You may perhaps have heard that previous to the Embarkation on his mission for London of my father, he was required by the widow & sons of Genl Hamilton—and upon his declining was juridically summoned by a bill in Equity filed in the name of Mrs Hamilton—to deliver up certain Confidential papers belonging to the Estate of Genl Hamilton—which papers Mr Pendleton, the Executor of Genl Hamilton, had placed in my father's hands for safe keeping— To this bill of Course an answer must be made of which probably an outline will soon be transmitted by my father from London to H