Your letter of the 4th came to hand on the 8 inst. but it was not till I could get a list of the Senate that I could do any thing in it. mr E. Coles accompanying the President on a visit here has furnished me one, and I have immediately written to those members of the present Senate to whom I felt myself at liberty to apply. with some of the others I am not acquainted, and a recommendation from me to the federalists would be a sufficient condemnation of you. my letters to Genl Smith of Balt. Doctr Leib, mr Giles & mr Brent I have forwarded by this post, because I knew their address. but those to Messrs Varnum, J. Smith of N.Y. Gregg, Condit, Lambert, Worthington, Pope, Anderson, Franklin, Turner & Crawford, not knowing their post offices, I now inclose to you to superscribe the place of their abode, or to retain till you see them as you think best. I sincerely wish they may have the effect you wish for. the thing to be apprehended is that some revolutionary officer or souldier may be a competitor, & rendered formidable by the favor shewn to them. I leave one of the letters open, for your perusal, all of them being the same. seal it before you send it off. I wish you every possible success.

Th: Jefferson