I have sent to Billy by this Post a Copy of my last Memoire to M de Vergennes, supported by those of my Creditors who are of this Town and were of the Meeting, with Copies and Extracts of several Letters I have received. I send also the originals of these Letters to prove the veracity of the Extracts. As they extend to matters foreign to the subject and are too lengthy to be given to the Minister please to certify the verity of the Extracts, after examination, so as the Originals may be immediately returned to me.

You observed to me in your last kind Letter that there was no situation in Life in which a man might not, by conducting well, do himself honour; this is more my Ambition than any View of Fortune, and I declare to you in the Sincerity of my Heart, that I look forward to the Day I shall have satisfied all my Creditors, with more eagerness, than ever my Imagination excited me to do in any other View. I beg you will read Attentively the Letters I have sent, and after considering that not one of the writers knew the others sentiments you will conceive of the Pleasure I enjoy; I wish you to believe that notwithstanding all this Favour nothing on Earth shall tempt me to do the smallest Act in Favour of any one Creditor to the Prejudice of the whole, and I expect the Indulgence of my Friends only as my Conduct shall Answer this Principle. I trust I shall not reckon among my misfortunes any diminution in your Esteem and am as ever most dutifully and affectionately Yours.