To the Honorable Benjamin Franklin Esquire L. L. D.

The Justices of the City and County of Philadelphia, impressed with a most lively Sense of your great and extraordinary Services to the United States and this State in particular, approach you with the highest Veneration and Respect. We are happy Sir, in having it in our Power sincerely to congratulate you Upon your Return to a City; Whose Inhabitants with Pleasure recognize the numberless Instances of your Wisdom, Patriotism, and Benevolence. Our cordial Aspirations are, That it may please God to dispense to you every Felicity during the Remainder of your Days, And to make Them subservient to the Purposes of this, and the Other States in the Union. In behalf of the Justices