I Send you with this a pamphlet at the end of which you will find an account of a remedy which has been lately try’d with Succes in the Sad malady with which you are troubled. I have been led to this by the remarkable relief which it has lately given in this malady to a gentleman among my acquaintance. This Gentleman is Mr. Barrett, Brother in law to Mr. Hollis in Great Ormond Street. After going thro’ more misery than can be express’d and being long confined, he now enjoys a considerable degree of ease and is able to go about in a carriage. Knowing this fact I could not make myself easy without communicating it to you together with an account of the remedy.

I heard a few days ago with particular pleasure of your Safe arrival at Philadelphia, and of the joy with which you were received there. We had been alarmed here by accounts in the public papers of your being taken by an Algerian pirate and carried into Slavery. I was so foolish as to believe this account when I first read it, but a little enquiry and consideration Soon convinced me that the distress it gave me was groundless. May you Still live to be happy in the respect and gratitude of your country, and to bless it by your counsel. It was a mortification to me that I could not make one of the friends who had the pleasure of being with you at Southampton. I return you many thanks for the kind lines you Sent me from thence. They gave me great pleasure.

I received Some time ago from Mr. Vaughn a Diploma constituting me a member of the Philosophical Society at Philadelphia. Will you be so good as to convey to the President and other members of the Society, in whatever manner you may think propoer, my very grateful acknowledgments? I cannot but be impress’d by the honour they have done me; and I hope they will accept my wishes of their increasing credit and prosperity, to which, were it in my power, I should be glad to contribute.

I am sorry for the hostile aspect of affairs between this country and yours. The general cry during the war was, that the colonies were too important to be given up and that our essential interests depended on keeping them. It Seems now to be discover’d among us that they are of no use to us; and the issue may be, that we Shall lose the trade and friendship of an increasing world, and throw it into the Scale of France. Our restraint, however, will do good to the united States Should their effect be to oblige them to strengthen their federal government, to check their rage for trade, and to render them more independent by causing them to find all they want within themselves.

Should you happen to See Mr. Vaughn or any of his family deliver my kind compliments to them. With every respectful Sentiment and the most affectionate regard I am ever yours.