Dear Sir,

As far as I am able to judge, the plan suggested in the inclosed memoir, is admirably fitted to give a decided superiority to our Frigates above those of the Enemy. If you should think so, I know you will push it into execution with the same zeal that animates you in every thing that affects the public. Will not the Churches furnish their bells to make 24 pounders for the Randolph & the Delaware when they are to be employed against an enemy who mean to exterpate religion and every thing else valuable here! Should the enemy get possession of Philadelphia, they will surely strip the churches of their bells, as a perquisite for their chief Engineer, whereas, if they are lent to us, we shall repay in kind. I hope you will not suffer the enemy to have the honor of getting Philadelphia. I am with truth & esteem [&c.]