Having an opportunity of sending by a private hand I request the favor of you to accept of the remarks on Johnson life of Milton with the areopagita and the tractate of Education. Thomsons preface is here preserved which was omitted in Murdochs Edition of Thomsons works tho published by subscription for a monument! The genuine Spirit of the court discovers its self in the abuse the New Poet Laureat bestows on miltons prose writings and insinuates not obscurely what we may expect from future ministers; the utmost exertions of regal prerogative or in other words of Despotism and as a friend likewise adds all our modern ministers and great men seem to play with the people very much at their ease and will continue so to do till the people are roused to vindicate themselves. Not so in America the Americans have vindicated themselves thanks to heaven and your exertions. May ease and happiness attend you in your return to your native soil and the congratulations of a grateful people tranquilize your age and increase your satisfactions is my earnest wish and desire. I am Dear Sir with the greatest regard and Esteem your obliged humble Servant