P.S. Knowing how fond you are of every useful improvement, I have the pleasure to say the Water Works are about finished:—the Engines answer exceedingly well, & now we have plenty of excellent water.—It does great credit to Mr. Latrobe.—As an Architect I think him the first I ever wrought under:—he combineth taste with strength and plainness with elegance & that, with the fewest expensive ornaments I ever saw.—It is a pity that such Talents should be lost to the Country:—Not meeting with the encouragement his abilities had a right to expect.—He proposes as soon as the Pennsylvania Bank is finished (which also doth him honor) to retire on a farm.—If any thing is wanting either in public, or to private gentlemen, I think him a fit person as Architect or Engineer.—I hope you will excuse my freedom, when I assure you I have not the smallest interest in the matter,—Nor does he know I have written this:—My sole motive is the good of the Country which I have much at heart.