I beg Leave to transmit to Your Excellency a Copy of my Letter to John Dean Esqr. Member of the Supreme executive Council, to which I have received no Answer from the Gentleman, except what he told me once, en passant, that he would shortly call on my or give an Answer. In the mean while Mr. Clause insists that I shall do my duty as a Magistrate: Which I am willing to do, if I may, without committing a Breach of Privilege—For I find nothing in the Constitution of this Commonwealth to the purpose of giving Protection to Members of the supreme executive Council against their Creditors, and all that seems to stand in my way is an antiquated Law of Pennsylvania 4th of Queen Anne. An Act about Arrests and making Debtors “pay by Servitude” The benefit of which Act, I am confident, never was or ever will be claimed by any Gentleman of Education and in Office.

However in the Dilemma I now stand I will rather take from a single member of Council a Contempt for my Office of a Justice of the Peace than become guilty of a Contempt or Breach of Privilege of the Honorable the supreme executive Council from whom I hold my Commission and shall be highly obliged to Your Excellency, if You, in Council, will be pleased to favour me with any Order or Direction on the Subject. I am with great respect Sir Your Excellencys most obedient humble Servant