Mr. B. tells me that he has [sent] you an exact Account of his Misfor[tune.] The Bills are come back protested, a[nd] he says his Brother is bound with him for the Payment of them with Interest, the Creditors having agreed to give up their Claim to Damages, on Account of its being a particular hard Case. But I can’t learn that his Brother gives him the Money to pay the Bills, but only becomes his Surety till he can contrive to get the Money to discharge them himself. But the Amount is greater than the Sum he is worth by his own Account, which Account too I am credibly inform’d must be greatly exaggerated. Mr. Ross[?] told [torn] that Mr. B. had often attempted [to d]eceive him about his Circumstances but that he was well convinced he was not, before this unlucky Affair happened, worth any thing if all his Debts were paid. In short that he is a mere Fortune Hunter, who wants to better his Circumstances [by] marrying into a Family that will support him. For my Part, I dont know what to make of all the different Accounts I hear of him; but I think it evident that these Bills have involved him in a Load of Debt greatly more than he is worth, and that if Sally marries him they must both be entirely dependent on you for Subsistence. For if he should get forward in the World he must repay his Brother. Do burn this.