As it has pleased Infinite Wisdom and Divine Goodness to rasie your Excellency up in this his World and mercifully Continued your Important Life to an uncommon Length and Especially your Vigour and most Extensive usefullness and has Endowed you Exalted mind with Such Illustrious faculties which has raised you to Such a High pitch of Honour and Exalted Eminance in the Polite, Litterary, Moral as well as the Politic world That you Good Sir are peculiarly advantaged as well as Situated in Such a Confirmed Sphere of all usefull Science and So Exalted an Orb in the Sublime mysteries of Philosophy mathematicks Jursprudence and Polis which necessarily Constitutes your       the Best man to make my Humble and most important address unto in behalfe of all those pitible Distressed and truly I may Say the most unhappy and Ruined Good People of the heretofor late flourishing town of Charleston next to Boston in the State of the Massachusetts Bay.

Who were the first Sufferers and Misserable objects of the British Burning and murdering troops of any one whole town unprovoaked and      then Salvag          and most Barberous Cruelty in the wanton Destruction of their whole town by fire of any town in all America Considering that murder therein on Bunker Hill whin So maney Gallant troops fell: and perhaps it is the most aggrreavated Instance of British Barbarity and Infernal Cruelty all Circumstances Considred of aney one Instance in all America; for then none in the Country had done aney thing to prevoak or in the Least Injure them troops Except in personal Defence when they ~y2         to kill and mind in as at Lexinton &c. Conssequently no temtation from revenge or retaliation to      them to perpetuate the Horrid Deed.

Neither had they Such an Example          Set before them by aney others of their Like     accomplices in such a Destructive and all Devowering Conflagration.

The Consideration of all which I Humbly trust will in your Good Construction hereof Sufficiently apologize for the future prayd for Instance of Charity for them people bring the first mentioned and Standings foremost of all other Needy objects and in the front of a most Beneficient Commisserations proposed of a most Evangelical and Divine Charity in its Just and ture resemblance of the Spirit of the Gospel and real Christianity flowing forth from pure minds in unfeigned Love and the most tender Sympathizing feelings of Humanity and Christian pitty accompanied to those objects of Charity with all their overwhelming Sorrows they are Constantly feeling from their Loss of almost all their Substance with their pleasent Houses rich furniture Choice apparrel family Stoves as well as their plate many maney of them had so Consumed by them merciless troops so Evilly Set to work in Kindling them Infernal flames; From all which and whole Ex    erated and Diabolical Example in that first Instance      of Burning Charleston    in Like manner been Inflocted in other most abominable Instances in poor and almost ruined America. Whose fellow Sufferers are utterly Incapable at present of affording them that reliefe their Deplorable Sufferings Justly and most powerfull plead, for and from Gospel Charity         them unto ~y3 from their fellow Christians through out the one Grate universal Catholic Church Including Rich France and poor America—in the same.

And Whereas from a most aincient and may I not Way a Primitive Custom as Aincient as the sppostolic ages; for the Citizens of one Country to Communicate their Charities to Suffering Christians of another Country. And Even when there was no Political or Commercial Connection or Emoluments Locking their Intrests together and Cementing the hearts and affections of those Different people of those remote Countries to Each other in A most firm Consiladating and a most Inviolate unity Coming between the people of France and American in their most Happy Confirmed Alliance with Each other Wherefore I do in behalfe of them pitiable good people of Charlestown the Sight of whose ruin and ashes must affect Every Human and Especially the Christian Heart.

That your Excellencys Greate Influence with his most Christian majesty our Greate and Powerfull most Illustrious Alie and His royal ministry and others of the nobility Gentry and yeomenry, of that oppulent Kingdom may by your Grate wisdom goodness and Charily be So Improved in behalfe of them as          Sufferers that it may be proposed by your Self Good Sir to have a Charitable Contribution Set on foort for the reliefe of Charlestown Suffences in the      time and which your prudence thinks best.

And as an Inducement heretoo I most Humbly pray it may be Considered if it Should Succeed in favor of them people the fame ~y4 thereof will at once Effectually Cement the Hearts and affections of the Good people of all america to the political and Comercial Intrests of the People of France and Immediately              Confirm the Brotherhood of both of that Kingdom and these united States and also at the Sametime make the Subjects of the British Tyrant throughout his Cruel and tyranically oppressed Kingdom Blush and be ashamed and Confounded at the Serious Reflection hereof this Charilty of france is here Considred In a Gross Contrast with their Cruel murdering Conduct with americans in their all Devowering wide wasting flames Enkindled at Charlestown to Destroy all their Substance of them people which were then his Dutifull Subjects.—! Horrendous      worke then British English Cruelty—may it be Sounded Forth through out all Europe against Britain and will all the Most Endeating Tenderness and Sympathizing Charity of France now proposed. Should it take place by your Excellencys Happy and Important Influence in              and upon those of that Illustrious Empire and most Rich and flourishing Country.

And ever respectable most worthy Sir who Can fortell what a Glorious     of a Religious nature this most Humbly prayd for favor in the above proposed Charity So Instituted for the Inexpressible Benefit of those misserable and Distressed people and all this goodness perfected through your Excellencys worthy and mediation may have for the uniteing the Intrest and Hearts of that Church in the professons of the protestant Church through out all Christendom in due time by Such mutual kindnesses to and from ~y5 the members of East Church and Essentually allay all that Spirit of firce            in former ages violently Carried on against the pretestants.

Worthy Sir Pardon this my Boldness to your,       Address wherein I assure your Excellency the first worthy Character I Ever mentioned this proposal unto was you own Dear and most worthy and ondly Daughter Mrs. Beache’s Lady for her Consideration at your own Late Dwelling House in Philadelphia the 21:st of September 1779. Whereupon I took the Inocent Simplicity Construing her reply and Conduct thereon not in the Least in opposition thereto in her my most accurate worthy and Charitable Sentiments upon so Humane Human Benevolent and may I not Say most Gospel Subject and Duty of Charity when Confident in all the forementioned Circumstances foreboding Such   Consequences. Most Humbly prqying a transmit of your Excellencys thought and opinion in the to Mr. Beach or his Lady your Dear and Worthy Daughter from Either of Whose        the Intelligence in behalfe of those objects of Charity of Charlestown Suffrnces from your Excellencys very Humble and most obedient Servant at