Your return to Pennsylvania I anticipated as a great benefit to that State, and your being now seated at the head of the Government was favorable to that opinion as, without a compliment, I know of no administration so probable to restore tranquility as yours, for obvious reasons, and that you may be the happy instrument, is my most sincere desire.

Your safe arrival to your native land, and the benefit your Country might derive from your residence in it, as well as from personal regard, were motives to secret congratulations at the earliest period. I now have the honor to offer them, when the present season has put a period to my incessant fatigue in improvements here, which have hitherto prevented. With my best wishes that the peaceful shade of the Evening of your days may afford you a comfortable retreat from scenes less eligible at your time of life, although honorable to you, and very beneficial to the public I have the honor to be Sir Your most obedient and very humble Servant