This may certify, that the following Extract of a Letter I received from Mr. William Woodward, of Hanover, in this State, transmitted to me by the Post, with a written Introduction, at the top of the Letter addressed to me, informing, that it was from Mr John Phillips Ripley,1 at Philadelphia, dated May 4th. but whether the Treasury department was positively mentioned or not, I do not recollect, (as the Letter is destroyed or mislaid, and cannot be found)—tho I am strongly of opinion that it was. Mr. Woodward, however, in open terms, requested me to publish it, and oblige a number of my political Readers; or in words to that purport—which I did as follows:

“Concord June 6. Extract of a Letter,” &c.

“I would inform you, that last evening at nine o’clock arrived here, from the Court of the Ex Princes at Coblentz, Count de Noailles, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from the Prince Regent of France. At a very late hour he waited on the President, with whom he was in private conversation until near morning.2 Mr. Genet, minister from the Republic, is on his way from Charlestown, S.C. and is daily expected. The crisis of affairs, it is generally thought, will demand a session of Congress.”