I thank you for yours of the 4th of June. I very sincerely condole with you in the painfull state of your health. The State of Infirmity is the lot of life.

But I congratulate with you, that you will see the fruits of liberty diffused thro Nations of Mankind. The Rights of Mankind to Liberty and free government are now acknowledged as of Divine origin. The revolution in France takes it origin from British principles of liberty planted in america, and by them carried into an absolute monarchy, which, by the power of reason, is now, without arms, subjected to the dominion of reason, against all the pride and usurpation of Crowns and sceptres, and military tyrants. Pure and exalted reason is now rising out of the ashes of ignorance[,] oppression and slavery, to universal empire in the natural and in the moral world. Caelo fulmen, Sceptrumque tyrannis.

I hope our two Countries, which in origin and principle are but one, will again be joined in perpetual friendship and intercourse, as they are in original consanguinity, and that the universal emancipation of mankind from every species of tyranny and slavery over the bodies or the minds of men, will be the blessed fruit of our united principles, and the final energy of all our labours.

God bless you for ever. Your most sincere and affectionate friend