[. . . .] to address to you [. . . .] inform you that a vessel [. . . .] with public dispatches ab[. . . .] one every month or 6. weeks after [. . . .] the embargo. the time & place [. . . .] notified in the public papers 2. or 3. [. . . .] [m]asters of these vessels are permitted [. . . .] as passengers on such terms as a[. . . .]en them, the public having no concern in [. . . .] the vessel of June will go from Washington [. . . .] detained the person who brought [. . . .] letter a day by an inadverte[nt] [. . . .] am to blame. I mistook [. . . .] and told him his letters shou[ld] [. . . .] aclock to-day, which was the post-hour. I salute you with respect.