions. [strikethrough: also acquaintance] with real [undecipherable] esteem I am D^r Sir your [undecipherable] Ob^t S^t James McHenry 25 May 1800 His Exceny. Rob^t. Liston