I know not how to express My Obligations to you for introducing me to the Acquaintance and Friendship of Count Segurs. I have known him but a few days and yet he has indulged me with an Intimacy. So many shining, so many amiable Qualities we seldom see united in one Man. He has inspired me with an Esteem, a Respect, and a Love coexistent with myself. Think, my dear Sir, what I must feel at this Moment when I am called to part with him and so many Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Kings Army and Fleet, who allow me to call them my Friends, whose great and good Qualities have seized my heart and from whom I have received the most obliging Attentions. I know not which? is greatest, either the Honor and pleasure they have given me in their acquaintance, or the Regret I feel at parting with them. It is no small Distinction to the Cause of our Country that such men approve it; but that they ardently love it and have so chearfully exposed themselves to such Toils and Dangers in it’s Defence, while it raises us in the Estimation of them ? must captivate all our Work. [hearts?.] In the Field they have honor’d their own Nation and saved our’s. May Heaven defend and bless them, and crown them with fresh Glories. My warmest good Wishes are particularly due to the Count Segurs, whose conversation has so much enlightened and charmed me. May he soon have an happy Meeting with his Family and Friends, and the Pleasure of embracing you. With an ardent and constant Friendship I am my dear Sir, Your’s