1From George Washington to Bryan Fairfax, 3 January 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 16th Ulto came safe, but not in the time which might have been expected from the date of it. Mr Davie’s letter is herewith returned. I do not know that more could have been done, than you have attempted to do; but it is exceedingly to be regretted, that villainy—chicanery—and every species of delay, should bring justice in such jeopardy, if it is not, intirely defeated by...