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... It seems necessary to me that we shoud have an interview to settle a plan with more safety than can be done by Letter, even in Cypher. For this purpose I woud come to you immediately, but that it being now in the middle of our Law Circuit, my quitting it abruptly woud be remarkd. That will be over the 10th of next month; when I will set out to meet you, unless you shoud think it improper. I have inclosed you a Cypher for greater safety, & beg you will answer me as soon as possible inclosing it to Mr Alderman [William] Lee No 33 great tower Hill, London. If you have no objection to my coming, be so good as to hire for me a convenient private Lodging near you, to be enterd the 15th of the month & continued in weekly. Let me know the House, street & Quarter, that I may drive to it immediately because enquiries are always made about those who come to the Hotels. I woud have it taken in the name of Mr. Jackson. I beg too that you will mention precisely where you lodge, that I may find you without inquiries which are dangerous.
Permit me to warn you against any communication whatsoever with english, Scots or Americans, here or with you; until you are very well assurd of their characters, & with the middle of the three never....
If you should have an opportunity of writing to ー before I see you, caution them against Sir James Jay, Dennis DeBardt, Mr [John] Langdon formerly Delegate from N. Hampshire, Paul Wentworth, & William Molleson a Maryland Mercht with whom Mr [Matthew] Tilghman, a Delegate for Maryland corresponds without knowing that his intelligence goes directly to Administration. Col. Mercer too, who is always with ministerial people shoud not be trusted. I have good reason to fear that Joseph Reed in Philadelphia is a dangerous man. In these times it is necessary to obstain from trusting those of whom there is the least suspicion. The Scale is coming so near to a ballance, that a little treachery may turn it to our destruction, & the ruin of public Liberty.
Adieu
