You have seen too much, Sir, of the conduct of the press in countries where it is free, to consider the gazettes as evidence of the sentiments of any part of the government: you have seen them bestow on the government itself, in all its parts, its full share of inculpation. Of the sentiments of our government on the subject of your letter, I cannot give you better evidence than the statement of the causes of the Indian war, made by the Secretary of War on the 26th of the last month, by order of the President, and inserted in the public papers. No interference on the part of your nation is therein stated among the causes of the war. I am happy however in the hope, that a due execution of the treaty will shortly silence those expressions of public feeling, by removing their cause. I have the honor to be, with great respect and esteem, Sir, your most obedient and most humble servant, Th: Jefferson. LETTER XCVI.--TO MR. HAMMOND, February 25, 1792 TO MR. HAMMOND. Philadelphia, February 25, 1792. Sir, I have now the honor to enclose you the answer of the Attorney General to a letter I wrote him on the subject of yours of the 18th instant. It appears that the judges of the Supreme Court of the United States are open to the application of Mr. Pagan for a writ of error to revise his case. This writ is to be granted, indeed, or refused, at the discretion of the judge; but the discretion of the judge is governed by the rules of law: if these be in favor of Mr. Pagan’s application, his case will be reviewed in the Supreme Court, and the decision against him corrected, if wrong, if these be against his application, he will then be at the end of the ordinary course of law, at which term alone it is usual for nations to take up the cause of an individual, and to inquire whether their judges have refused him justice. At present, therefore, I am not able to say more, than that the judges of the Supreme Court of the United States will receive Mr. Pagan’s application for a writ of error to revise the judgment given against him by the inferior court, and that there can be no doubt they will do on that application what shall be right. I have the honor to be, with the highest esteem, your most obedient and most humble servant. Th: Jefferson. LETTER XCVII.--TO MESSRS. JOHNSON, CARROL, AND STEWART, March 6, 1792 TO MESSRS. JOHNSON, CARROL, AND STEWART. Philadelphia, March 6, 1792, Gentlemen,