I cannot let Mr Liston go without taking the occasion of his departure to recommend him to you, and to express my hope that his character & conduct will be found well calculated to continue & promote that harmony which it was the object of our labours to establish.1 I have, since you left us, taken one occasion to renew to you my assurances of the sincere esteem & friendship with which your whole conduct has impressed me, and of the high sense which I entertain of your virtues & talents. It is a great satisfaction to one when in the course of so many unpleasant discussions as a public man must necessarily be engaged in, he is able to look back upon any of them with as much pleasure as I derive from that which procured me the advantage of friendship & intercourse with a man valuable on every account. You I trust saw enough of me to know that these expressions are not on my part compliments of course, but that they proceed from sentiments of real esteem & regard.

I need not tell you with how much pleasure on every account I have learnt that the public in the United States is recovering from the delusion into which they had been led and that justice is now done by the Country at large, as it was before by well informed & well principled men to the uprightness & ability of your conduct. I on my part should have thought that I very ill consulted the interests of my own Country if I had been desirous of terminating the points in discussion between us on any other footing than that of mutual justice & reciprocal advantage, nor do I conceive that any just objection can be stated to the great work which we jointly accomplished, except on the part of those who believe the interests of Gr. Britain & the United States to be in contradiction with each other, or who wish to make them so.

It would be a great gratification to me to learn occasionally that you are well, and that you retain a friendly recollection of one who is with the greatest sincerity Most truly & faithfully Your obedient Humble Servant