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you by the hand on our behalf. And we desire that you will receive them, or any of them that may be enabled to perform the journey as your brothers, in whom we have confidence, and that you will receive any communications from them as being from us, who are desirous of assisting you in what may add to your comfort, and that of your women and children. Your friends and brothers, William Stabler, Isaac Tyson, Benjamin Ellicott, John Ellicott Edward Stabler Philip E. Thomas Andrew Ellicott, Jr., Evan Thomas, Elisha Tyson, Jonathan Wright, Elias Ellicott, Jonathan Ellicott, Thomas More, Samuel Snowden. Baltimore, 2d. mo. 4th, 1804. At the contents of this letter they expressed their satisfaction, and after a pause of several minutes we addressed them through an interpre-ter as follows: Brothers and Friends.- You observe that the letter which has just been read, makes men-tion of four of us appointed to visit you. One of these was an infirm man who thought he could not endure the fatigue of so long a jour-ney, and therefore did not come. The other did not omit to come for the want of love to his red brethren; family circumstances rendered it inconvenient for him to leave home. You see,