It would have given me Pleasure to have ^sooner^ acknowledged the Rect of your Letters of the 10 & 14 Inst.1 before they [illegible] I returned a few Days ago on Tuesday last from Fish Kill & postponed writing till I could make the Enquiries neceess collect the Materials necessary to pass Judgment of the Matter alluded to in your L ^proper a little Information.^ The Elections in the three lower Counties ^Middle District^ have taken such a Turn as that if a tolerable Degree of unanimity shd. prevail in the upper Counties, I have ^there will be^ little Doubt of having ’ere long the Honor of addressing a Letter to your Excellency. Clinton by being picked for both Offices may miss have neither, he has many Votes for the first & not a few for the second, Scott has [illegible] ^how[eve]r^ he carried a considerable number from his Lists ^from him of the former^ & you are by no Means without a Share. I came ^The Conclusions to be drawn from^ such Divisions ^are^ obvious. [illegible] ^A report that Albany designed Gen. Ten Broeck^ of for Lt Govr. excited ^disagree^ Jealousy. unfriendly [from a Tendency?] What Influence it may have had is hard to say ^difficult to conjecture^. I believe not very great as as there was ^it had^ not Time for it to spread wide & ^or^ take Root deep.2

I have casually hinted at holding the first Session of the Legislature at Albany, & find a general Disinclination to it.3 ^Some [illegible] object to^ The Expense of living [is regarded?] ^[called?]^ ^there as most^ intolerable ^by some^, & others say that should Albany succeed in having both the great officers, Care ought to be taken [illegible] ^the next step will be^ to make it the Capital of the State. In my opinion the Election shd. be determined before it will be proper to say much on this Subject, and then perhaps shd. the Govr only, come from Albany, and sd. assurances be given that the Members might live as cheap there as here, so a Removal may be ^[illegible] both^ practicable ^& prudent^. For shd. such a measure be carried ^occasioned^ by a Coalition of the upper Counties ^& carried by a slender Majority^ without the concurrance of the lower it wd. be productive of more Evil than its advantages wd probably compensate.

You may rely on receiving by Express the earliest notice of every ^the^ Event interesting to the public as the one you alluded to.