After a very disagreable Passage, which lasted from 8 last Night to 8 this Morning, we arrived here safe. I was sick the whole Passage—and I think more so than in either going or returning from America. Mais comme en toutes Choses, “il faut toujours regarder la Belle Jambe,” I flatter myself with the Notion that it will prove a Crise salutaire, as Mesmers stiles it; and which you Doctors have decided as fatale, or very near it. I am now however pretty well recover’d, having been to Bed for a few Hours—and made a Hearty Dinner on Beef Steaks and Potatoes—with which I have with great Pleasure renew’d acquaintance. I am just now starting for London—but as there is no occassion for hurrying or fatiguing myself, I shall sleep at Canterberry to Night, and make an easy Day’s Journey of it to morrow by getting to London.

I told you in a former Letter, that I had hopes of making some Arrangement, by which you would receive the English Papers cheaper than hitherto per Post: I now think I have compleated it, and in a very advantageous manner, by means of Mr. Thompson here; who will receive them from London free of any Charges of Postage or Carriage, and will put them first under Cover to you, and then under one to Dessein, who has promised me to forward them to you in the most expeditious and least expensive manner possible; either by the Stage Coaches, the B. Minister’s Couriers, or private Travellers. The Papers I have directed, (but which I can Change if you think proper) are Woodfalls Morg. Chronicle—and the London Do. You will probably begin to receive them in a fortnight; it will therefore be well to countermand your others: Write me your Intentions thereon. I can pay Mr. Pott’s his Advances, which I fancy must be considerable, if you have not already reimbursed him in part. I have also settled with Mr: Thompson concerning the Family Picture of the Marquis de la Fayette. He will immediately forward it to Mr. Johnson, with the Amount of his Expences thereon, to whom I shall reimburse the whole of the Charges in sending it to America; This I think was what you wished. By the Bye, this Mr. Thompson is a sensible and obliging Man, and very willing to render us any Service. He is in the Wine Way here, and is Father to the Young Thompson you saw at Passy, in his Way to or from Mr. Williams’s at Nantes.

The Horses are to—I must take my leave of you till I get settled in London. With the sincerest affection and Gratitude, I am ever, Honoured Sir, Your dutiful Grandson