I had the honor last evening to receive your Excelly.’s letter of the 7th. with the several papers enclosed.

Ever since the commencement of this unnatural War, my conduct has borne invariable testimony against those inhuman excesses, which in too many instances, have marked its various progress.

With respect to a late transaction, to which I presume your Excelly. alludes, I have already expressed my fixed resolution—a resolution formed on the most mature deliberation, and from which I shall not recede.

I have to inform your Excelly. that your request of a passport for Mr. Morgan to go to Philadelphia will be conveyed to Congress by the earliest opportunity—And you may rest assured, that I will embrace the first moment I have it in my power, to communicate to you, their determination thereon.

Many inconveniences and disorders having arisen from an improper admission of flags at various posts of the two Armies, which have given rise to complaints on both sides; to prevent abuses in future, and for the convenience of communication, I have concluded to receive all Flags from within your lines, at the Post of Dobbs’s ferry, and no where else, so long as the Head Quarters of the two Armies remain as at present. I have the Honor to be Your Excellency’s &c. &c.