I now enclose you my Brother’s letter of July the 10th: which I promised to transmit by this day’s Mail; but being anxious to see a considerable portion of it in print, & solicited by Mr: Dennie to furnish him a copy for the Gazette of the U.S. of Monday next, I could not complete the copy in time for sending, so that I am apprehensive you will not receive it until after the President’s departure—1 If so, you can enclose it to him, with request to return it to me. The writer of this letter, has given an opinion upon the Mission to France, so decided and so energetic, that it should not be suffered to remain as a private deposite.

In a series of essays, which appeared last April, in Brown & Relf’s paper, under the signature of “A friend to his Country,” professing to be “a parallel between the policy, avowed by the British Government as it respected a renewal of negociation for peace with the french republic, & the policy of the American Government on the same subject,” there are facts, sentiments & principles advanced, so correspondent to the opinions in the enclosed letter, that the writer of those essays, may find that reward, credit & consolation, from the comparison, which he never received, in public or in private, at the time they came out. Cold water was thrown upon his well meant zeal, in the first place by the printer, who did not think entirely with the author, and who published the numbers at such long intervals that the thread, and the interest & connection of the subject-matter, were entirely lost, and moreover the 7th: & last number, which contained a recapitulation of the whole & pointed out the inferences, which were intended to be deduced, the Editor’s never published at all— I know that both you & my father noticed the first number of the series, but I did not wish it to be known that I wrote them— 411William Shaw charged me with them and to him I confessed—2 If I could send you the six numbers that were published by a private hand, I would— The design & scope of the whole was to vindicate the mission to France, upon the principles of the law of nations; upon sound policy, & by analogy drawn from the practice of Great Britain & all her Allies, during this present contest. I boast not of the execution, but the design was good, and I have never changed an opinion delivered in any of the pieces— Indeed, had the last number been published it would have been seen, that the principle of sending Envoys to treat, (offend whom it might) was the most material one to be established—that the public could not, nor ought they to calculate upon indemnity for the losses sustained by french Spoliation, except by promises to he performed at a future day, when France might be more able to pay, than she was then & now is. This idea, the printer thought would be unpopular, I suppose, and possibly it would have been so, but was it just?—was it correct? Has not experience evinced its truth?

The writer of this letter will, I presume, be easily guessed, by the Jacobins, who are so severely lashed in it, Cooper & Priestley, and as they will smart under it, it may be, they will come out, under anonymous signatures to attack the Author— Cooper is already writing the Constitutionalist, in the Aurora—

I believe you will do well to stay at Quincy for the present, though I dread the influence of our Nothern climate upon your health in the winter season. I hardly looked for my father so soon as you give me reason to expect him— I shall, after he arrives at the City, send my letters for you, under cover to him—

Present me kindly to all friends— I should like to pay them a visit, this winter, if my business would permit— It is not improbable I may be under the necessity of going to Boston, though I can scarcely afford either the time or the expence—

With great affection, / I am, dear Mother / Your Son

First I would inform You that B Adams is we hope out of Danger; his reason is returnd pretty clearly. he is not Yet permitted to leave his Chamber— I congratulate the Philadelphians that they have this Year escaped the Pestilence. it is now so late in the Season that I hope they may wholy escape Since I was first an inhabitant of this place I never knew it So sickly as it has been this summer. last week there were 42 persons down with fevers in about one Mile of each other. in the begining of July William Baxter was taken sick of a Billious intermitting fever. this went through his family, his wife two Children maid and Man;1 from that Neighbourhood in which there are two slaughter Houses, the fever has Spread. Scarcly a House, or family but have been visited with it. two Children only have dyed, but many of the Adults have escaped with the skin of their teeth, for they have been reduced to mere skelitons; Edward Norten took the fever at mrs Vintons school held in Newcombs House, went Home to Weymouth well, but was taken Sick with the fever, and lay at the point of Death for several days he is now a walking Shadow.2 Richard & Jacob are now down with it, but what is more to be regreeted Mrs Norten is taken down with the same fever, and in her weak debilitated state we have many fears for her. Your Aunt Cranch is also sick we fear of the same disorder. her Maid is just recovering— this is the first day for more than a week that I have been able to sit up, or write a line. mine my sickness has been more of the Rhumatic fever and sleepless Nights than of the nature of the prevaling fever these fevers run to 6 & 8 weeks where they are bad— this is the season for poor Rhumatic invalids to feel the effects of it. I think 413 often of You and fear to hear that You are attackd— I hope my next Letter Will convey to you more agreable intelligence—

I must now acknowledge the receipt of three two Letters from You, one of the 2 one of the 3d october3 I did read the peices You mention, and considerd them as the only Well written peices upon any subject which that paper has contained. there were some things in the first number which made me think they were not Written by …4 Such as the Charge made against the Gazzet of the united states “that it is devoted to the British, is only a trick of Duanes”5 now it is very notorious that from the appointment of envoys to France, that the Gazet was a party paper during the whole time that it was in the hands of that coxcomb J Ward Fenno, and was much more a British than an American paper—that it is,6 what it originally was in the Hands of the Father of the degenerate Son, no person will pretend to say. the lay Preacher is a sensible Man, but he has been soured, and is too much inclined to praise old Bel dame Britain and her ospring at the expence of his native country. I wish he had more of the scotchman in him in that respect beside I See no reason why a Man who will pemit the Jeffersoniad to be republishd in his paper, which is certainly coppied from the centinal, should refuse to republish peices Much better written— this does not work both ways. if I can collect these peices you Mention, I will Send them to the Secretary of the Historic Society, who in his last volm publishd an account of all the Newspapers Edited in the united states7 as to Pincknys Letter, between ourselves, I believe The Letter alluded to is a genuine coppy— I wish I could find coxs Letter which led to the observations— You know it was Pinckny the Senator who got the commission limited—and who requested col smith when he was appointed Secretary of legation, to become a spy upon the minister and make to him secreet communications—8 I only regreet the Publication of the Letter least it should wound the feeling of very Worthy Men, of whom it would never have been written, if they had been then personally known, as they since have been I am certain the President entertains for them a regard and esteem fully equal to their merrits— as to mr Pinckny or Rutledge ever calling upon the President to make any inquiries upon the Subject of the Letter it is all false. neither of them ever changed a word upon the subject. the New Haven buisness is all a misrepresentation, and Parson dana would behave more like a Gentleman if he told all the conversation, which however was between themselves, and cannot now be 414 accurately recollected. but the story of a hereditary monarchy is all Stuff for Electioneering purposes— you know that it must be so. you know that it is the furtherest from the thoughts of the President of any Man in the united states—9 Dana was lamenting the divisions, and the heats occasiond by the approaching Election—to which the President replied that it Was always so in Elective Governments—and would continue So, unless the nature of man could be altered. it appears if we May judge from what we hear that the N Haven visitors went with a design to tempt the P——t to Say Something which they could catch hold of—and by misrepresentation use and pervert to the Vilesest purposes— My advise to him upon the approaching journey is in the old moral to a fable

these are cold heart Chilling lines for a soul fraught with benevolence, but I believe Sound advise upon the present occasion—

Duans views are very evident— he will brew a Hell cauldron if he can, and he has all the ingredients in his own Venomous Heart. parson ogden is well provided for—but has left a Hydra head behind him

how could you believe upon the Aurora assertion that otis was a Jeffersonian— he could not have written Decius—11 he would not have run such a hazard

I have written myself Weary— mr Brisler left with Mrs Reisdel the silk stocking washer some lace to be washd for Me.12 if you can get it for me before Your Father comes, he can Frank it to me. pay for it, and I will reimburse You. I will return JQAs Letter the next opportunity.13 your Father goes on monday the 13th Biney & Hare dined here Yesterday—14