Office of Finance, May 30th, 1782.
Sir.
I received your letters of the 7th, 9th, 14th, 18th, and 21st of May. The resolutions of the House of Delegates, passed on the 20th, have been submitted to Congress, and they have referred the matter to Mr Rutledge, and Mr Clymer, two of their members, who are going on special business to the southward. Your letters contain a great many particulars, which I shall briefly enumerate, and take notice of; many of them are of a private and personal nature, and therefore ought not in any case to have influenced the determinations on a matter of great public importance. I should pay no attention to them, if I were not persuaded, that the design is not so much to injure me, as to involve the national affairs committed to me.
I find there are made against me personally, the following charges.
1st. That I have robbed the Eastern States of their specie.
2dly. That I am partial to Pennsylvania, being commercially connected with half the merchants of Philadelphia.
3dly. That I am partial to the disaffected.
4thly. That I have established a bank for sinister purposes.
5thly. That my plan and that of Pennsylvania, are to keep Virginia poor, and
6thly. That with the Secretary of Congress and Mr Coffin I am engaged in speculation.