I received your Letters of the 6th & 7th1 at the same time, & am obliged to you for transmitting Mr Kempes by the Packet, as it will be of real importance to him if he receives it before the commissioners he mentions have finally reported relative to his confiscated property in the State of New Jersey. I am also obliged to you for your promise of paying me a visit on my return to Elizabeth Town & the more so as there is another promise annexed ^to^ it, of bringing with you a certain little gentleman whom I greatly long to see—2 I shall inform you of my arrival without loss of time—But my hopes of returning by the time expected are a little clouded by reason of there being certain creatures in this world that are more pleased with their own speeches than they can prevail upon any body else to be. I am Sir your most humble & affectionate servant