I have the honor to transmit to your Excellency an Act of Congress of the 29th Instant relating to an insult offerred to the Person of Monr. De Marbois by a certain Monr. de Longchamp.(1)
By a letter received this day from the Supreme Executive of the State of Pennsylvania it appears that the said Longchamp has been apprehended in Consequence of a Warrant issued by one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and is now confined in the common Jail at Philadelphia.(2)
I have the honor to be with the greatest respect, Your Obedient Servant,
Thomas Mifflin
LB (DNA: PCC, item 16).
1 See the preceding entry, note 1.
2 This May 28 letter from Pres. John Dickinson was read in Congress and entered on the journals for June 1, for which see JCC, 27:502-3.