To John Adams from Charles Lee

As the enclosed letter, purporting to be from a member of your house, and received by me on the 11th instant, relates to the Privileges of the House, which cannot, [   ] in my opinion, be enquired into, except by the House itself, I have thought proper to submit it to your Consideration

But in as much as any no gross impropriety of Conduct on the part of persons holding commissions in the army or navy of the U.S. ought not to meet with pass without due animedversion, I have [then] directed the secretaries of war and the navy to make enquiry &ca.