The writings of George Washington; being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes and illustrations. By Jared Sparks.

94 WVASHINGTON'S WRITINGS. [JET. 23.
accept of it. At present I have no proposals made to
me, nor have I any advice of such an intention, except
from private hands. I am, &c.
TO WARNER LEWIS.
Mount Vernon, 14 August, 1755.
DEAR SIR,
After returning you most sincere and grateful thanks,
for your kind condolence on my late indisposition, and
for the generous and (give me leave farther to say) partial
opinion, you have entertained of my military abilities, I
must express my concern for not having it in my power
to meet you, and other friends, who have signified their
desire of seeing me in Williamsburg. *
Your letter only came to hand at nine last night, and
you inform me, that the Assembly will break up the
latter end of the week, which allows a time too short in
which to perform a journey of a hundred and sixty
miles, especially by a person in my feeble condition;
for, although I am happily recovered from the disorder,
which brought me to so low an ebb, by a sickness
of nearly five weeks' continuance, yet my strength
" Mr. Ludwell, another of his friends in the Assembly, had written to him
on the 8th of August. -" I most heartily congratulate you on your safe return from so many dangers and fatigues, and by this time I hope you are
well enough recovered to give us the pleasure of seeing you here, which
all your friends are extremely desirous of. The House has voted twelve
hundred men, but it is very probable they will determine at last for four
thousand. In conversation with the Governor I said, if this should be
done I supposed his Honor would give the command of them to Colonel
Washington, for I thought he deserved every thing his country could do
for him. The Governor made reply much in your favor, though I understand there is another warm solicitation for it. If we could be so happy
as to have you here at this time, and it were known that you are willing
to take such a command, I believe it would greatly promote the success
of our endeavours with the Assembly."