No man can be more anxious for the fate of the treaty with Great Britain than you; and ^the^ wanton abuse heaped upon you by the enemies of their country, gives you a right to the earliest possible relief. The treaty will be ratified. This day the President finally sanctions a memorial announcing it to the British minister, Mr. Hammond. The ratification will conform to the advice & consent of the Senate, unembarrassed with any other condition.

Permit me to suggest to your consideration the expediency—perhaps I should say the necessity—at this time of general ferment, when the grossest falsehoods, the most infamous calumnies are industriously disseminated to render suspected and odious the real friends to their country—of a solemn public declaration of the President, of the principles of his administration—& of his appealing to the train of actions which have marked his whole life, for the purity and patriotism of his conduct on the present occasion. Something of the kind seems due to himself, and to the early, determined & uncorrupted patriots who have supported him.1

The post is on the point of departure; which obliges me to conclude abruptly. With great & sincere respect I am yours