I receiv'd your Letter of the 2d Instant by your first Express this Morning at 6. answer'd it, and sent him away immediately. I have just now receiv'd your second Express of the same Date, in which you threaten me with a Proceeding that I apprehend exceedingly imprudent, as it can answer no good End to you, must occasion much Scandal, and be thereby very prejudicial to the Affairs of the Congress. But I cannot therefore consent to suffer their Bills to the Amount of more than a Million accepted and expected, to go back protested for want of this Money.— I have nothing to change in the Answer above-mentioned.— You will however follow your own Judgment (as I must follow mine) and you will take upon your self the Consequences. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant