You acquaint me that Bills have appear’d drawn on you in March last,1 and ask very properly if this can be reconciled to the obvious Dictates of Prudence & Policy?— It cannot. And if you are unable to pay them, they must be protested: For it will not be in my Power to help you. And I see that nothing will cure the Congress of this Madness of drawing upon the Pump at Aldgate, but such a Proof that its Well has a Bottom.—2 I have the honor to be, Sir, Your Excellency’s, most obedt & most humble Sevt.