From Bennet Negus (unpublished)
Dunkirk this 14 july 1781

Knowing your Goddness for my advancement—how can i without Blushes make you so poor a Return as thanks for the many and Weighty obligations you will Laid upon me—i must intreat your Excellency therefore To Suffer this my Slender offering. To approach her Bountifull Exellency and in Somme measure in Sinuate my self into her Good opinion, Till Such Time as my abilities may Speak Louder—Wahtt my Desires with Willingness are framing: and So See, with all immaginable Respect Begging To be Executed, for my no Better performance i must Till a more Seasonable occasion of req   offers it Self,   under the weigt of your favour and Suscribe myself. Your Excellency Must Dutiful and obliged Servant

Bennett

To his Exellency
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