I beg leave to congratulate my ever respectable and honored friend on the events of late establishd between Great Britain and America, which naturally tend to restore both parties to their mutual good humor and that common confidence in each other, which the late fatal and ingloriously unnatural Contest had unhappily for this Country at least interrupted a deplorable Series of Years.

This letter will be put into your Excellencys hands by a Mr. Redford, who is commissioned by Arthur Noble Esqr. a Major in the Irish volunteers a Man of solid property of his own, to commence a correspondence with your Excellency upon a Subject of national Importance. What remains for me to say is that I know Mr. Noble to be a man of strict honour and I believe him to be a Gentleman of substantial Property in Ireland and should have no difficulty to trust him to the extent of £5,000 property on his own account. On this account I recommend to your Excellency Mr. Noble as fully meriting the Consideration and sagacity of Dr. Franklin or the American Lycurgus. Mr. Radford is I am told charged with a letter from Dr. Price confirming what is here said concerning Mr. Noble and that the result may fully answer the expectations of all concerned is the earnest wish of Dear Sir Your most Obliged and most faithful Humble and Obedient Servant