This morns. Genl. Clarkson inform’d me that a Vessel wd. sail for Liverpool to-morrow, & as a long time has elaps’d since an opportunity has offered by which I could write I recd. the intelligence with pleasure— As I am well convinced that you are more interested in the health & comfort of myself & children than any other circumstance, it heightens the satisfaction I feel in having it in my power to assure you we still enjoy those blessings— all our near connections are well— The three Children pass’d a fortnight at yr. brother’s, & it is now a fortnight since they return’d. I’ve not had the pleasure of seeing either Peter or Polly since you left me— At present Peggy Munro & her little Son are at Rye & to-day Mr. Munro is gone there & leaves it on Monday for Albany— I suppose he writes you as he tells me he does, of the business he transacts for you— messrs. W. & B.1 have each paid him 100£ on their respective Notes & he has delivered it to me— Since you went away I have advanced to John Lyon 156£ for the Mill & besides that have paid 62£ for a pair of Mill stones which Mr. Greene bought here at N York— He thinks that in about 6 weeks he shall be able to begin to grind—2 I have recd. from Mr. A. Van Horne on Accnt. one thousand three hundred & eighty pounds for you, & other sums which added to that makes upwards of 200£ Not a farthing of which can Mr. Munro or myself improve. Mr. Grant delayed the payment so long that stock of every kind is too high to purchase nor indeed is it for sale.3 The situation of affairs in Europe & discontent in Canada lead people here with full Confidence to anticipate peace & indeed the extreme prosperity of the Country is such that your Mission is much more popular & I have heard from good Authority that many who wish’d for war & were disaffected to the public measures are now as desirous of Peace—& success to your Mission is become an Universal toast— Money is so plenty that a friend of ours told me he had taken ^it^ up on Long Island at 6 pr. Cent & could have as much as he wanted at that rate— a friend of ours has not been able to put out any upon good security— The Waggon you engaged has not yet arrived— Mrs. Ridley has sold her house at B[altimore] & Thinking she shd. be ready to leave that place by the 25th. ^beginning^ July promised possession the 25th., but not having finished her business she was obliged to stay with a friend & Susan came here this week on a visit— Judge Symes is to fetch her in a fortnight to Carry her to Morris Town from whence in Septbr. she sets out for the Westward— Mr. Smith’s Lot next to us was sold at Auction for 4450£ & the Auctioneer by Mr. Smith’s order informed the bidders that your house extended 2 feet on his ground & that for those 2 feet you had offered 200£, which had been refused— Mr. Henderson who purchased it said he would not be hard with you but that he would not say he would accept the 200£ for the 2 feet— at first I thought Cousin Peter who was alarm’d at that assertion came here to examine your Deed & thinking their Claim groundless, wrote Mr. Henderson that he believ’d it so, & that he never had heard you express an Apprehension of the kind— Mr. Henderson still thinks you have made some mistake as it is endorsed in the handwriting of the late Chief Justice on his Deed— at first I did not intend to trouble you with a relation of this malicious transaction as I am sure your mind must be sufficiented employed with public business to require an exemption of ^from^ private vexations ^but Mr. M[unro] thought it best you shd. be informed of it—^ I think it was best Mr. Munro pursued the measure he did least the silence of your friends should be misconstrued into an acknowledgement of the Claim—4 I have endeavored tho’ in haste to recollect what I thought ^the^ most interesting circumstances in our affairs to communicate to you tho’ in doing so I’ve done violence to my inclinations which would have led me to the choice of very different subjects— three pages have I written without expressing one anxious desire of seeing you or even of hearing from you or our dr. Son— Would you believe that Stewart has not yet sent me yr. picture? I call upon him often, I have not hesitated to tell him it was in his power to contribute infinitely to my gratification by indulging me with yr. portrait — he has at length resumed the pencil & Munro has been sitting with your robe for him— It is your very self, it is an inimitable picture & I am all impatience to have it to myself— There is an excellent engraver here & Stewart has been solicited by a respectable number of Citizens to permit an Engraving to be taken of that picture for which he has asked & obtained my consent he begs me to remind you of the promise you made him the day you he breakfasted with you—5 be so kind as to enquire where Characci resides—6 Susan & the Children &c. &c.

Genl. Clarkson call’d for my letter before I had finished Copying it a great deal of it is therefore from memory & copied to preserve facts only—