I have written to you several letters on a Variety of Subjects in which I thought the public Service was Interested

But I Imagene the Subjects may have been thought too unimportant to attend to or your answer must have miscarried as I have not heard from you by the Two last mails—

I have procured loans of money for several of my officers whose situations woud not permit them to Continue the Recruiting Service without assistance & I Shall be obliged to advance the money out of my own private funds unless it is shortly sent forward

If a Supply of Coats & Vests Coud be forwarded with the Horsemans Tents they woud be Verry acceptable

I forwarded to the Adjt Genl by the last post the Enlistments & monthly Returns of the 8th Regt—

You must pardon me for again mentioning the Verry Great discontent that the appointment of Mr Meredith & Mr Stephens as First Lieutenants has given to the second Lieutenants of my Regiment tho I Consider them Both as good officers I had no Idea & I am certain they had not of Being put over the heads of any officer who had been previously appointed, & If the arrangement coud with propriety be changed so as to give the preference to the Two Eldest 2nd Lieutenants I coud wish it done, as I am Confident we shall otherwise lose several valuable officers

I Trust that you will pardon the liberty that I take in Troubling you so often & that you will Believe me to be with the Greatest Respect Sir your Verry obdt Servt