By the politeness of Mr. _Emerson_ I received the very valuable contents of your package. A new edition of that unprecedented performance, entitled "A Pickle for the Knowing Ones," &c. is very urgently called for by the friends of literature in this country and in England--and I presume with the additions and improvements intended to accompany the second edition, provided it should be well printed, would entitle the author to a seat with the Disciples of Sir Joseph Banks, if not to a place in Bonaparte's Legion of Honor--for my Lord DEXTER is an honorable man. But, sir, the work cannot be executed for the sum named--nor in the time specified.--I will print an edition of 500 copies with the additions, for fifty dollars, and cannot possibly do them for less. Wishing your Lordship health in perpetuity--a continuance of your admirable reasoning faculties--good _spirits_, and an abundance of wealth--and finally a safe passage over any river not with _Sticks_, but a pleasure boat, I remain yours with the utmost profundity. W. CARLTON. _The Right Honorable Lord_ DEXTER, } _Kt. Newburyport_. } * * * * * _The follering peases are not my Riting but very drole_ TIMOTHY DEXTER MR. MELCHER, _Your publishing the following extract from a letter said to be from a trader among the Indians to a friend, may amuse some of your customers for the Gazette._ A few days ago one of the Indians paid me a visit. After some conversation, he said that a minister from the United States had been with his tribe to teach them the Christian religion. He says that there is but one only living and true God, who is a good, wise, and powerful spirit (this Indian say too) and that there are three persons in the god head, of one substance and power, God the father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost, that the Father is of none, neither begotten, or proceeding, the Son is eternally begotten of the Father, the Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son, and that the Holy Ghost visited a virgin, and conveyed the Son into her; where he continued nine moons and then was born like other children, was born God and man, that when he was about thirty years old began to preach, but the great men no like his preaching, sent their warriors, who took and killed him.