I amsorry that my unguarded manner of expressing myself in a former letter respecting the objection so often made against fixing my school in the vicinity of your City (viz the bad morals of the place) was received in any other light than was simply and honestly intended : my design was only to advice you, that such an objection had been frequently and strongly urged ; and to Give you an opportunity to obviate the same's being further improved to the disadvantage of the design proposed I had not the least intention or disposition to reflect upon your City, or so much as express my own sentiments respecting that matter ; however the carless and ungaurded manner of my expression, naturally lead you to conceive, that which was very different from that entire friendship which wolly Governed me in, that matter, and which was so far from my intention that I never hada tho't or the least jealousy of my being so. understood, till I was informed of it by my Son, and since more fully by Mt Smith of New York, However I hope-that matter is now set right, and that you will Candidly ascribe it to that Crow'd of affairs, which obliges me relying upon the goodness of those to whom, I write, often to dismiss even Letters of iniportance, without such a review as I should otherwise think expedient. *

Ishall take the earliest opportunity to transmit your letters, to the Earl of Dartmouth &c, and also. Cap» Lansing's generous proposal at Stoneroby