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our Government are not yet constrained to purchase of any particular House.  I make this remark as this poor man has applied and proposed to print such Cards and Books as are now used in all the public Schools, and offred to do the work for less than Half the prices now being paid. yet it cannot be changed. You may ask why. I answer there is a Ring. parties won and Race this Ring for their own advantage or proffit and we the people must pay the pipers of the party.  
I enclose a small slip of paper made from Sedge Grass - a Grass that grows in Abundance and Spontaniously on all our Sea Coasts. By a process Invented by the same man such printing paper may be made in any quantity and at one Half the