The good News of your Excellency’s safe Arrival in this Country found me confin’d to my Bed by the Bruises of a Fall join’d to a painful Disorder, which has continu’d to harass me till within these few Days. I seize the first Hour of being able to hold a Pen, to congratulate you as I do most sincerely, and to express my Wishes that your Residence among us may be attended with every Circumstance that can make it agreable to you. The Services of a feeble old Man rendered inactive by the Infirmities of Age, are scarcely worth offering; but if in the Course of your Mission any thing should occur, in which I might be in any degree useful to your Affairs, or to those of the best of Kings and the most beloved of Nations, your Commands will be receiv’d and executed with Pleasure by him, who is with great Respect, Sir, Your Excellency’s most obedient and most humble Servant.