It is not difficult to perceive that your situation is unpleasant; and it is easy to predict that your enemies will endeavor to render it still more so. The thorns they strew in your way will (if you please) hereafter blossom, and furnish garlands to decorate your administration. Resolve not to be driven from your station; and as your situation must, it seems, be militant, act accordingly. Envy will tell posterity that your difficulties, from the state of things, were inconsiderable, compared with the great, growing, and untouched resources of the nation. Your difficulties, from persons and parties will, by Time, be carried out of sight, unless you prevent it. No other person will possess sufficient facts and details to do full justice to the subject; and I think your reputation points to the expediency of memoirs. You want time, it is true,-but few of us know how much time we can find when we set about it.

Had not your letter come from the post-office, I should suspect it had been opened-the wafer looked very much like it. Such letters should be sealed with wax, impressed with your seal.

I rejoice with you in the re-election of Mr. Adams. It has relieved my mind from much inquietude-it is a great point gained-but the unceasing industry and arts of the Antis render perseverance, union, and constant efforts necesssary.

Adieu, my dear sir.

Yours sincerely.

HAMILTON TO HARRISON.

PHILADELPHIA, January 5th, 1793.

DEAR SIR:

*** * * Your account is returned with directory remarks upon it. I am sorry you should have the trouble of so many different applications, but the course of public business requires it.

I am more sorry that we have been deprived of the pleasure

of seeing you. Every friend I see from a place I love, is a cordial to me, and I stand in need of something of that kind now and then.

The triumphs of vice are no new things under the sun, and I fear, till the millennium comes, in spite of all our boasted light and purification, hypocrisy and treachery will continue to be the most successful commodities in the political market. It seems to be the destined lot of nations to mistake their foes for their friends, their flatterers for their faithful servants.

Adieu. Believe me with true esteem and regard, &c.

THOMAS PINCKNEY TO HAMILTON.

LONDON, January 8th, 1793.

MY DEAR SIR:

I am informed by Messrs. Bird, Savage and Bird, merchants of this city, that a scheme is in agitation for the payment in London of the interest on that part of the American funds which is in Europe, through the medium of agents to be appointed by the Bank of the United States. As they wish, in conjunction with another respectable house, to obtain this agency, they very judiciously think that your support would greatly strengthen their application to the President and Directors of the Bank, and have requested of me a letter of recommendation to you on the subject; and I accede to the proposal without reluctance, as I am persuaded that private application never influences your mind in public appointments, at the same time that the testimony of those acquainted with the applicants will have such weight as it merits. With respect to the present business, I can only inform you that the gentlemen who compose this house are respectable in their private capacities as well as in their mercantile transactions, and as far as my information goes very well connected here; they are known to have had considerable concerns in the American funds already, which it is their present object to con

tinue, and to evince that I do not recommend where I have not a confidence, all my transactions in the money line pass through their hands; which, though not considerable, are of importance to me.

Your letter to Messrs. Vanstaphorsts and Co., was brought to me, yesterday, by the captain of the New Pigeon, and shall be sent by this day's mail.

I have the honor to be, with the utmost respect, yours, &c.

CARRINGTON TO HAMILTON.

RICHMOND, February 15th, 1793.

I have been favored with a packet from you containing several copies of your letter of the 4th instant, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives. I had fully anticipated the decided contradictions contained in this letter, to the suggestions which gave rise to it, having seen the resolutions alluded to. The copies of the letters are circulated as far as the numbers would admit, and I think if you could send me more, they might be distributed with good effect.

I cannot but be of opinion that you ought to rejoice in those attacks which lead to decided contradictions. Both sides of the question get fairly presented to public view, and truth must ultimately have its due effect.

I am, with great regard,

Your sincere friend and humble servant,
ED. CARRINGTON.

DEAR SIR:

MORRIS TO HAMILTON.

PARIS, February 16th, 1793.

My last was of the 16th of January, of which I now inclose a copy. It has so happened that a very great proportion of the French officers, who served in America, have been either opposed to the revolution at an early day, or felt themselves obliged, at a later period, to abandon it. Some of them are now in a state of banishment, and their property confiscated. Among these last there are a few, who had intrusted to their agents the certificates received from our treasury, and these last, under the pressure of penal decrees, either detain those certificates, or have delivered them up to those persons appointed by the republic to take charge of confiscated property.

There certainly can be no question on this subject, under the laws existing among nations, but I shall not undertake to decide either on rights or pretensions to right, especially where I am not authorized to act; but it is proper that I should lay before you a state of facts, for your ulterior decision. The only one at present before me is the case of Colonel Laúmoy, to whom I shall write in answer to his applications, that I am not authorized to make payment but on production of the certificate, and therefore he must address himself on the subject to you, in the full confidence that right and justice will take place, such being the clear determination of the United States.

I am, &c.,

GOUVERNEUR MORRIS.

BARD TO HAMILTON.

NEW-YORK, March 4th, 1793.

SIR:

I dined a few days ago with a large company at Judge Duane's. In the course of the afternoon, you became the subject

of general conversation. It gave me the greatest pleasure to hear that just and grateful applause which all the company bestowed upon you.

Your friend General Gates declared whenever your idea was present to his mind, he could not help applying to you the beautiful epitaph Mr. Pope wrote to the memory of his friend, Mr. Secretary Craggs:

"Statesman, yet friend to truth, of soul sincere,

In action faithful, and in honor dear!

Who broke no promise, served no private end,
Who gained no title, and who lost no friend,
Ennobled by himself, by all approved,

Praised, wept, and honor'd, by the mass he loved."

It was unanimously and heartily agreed by this respectable company, that these lines exhibited an exact and perfect portrait of Colonel Hamilton's character. The delight I felt at this just and grateful eulogium has prompted me to communicate it to the only gentleman, who will probably feel less sensibility on the occasion, than any of his numerous friends. Though I presume, a just tribute of praise, which flows from a grateful sense of those great and essential benefits, man derives to his country, by superior abilities and unremitting devotion to its real interests, cannot be ungrateful to the generous donor himself.

I am, Sir,

With real respect and affection, &c.

HAMILTON TO

August, 1793.

DEAR SIR:

Poor Duer has now had a long and severe confinement, such as would be adequate punishment for no trifling crime. I am well aware of all the blame to which he is liable, and do not mean to be his apologist, though I believe he has been as much