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New York July 5th 1797 Sir, In a pamphlet lately published lately published entitled

"so V of the History of the United States for 1796 []" are

sundry papers respecting the affair of Reynolds, in which

you once had an agency, accompanied with these among

other comments_" They(certain attachs on Mr Monroe)

are ungrateful, because he displayed on an occasion that

will be mentioned immediately the greatest lenity to Mr Alex

under Hamilton the prime mover of the Federal Party.

When some of the papers which Papers which are now to be laid be-

fore the world were submitted to the Secretary; when he

was informed that they were to be communicated to Presi-

Washington, he entreated in the most anxious tone

of depreciation, that this measure might be suspended.

Mr Monroe was one of the three Gentlemen who agreed to

this delay. They gave their consent to it on his express

promise of a guarded behaviour in future, and because

he attached to the suppression of these papers a mysterious

degree of solicitude which they feeling no personal resent-

ment against the Individual, were unwilling to augment"

(Page 204 & 205). It is also suggested(Page 206) that

I made "a volunteer acknowledgement of seduction" and it