I cannot, cease to trouble you while my All is at stake, my Mind at the highest Reach of Pain and Anxiety, and only to be determined and reliev’d by your Excellency’s Interference. without which of what Consequence to me, are Resolutions of Congress, however favorable to my Interest they may have been passd. I am Sir, without your Assistance in these two Cases, all but ruin’d. Mr. Ridley who politely offer’d his Assistance in my absence has never let me hear from him. I am therefore totally ignorant how my Affairs stand. I have tho’ my Corespondent at Boston deposited mony with Mr. Jona. Williams at Nantes, should it be wanted: and to be drawn for, by Mr. Ridley. The Amt. of this Acct. and? is to me very Considerable and its Consequence nearly my Existence. We were unfortunately taken on our Passage by a British Man of War and consequently I became a large sufferer. By a Recapture we were brot into this Place where as an Owner I am involv’d in a Lawsuit, the End of which Courts in this Country being so dilitory in giving Judgment, I am unable to ascertain. I have till then, settled in my Profession and where I beg your Excellency to address for me. I am Your Excellency’s Most Obedient and most Humble Servant.