[Draft Excerpt:] I have made 70 Justice Writs and 20 Court; perhaps I may be considered a sort of father or founder of a small family in the Courts of Justice...Politics are at a very low ebb, all these tongues that used...to vibrate in favour of the British cause and that was hung upon their golden wire, have become palsied and lick the dust with humility, that they were wont to dispise -- Those who, are on the other side as we term it, are very much out with Mr Adams and condemn his never [faiding?] Essays on this administration and the exposure of that base and obnoxious Essex Junto party whose offences 'smell to heaven,' to the world. The federal party are here condemning what they in the plenitude of their power devised viz - the Banking System -. Their execrations...are well levelled, and they power them...like a charger of grape shot from a man [o] War - The times are pinching; but I hope for the best. I suppose that we may expect a Treaty with G. Britain now she has sent her 2 Ministers base equivocation. She has waited to see the powers of Austria buried in oblivion, and then hastens to America for a negotiation.