Your good Brother Samuel and my self have been long engag’d by our common Friend, Dr. Ingenhausz, Physician to the Emperor, in endeavouring to collect for him some scatter’d Property that he has in these States. Before you Brother left us, we agreed to request you to settle the Dr’s Account with Mr. John Williams of Boston, and to receive what may be due to the Dr. from him. For this purpose I send you enclos’d a Letter from the Doctor with one from my self to him; and I hope the Business will not give you much Trouble.

Your Friends here, and particularly myself are much oblig’d by your Accounts of the Proceedings of the Convention. The Opposition given, more or less, in every State, to the propos’d Constitution, from a Jealousy of Power, strengthens an Opinion of mine, that America is too enlighten’d to be enslav’d, and that the Happiness of its People is less in danger from an Excess of Power in the Governors, than from the Defect of due Obedience, even to their own good Laws, in the Governed. With great Esteem and Affection, I am, My dear Friend, Yours most sincerely