I have just recd a letter from one of my daughters requesting me to ask Judge Washington if it is true that he has interdicted all visits to Mount Vernon by water. It seems that Miss Silsbie and some other young ladies, daughters of members of congress, being desirous befor they go home to pay their respects at the tomb of their country's Father, had formed a party with their young friends of Washington, for the purpose and had proposed for their convenience to take one of the small steam boats— when they were stopped by the information of this interdiction.

     In a late official communication by Govr Troup to the Legislature of Georgia, I find myself charged with having maintained before the Supreme Court of the United States, at the last term, the proposition “that slavery, being inconsistent with the laws of God and nature, cannot exist.” Will you do me the justice to say in reply whether either your notes of argument, or your recollection impute that proposition to me; or any sentiment or opinion that slavery, as it now exists in the several¹ states, could be or ought