If the officers of the Crown differ in Sentiments with the Government, as Avell as with one another, the Service must fail in its principal obj6ct, and the Commissaries unsupported, & of Course Complained of from all Quarters must prove a needless Expense. These appointments did not originate with me and I have no reason to enter into the Merits of the affair but that it was a Judicious System proposed & approved of by Government, I have heard no complaints but of L*. Hay who I have ordered to prepare his defence, and who should not be condemned unheard on a charge brought by a Man who deserved punishment himself, I have received a very different acc^ from Cap*. Turnhull of the affair, which cannot yet be determined on either side. Gov^. Carleton could not with propriety in my opinion write me to desire "that no Violence be offered to the Traders," . The Comissy. (admitting the Complaints true) not having Exercised as much power as required by the plan, neither can it be insinuated that I should give any officers of the Department the least countenance to do so.

I have rec«i. and forwarded the Order respect?, the Cloaths remaining at the posts, & shall write to Major Rogers to incurr no more Expenses, as you desire. Agreeable to which likewise I have wrote to Mr. Henry Cuyler at Albany to receive the Cash, of which I am in the utmos want. Be assured that I always am, with perfect esteem,