Your Letter of the 25th.: July Inst.1 which does no less Honour to your Candor, than Reputation Justice to the Reputation of General Schuyler, was very acceptable. Agreable to what I apprehend to have been your Intention, I have sent it to the Press, and flatter myself the Purposes for which it was written will be fully answered.

The Evacuation of Tyconderogah was an Event very unexpected as well as important, and has given occasion to much Speculation and Discontent. How far it was necessary & ^or^ prudent, can only be determined by Gentlemen of your Proffession acquainted ^acquainted^ with the Forts, Grounds about them, Strength of both Parties, and many other circumstances essential to a proper Discussion of that Subject—

I hope the Expediency of the Measure may, contrary to the general Expectation, be ^derive^ provenof by ^from^ the Event; and that Your Conduct ^the Determination of the General Officers on that Head^ may on Inquiry be found undeserving the Censure it at present meets with. I am Sir your most obdt & h’ble Servt