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then you were last at the seat of Government in a conversation respecting the emoluments of your Agency, you very clearly intimated that the Agency was no object with you and that the emoluments were trifling compared with the trouble and expense to which it subjected you [unclear] was not sufficiently unclear that you wished to be discharged from the duties of the Office, but I was induced to believe that you would have no objections to the measures -- as to your politicks I have no recollection of ever hearing what they were, but in your letter and talk you have very inequivocally informed me that you are violently opposed to the present administration, and I should have supposed that the self respect and pride of a Gentleman of your standing would have forbid his continuing