I have recd yours of March 28—and have laid aside the thought of purchasing seeds for you or myself in this Place.1

We have in America so many Elections to make and they recur so frequently and foreign Politicks are intermingled in them so much that the People are kept in continual Irritation and Agitation. It will 471 not only weary out the Patience of the People, and give a Disgust to the most judicious & upright but it will sour the tempers and pejorate the Principles of all orders. We must however Submit to it and do the best We can.

Elections of one third of the federal senate, the whole House of Representatives and of President & V. President come on next fall and will keep the whole Continent in a blaze the whole summer. The Abby Sieyes and all his Spies & Agents American and French are at Work and We shall see curious Movements.

Our venerable Governor I expect will stand his Ground: but his Inveteracy against the general Government does much harm2

It must be a Dotage indeed that can make of him a Tool of French Finesse. But Changes in him are no Miracles.

With Regards to the Family I am your / good friend

I again take the liberty of troubling you to send to the Post Master Genll. the inclosed application in behalf of Mr. Benjamin More as successor to Mr. Richmond the late Post master in this City, who died yesterday morning.—1 Mr. More is a native of Boston and a worthy honest man whose interest I wish to promote as far as it lays in my power.—

I will thank you to lose no time in sending my Application as various other people are applying for the same office.— I hope you will excuse the trouble I give you, I am with the / most affectionate Respect / your obedt. servt.