I hasten to inform you of our safe Arrival at this City after as pleasant a journey as the Season would admit and thank fortune with out the most trifling accident

Permit me to offer my thanks for the polite Letter with which I was furnished for the Governor from whom I have received the most flattering attention and to request you will in my name assure Mr. [Kosudavlow] of the very high sense I entertain of the obligation he has confer’d on me which I certainly had no right to expect and for which I feel truely grateful—

On my arrival at Narva the Commandant came to visit me and inform’d me that he had received notice from Mr. [Kosudavlow] of, my intention to pass through Narva and he waited on me to offer appartments at his house during my stay with an invitation to pass the next day. I had already order’d my Horses and was under the necessity of refusing his offer’d Kindness. As he could speak nothing but German, I explained myself very ill. I will request you to notice this likewise to the Minister of the Interior!

Mr. Mitchel called on me last evening but I just going to the Theatre with the Governor he said he would call to day at 12 o’clock and I expect him every moment as soon as I have settled my money Matters I will give you the proper information <it>

It has poured with rain all night, and we were obliged to take the runners off about 150 [V.] from here, as the Ground was perfectly bare. I am told however that beyond Mittan, I shall find Snow in abundance

Mr. Mitchel and his Lady have just left me I have given him notes to the amount of one thousand eight hundred [R.] he says that this Sum will be sufficient to take me to Memel I have therefore requested him to change it for the proper Money for the rout—

Accept my thanks for your polite recommendation with best wishes for your happiness and prosperity—