I think it a long while since I have had the pleasure of hearing from you you will make me very happy at any time by favoring me with a line concerning your health and present situation as to myself I am thank god in very good health and have the pleasure to tell you that my Brother is so and that my good Sister is in a very good way upon the whole tho she has not as yet recovered her former Strength. She is an Invalid with a comfortable prospect that her health will probably grow stronger every season. There is no appearance of the return of any paralytic affection. She is now well enough to receive society at home and to go abroad in a moderate degree. We always join in kind remembrance of you and in the most pacific and friendly dispositions to your Country. As neither my Brother nor myself in Parliament we are out of the way of all influence in politics. I hear of a treaty with france by which we are promised the most liberal encouragement of mutual industry and of perpetual peace between our two Countries. Many other treaties are said to be in negotiation for amity and Commerce with other European States. If they should produce the salutary and pacific effects which are promised by them I shall heartily rejoice. I shall say so far well. Why should not these principles be extended beyond our European sphere I should rejoice to hear of a treaty of Amity and Commerce with our American Rethren. I speak as a by stander. I have not at present any office or trust of public duty. I received a cargo of News papers and pamphlets for which I am to think you. The Method of repayment which you propose viz of my sending similar papers and pamphlets back again is not very easily in my power because I have no constant residence in London and the cases are not equal. If I were to omitt the newspapers by the packet of any one month they would be totally useless to a printer at New York by the next month. I cant undertake for punctuality, whereas for the supply of Congress journals or American papers to me if they come once in 3 months it is sufficient to continue the chain of American thoughts and attentions in me. In case any future events should bring me back to the parliamentary or public line, it may be conveient not totally to have dropt the connexion. That is the whole of the matter. I should prefer the paying of my bill for Congress journals and any newspapers or pamphlets &c. I have desired Mr. Sansom to undertake the payment on my account. Believe me to be whether in or out of Public life a sincere friend to peace between our two and always most affectionately Yours