My dear Sir, Will you permit me to give you the trouble of making an indirect, but precise enquiry, into the alligations of the enclosed letters. I flatter myself that from the vicinity of Elizabeth Town to New York, and the constant intercourse between the two, you will be able to do it without much trouble.
Punishment however ought to light on the principals.
I am glad to hear that Congress are about to remove some of the stumbling blocks which lay in the way of the proposed Convention. It is among the evils, and perhaps is not the smallest, of democratical governments, that the people must feel , before they will see . I am indirectly, and delicately pressed to attend this convention. Several reasons are opposed to it in my mind, and not the least my having declined attending the General Meeting of the Cincinnati, which is to be holden in Philadelphia at the same time, on account of the disrespect it might seem to offer to that Society, to be there on another occasion. A thought however has lately run through my mind, which is attended with embarrassment.