By some accident your letter never came to my hands until yesterday, when I found it among some lose papers. I cheerfully comply with your request, & thank you very sincerely for the friendly sentiments expressed in your letter.

I have the honor to inform you that a Committee has been appointed by a meeting of the merchants of New York, for the purpose of addressing the executive upon the present distressed condition of that city.

In behalf of that committee I respectfully request an audience, at as early an hour as your convenience will permit.

Your letters enclosing your note &c. wasre received during my absence at the Columbia Circuit. I regret that this circumstance may have caused you some uneasiness. The annexed will hower prevent further.

Mr Tyson of Richmond stays in the [sa]me room with Martindale of Washington County who is very bitterly opposed to us. Tyson says he is adverse to a caucus & will not attend unless he is instructed from home. It is also surmised that his predecessor Pierson has made unfriendly impressions upon him. Cant you get letters to him from King Richmond or Rockland.

The Attorney General and Comptroller, on the petition of Benjamin Sanford, refered to them by the honorable the Assembly, reported:

The Attorney General, on the petition of Joshua Hamden, reported: 

The Surveyor General and Attorney General, to whom was refered the engrossed bill from the honorable the Senate, entitled "an act giving relief to the purchasers of certain lots of land," respectfully report:

The attorney-general, to whom was referred the petition of the trustees of the Hamilton and Lebanon manufacturing society, reported—

The attorney-general and surveyor-general, on the petition of Richard Goodwell, and also the memorial of Matthew McNair and others, reported as follows, to wit:

That the object of the petition and the memorial is, to authorise a sale to the petitioner of lots No. 42 and 6, in East Oswego.