The express who is to carry my public letter waits while I hastily write this. These express having private & public Letters for you have been carryed to New York tho’ as I beleive the Letters were destroyed I learned of this opportunity so late that I cannot send you a duplicate of the Letters.— I most sincerely condole with you on the death of your father an event which you must too long have expected not to be prepared for it But with all your preparation & your conviction that a greater blessing could not have happened to him considering the state in which he has been for a long time past I am satisfied you will ^feel^ no small degree of pain on this event— It would be impertinent & ill timed to offer you consolation at this time let me change the subject— Sir James as I informed you in my last having been carried to New York and confined to the provost till the arrival of Genl Carleton was enlarged but not permitted to leave the City—it is since said that he is gone to England but whether as a prisoner or of his own accord I cannot say tho’ I presume if the account is true that it must be as a state prisoner—1

I inform you in my public Letter that I would remit bills for one quarters salary it has been since found impossible to get the accts. past & to procure the bills on this short notice I shall send them by the next conveyance—2 I am Dear Sir Yours Affectionatly