New Orleans 7th June 1837.

My dear General.

After a pleasant but long passage We

arrived here on the 25th ultimo.

I have had the satisfaction of receiving your kind letter of

the 18th May, and I shall have much pleasure in order-

ing your Cottage at the time I order my own. I presume

it will be the end of the year before they can arrive in

the Bay.

My report is gone to England, and I have embraced in it

every subject of interest connected with the prosperity of

your interesting Country. I have noticed the probable

alteration in the Tariff, which I hope has been attended to

by D. Everitt and the Finance Committee. I have placed

the infernal Slave concern on as good a footing as such

a misfortune can be represented, but I wish from my

heart that Slavery had never been a blot on your Charter

of freedom[.] You, I know think as I do on that subject