I can by no Means neglect the fair Opportunity offered me by Doctor Witherspoon and therefore I write in a Hurry without recurring to yours which is not on me. If I am not accurate do not accuse. As to Personalities I am fully of Opinion with you that I speak too often and too long of which the Bearer of this Letter will give you I doubt not many Instances. To my Sorrow I add that I am by no Means improved in my public Speaking. I have no Doubt that the Instance you allude to is exceptionable and the Party by his own

   Wrong deprived of the Benefit of that Protection which altho given by the Law that is the Consent of Nations does by no Means suspend the Laws of civil Society so far as to excuse a Breach of those Laws. But I am not a Civilian. That I am not a punctual Correspondent must be attributed to Distractions arising from an Attention to Business of so many different Kinds that your poor Friend hath but little in him of the gay Lothario. But you must believe, at least I entreat it, that my Heart holds you dear nor shall any Objects exclude you from the Place in it which you have acquired a double Title to by Right and by long Possession. The American is mine or I am the American which you please.(2) Both it and the Writer have Faults, Alas a great Many. I would that I could See some Person before every Publication. And that they also might be pressed nine years. But they will be forgotten in less than as many Days. I am disposed to meet you considerationally on your own Ground of which the Doctor will certify you but I am only an Individual. I can no longer tresspass on his Patience. Adieu, Believe me most warmly, your Friend, Gouvr Morris