I am very sensible of the Honour done me by the kind Congratulations of the Magistrates of the City and County of Philadelphia on my safe Return to our Country:

To find it in the full Enjoyment of Peace and Liberty, makes me esteem the Day of my Arrival among the happiest of my Life.

That its present Felicity, in good Laws faithfully executed by a virtuous Magistracy, may be long continued, is one of my most fervent Prayers.