Mr William Herbert of Alexandria being anxious to enter into the marine Corps at Washington, if he can obtain an appointment in it, has applied to me for an introduction to you. This I give him with great pleasure, having had a long acquaintance with him, and a much longer one with the respectable family of which he is a member. He is a gentleman amiable in his manners, possesses a high sense of honor, and, I am persuaded, most of the important qualities to constitute a good Officer.

     I have been applied to by Judge Reeve one of the most virtuous and respectable men in Connecticut, for assistance in a matter, in which his feelings are deeply interested.

     We are all thunderstruck here by Genl Hamilton's pamphlet— If it was intended to promote the election of Genl Pinkney, it is seriously believed by his best friends here that it will produce quite a contrary effect. Such an attempt could not fail to excite the Jealousy of many federalists who are either personally attached to Mr Adams and for this reason would wish him to fill the chair of Chief Magistrate, or who for political reasons would wish to avoid a serious decision of the party by his rejection.

     Mr Davis, the district Attorney of Kentucky, and a brother in law of Chief Justice Marshall, wishes to remove to this City with professional views, provided the information he has requested of me should not render such a plan unadvisable.

     I take the liberty to enclose you a bill at 60 days drawn by C. P. Wayne of this city on Ezra Sargeant of New York for $500. which you will much oblige me by having presented to the drawee. Should it be accepted, you will please recieve the money at maturity for my account; if refused, I will thank you to return it under protest to the drawer. I must beg the favour of a letter addressed to me at Mount Vernon informing me of its fate. With very great regard I am dear Sir sincerely & respectfully yrs

     Your Letter of the 20th anticipated one which I had intended to address to you on the same Subject. I have been a good deal surprised that so little has been said upon it in the federal prints, and concluded either that the success of the measure was too generally doubted by the well informed men of the federal party to induce them to make the experiment, or that it was deemed unwise to stir in the business until the public Sentiment could be more certainly ascertained.

I have recd your favour of the 17th and with pleasure communicate any information which I possess, which may be useful to Mr Davis.