Dear Sir,

Yours of the 10th instant is received.  I expected mine of the 14th would have been my last from hence, as I had proposed to set out on the 20th; but on the morning of the 19th, we heard of the arrival of Marshall at New York, and I concluded to stay and see whether that circumstance would produce any new projects.  No doubt he there received more than hints from Hamilton as to the tone required to be assumed.  Yet I apprehend he is not hot enough for his friends.  Livingston came with him from New York.  Marshall told him they had no idea in France of a war with us.  That Talleyrand sent passports to him and Pinckney, but none for Gerry.  Upon this, Gerry stayed, without explaining to them the reason.  He wrote, however, to the President by Marshall, who knew nothing of the contents of the letter.  So that there must have been a previous understanding between Talleyrand and Gerry.  Marshall was received here with the utmost eclat.  The Secretary of State and many carriages, with all the city cavalry, went to Frankfort to meet him, and on his arrival here in the evening, the bells rung till late in the night, and immense crowds were collected to see and make part of the show, which was circuitously paraded through the streets before he was set down at the City tavern.  All this was to secure him to their views, that he might say nothing which would oppose the game they have been playing.  Since his arrival I can hear of nothing directly from him, while they are disseminating through the town, things, as from him, diametrically opposite to what he said to Livingston.  Doctor Logan, about a fortnight ago, sailed for Hamburgh.  Though for a twelvemonth past he had been intending to go to Europe as soon as he could get money enough to carry him there, yet when he had accomplished this, and fixed a time for going, he very unwisely made a mystery of it; so that his disappearance without notice excited conversation.  This was seized by the war-hawks, and given out as a secret mission from the Jacobins here to solicit an army from France, instruct them as to their landing, he.  This extravagance produced a real panic among the citizens; and happening just when Bache published Talleyrand’s letter, Harper, on the 18th, gravely announced to the House of Representatives, that there existed a traitorous correspondence between the Jacobins here and the French Directory; that he had got hold of some threads and clues of it, and would soon be able to develope the whole.  This increased the alarm; their libelists immediately set to work, directly and indirectly to implicate whom they pleased.  Porcupine gave me a principal share in it, as I am told, for I never read his papers.  This state of things added to my reasons for not departing at the time I intended.  These follies seem to have died away in some degree already.  Perhaps I may renew my purpose by the 25th.  Their system is, professedly, to keep up an alarm.  Tracy, at the meeting of the joint