I believe that nothing less than a Regard for Truth would induce me to make remarks on the President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennslyvanias letter to the Governor of Virginia in answer to thee one thou was pleased to give me to him on account of my Complaint for being confined in their hospital which there was so kind as Read to me, And I confess that when I delivered him there he showed every mark of respect to it as well as to my request that he would not answer it or pay regard to Complaints of any Persons however dignified in Church or State without hearing us face to face, that I wished on which account tho I suffered such abuse and Insult as would exceed the bounds of a Letter to relate I never complained to him till he sent me a note to see him the 15th. July when I waited on him the 15th. July at the hour appointed, and when contrary to the terms that he had acknowledged right he refused to tell me who were my accusers, but as he obscures in mild terms told me the complaints which in such terms as I remember told him were false but that to answer to anonymous authors I looked upon as beating the air, However a highly related the matter in dispute which he sumed naturally to hear and be satisfied with and as if to put, the affair out of the power of misapprehension he said so then what you want is to have the matter settled according to the Rules of their own Society I told him yet, How then could I suppose that he would betray me so soon as the 7th March when I was seized after having been at New York and agreed to go on condition of being allowed to call on him expecting Protection otherways I believe I could been rescued, when He came to the door and coolly told me there was great complaints and when I asked him who from he said they were publikly notorious and that he could do nothing for me & He mentions several of the Heads of the Society of Quakers came to him, the Quakers Writings aboundantly shows that they acknowledge no more than one head of course those he mentions must at least be two headed monsters which if he would name I doubt not but I should be enabled to take off that my Confinement in the Hospital was obtained as a favour by my Friends another name for the Tyrants, suffice it to say that the cause of both was unjust except thou would chuse to [hear?] contientous which will require great part of at [time], I hope however thou will remember that the Tender mercies of the Wicked are Cruel more so than death, that their pretended Friendship for me and my Family is of that stamp because if I be guilty of a Breach of the Peace and suffer according to Law [hecon?] I am not Injured, noring family in comparison to what they now are, Insanity being accounted Hereditory.

If the Physicians of the Hospital having even it under their hands that I am really Insane I think it will appear that they have been fooled by an Impudent air Balloon a Quaker Quack Doctor for I do think they never spoke to me or me to them.

If the President had mentioned the Descriptions of my Letters which mark stongly my Insanity I would have showed the Copys but I apprehend he has been Imposed upon on that shore also, I remember when A school Boy that my Fellows would say tho the Quakers will not swear they will Lie which I took to be a Reflection on the Society but I have experienced the Philadelphia Quakers to be Imprudent Liars indeed and tho the President is pleased to say he knows not what I mean by the term I yet think that disturbing any Religious Society with which he accused me is Horrid.

By the help of a Dictionary I found out the meanings of Excentric Conduct with which he accuses me but do not think he had any cause to disregard thy Letter on that account except my behaviour being founded on Truth and that of my Pretended Friends on falsehood.

The President is pleased to say yet as often as I have seen him he discoursed rationally and then mentions the effect of a few Glasses of Wine on some constitutions what truly he did not try it on mine rather than judge me contrary to his own knowledge—I will allow that it would show Insanity had supposed he got my Petition to him of 21st. Oct last but had he when sent him the copy applyed to the managers of the Hospital and me to enquire into the matter what Civil Fortunes it might prevented me would expect the bounds of a Letter to relate.

I Beseech thee to take such measures as well secure me from being taken to their Hospital as an Escaped Patient and for my Protection in every Lawful means I may use for attaining a just settlement of the Dispute as thou may think right which I believe will contribute to thy own Peace and am with great Deference thy Peaceable Friend & Subject