Baltimore 19 Nov^r 1800 Dear Hamilton. I received your letter of the 13 inst yes- terday evening. Altho I am not pleased at the facts attached to my name having been brought into public view without my consent, I can conceive nevertheless what might have prevented you from requesting it. This supposed reason has weight if the facts could be considered of consequence, still however, be this as it may, in a case where personal feelings are so much concerned I shall expect never to be again treated by a friend in the same manner. The truth is had you asked it, I should not have consented to their publication. The chief will destroy himself fast enough without such exposures. Can it happen otherwise to a man (as I wrote the other day to Wolcott) who, whether sportful, playful, witty, kind, cold, drunk, sober, angry easy stiff, jealous, carless, cautious, confident, alone, or open, is so almost always, in the [underline: wrong time] and to the wrong persons. My great fear is, that while he is destroying himself, he will destroy the government also. Those amongst the federalists in this State, I mean those within my observation, the most anxious for the election of M^r Adams, pretend to consider the publication of your letter rather calculated to distract, than to do good. Col Charles Carroll of Carrollton writes me "I have read M^r Hamiltons pamphlet; the drift of its publication, at this time, I conjecture, was not so much with a view of vindicating his character, as to prevent the electors in Massachussetts from scattering their votes, in order to secure the election of M^r Adams in preference to M^r Pinckney. Ace with whom I