You will please to call to Mind that I presumed to inclose to your Excellency a little Book, which I published, Viz. Prosody made easy. The very polite Answer, which you returned, your unexpected Liberality at so seasonable a Time can never be forgotten by me. The Mode of paying the Debt due by me to you was such a Proof of Politeness, Liberality, and universal Benevolence, as impressed me with the deepest Sense of the Favour. I take the Liberty of troubling you with a short Specimen of a few little Books, which I humbly hope would facilitate the Acquisition of the Roman Language and by smoothing the Way, give me Time for other Studies. Should the Plan merit your Approbation, I would be proud of the Honour of being permitted to deviate [dedicate?] all the little Books (mentioned in it, including the Prosody) to your Excellency, for I think your Name would be an Advantage to me, and would be glad to make a public Acknowledgment of your Kindness to me and Mandkind in general.

The Letter, which you did me the Honour of sending me, when I was a Prisoner at Valognes in Normandy about two years ago, would now, if I had it, be of much service to me, because I am now sailing past the Downes on my Way to Portsmouth in Virginea, but about half a year after I burnt it, on hearing, that some people had been lodged in Newgate in London, on a Suspicion of holding a Correspondence with the Enemy and tho’ the Letter, which I had the Honour of having from your Excellency contained nothing political, yet I then thought it prudent to annihilate it, tho’ I was very sensible, that being preserved, it might be one Day useful to me and answer the End of a Letter of recommendation to a Professorship in some of the American Colleges, for you there did me the Honour of saying that there was no Doubt, but I would make a useful Member of Society in America either as a Professor in a College or as a Clergyman. The Colleges, I suppose will be re-established soon, and I humbly hope, that I am not altogether unqualified for undertaking a Professorship in Latin, Greek, Logic, Geometry, Astronomy, Natural or Moral Philosophy. I trust that I can produce such Testimonies, as may not be disapproved of.

Tho’ I cannot ask, yet I cannot help wishing for a Letter from your Excellency, which could not but be a most Advantageous Introduction of me into the new World to which I am now bound. Should your Excellency think proper to honour me with an Answer, please to direct to me in Portsmouth Virginea. I have the Honour of remaining with much Gratitude your Excellency’s very much obliged and very humble Servant