The storm which has been for some time threatening the Judges has at length burst on their heads & a most furious hurricane it is. The author is spoken of with as much confidence as if his name was subscribed to his essays. It is worth your while to read them. They are in the Enquirer under the signature of Hampden.

I find myself more stimulated on this subject than on any other because I believe the design to be injure the Judges & impair the constitution. I have therefore thoughts of answering these essays & sending my pieces to you for publication in the Alexandria paper. I shall send them on in successive numbers but do not wish the first to be published till I shall have seen the last of Hampden. I will then write to you & request you to have the publications made immediately. As the numbers will be marked I hope no mistake will be made by the printer & that the manuscript will be given to the flames. I wish two papers of each number to be directed to T. Marshall, Oak hill, Fauquier. I do not wish them to come to me lest some suspicion of the author should be created.

I send you a check for 30$ on account of my subscription to your¹society for colonization. I am not sure that Mr Caldwell is in the city or I should send it to him. Your