Quincy February 5. 1811

Venerable Sir

Thanks for your fare over the 28th of January. Imprisoned by a tremendous snow storm, which has now raged for six days and blockaded all the roads worse than King George's Proclamation, and seated before a comfortable fire side, it gives me pleasure to answer you.
It is not at all improbable that I may get "the start of you to the World of souls". There we shall have neither snow storms nor political earthquakes, no politicians, no congresses, no philosophists, as I hope and believe.
Don Orris's motto for your invention is excellent. "Libertad o' La Muorte" is admirable for a War Flail.
Of the war in Spain, or at least of its issue and termination I can form no competent judgment. About an hundred years ago, Louis 14th set up the Duke of Anjou, and the Roman Emperor. The Queen of England and the State of Holland sett up the Arch Duke Charles of Austria for King of Spain and after ravaging and disoluting that kingdom for many years, and consuming the lives of two or three hundred thousand soldiers, Louis carried his point at last.
Is Napoleon a greater "Tyrant than Louis, or his