1. Jones no doubt enclosed Alexander Murray’s letter to him of 9 May 1813 (3 pp.; DNA: RG 45, Captains’ Letters), in which Murray requested “the privilege of being defended” against accusations published by John Binns in the Philadelphia Democratic Press of 6 May 1813, of which Murray enclosed an extract (not found), along with a letter to him from Binns (not found). The Democratic Press asserted that Murray, who was responsible for the defense of the port of Philadelphia, had been “actually seen walking arm in arm with an English Naval Officer, belonging to the blockading Squadron, through our Navy Yard!!!” Murray informed Jones that the marshal of Philadelphia had sent some British officers to the U.S. navy yard without his knowledge, that he had interacted with them as little as possible and sent them away as soon as possible, and that this had been witnessed by “Messrs. Penrose, Cutbush, Weeks, Wade, Kingston & others.” He added that the officers had also been brought to his house, again without his agency, and that a young midshipman had dined with his family before being sent back to the boat. These were the actions, Murray concluded, for which Binns had so “basely traduced” him.