Sent to Jefferson by the author on November 15, 1801, with a letter written from Alexandria in which he states that he is a citizen of the American Republic.

Jefferson replied on December 4: “ Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Workman and his thanks for the pamphlet sent him which he shall peruse with pleasure. The event of peace will leave territorial possessions in their present state until the men of Europe shall have recovered breath and strength enough to recommence their sanguinary conflicts which they seem to consider as the object for which they are brought into the world. ”

On March 13, 1807, Joseph C. Cabell wrote to Jefferson from Williamsburg, Virginia: “I hope no apology is necessary for the liberty which I take in sending you the Book accompanying this; as it may throw some light on one of the principal characters who stands accused of an agency in the late conspiracy in the west, and may cast a distant & feeble ray on the conspiracy itself. For some time past, in reading the accounts of the transactions at New Orleans, my eye has been arrested by the name of Workman. Having once known a gentleman of that name, I entertained doubts whether he might not be the same person. But as it is said he once resided at Charleston, and as Col ^o. Freeman in his report published in the National Intelligencer of the 4 ^th. Inst. gives other particulars of his life, I am now confirmed in my opinion as to the identity of the persons. The Book which I now send you is a collection of well-written pamphlets from the pen of Judge Workman, at the time that he was a student of Law, in the Middle Temple, in London; and you will perceive, that the last is a plan for the conquest of the Spanish provinces in America, and is, in fact, the very proposition to the English Government on that subject, which Col ^o. Freeman mentions in his Report.

"As I was going round from Norfolk to Charleston, in company with my Brother William, in the winter of 1801-2, I happened to become a fellow passenger with M ^r. Workman and his lady. Accident led us all to the same Boarding House in Charleston, and we passed most of the winter together. I was much pleased with the talents and information of M. W, & then received from him the present of this little volume. I knew not what motive had induced him to leave England; but he seemed to have come to our country, with those indefinite expectations of success generally entertained by the Foreigners who visit us, and those especially who feel the consciousness of talents. At the time I saw him, he appeared to have conceived a strong disgust at the manners, customs, & character of the Americans; and told me, that if he should ever write again, it would be on this subject. I supposed he had not been as well received as he had wished, & ”