Mr Jays acquaintance with the Count de Rechtoien who does me the honor to ask an Introduction to your Excellency might preclude the necessity of the present address, if I had not a strong desire of convincing the Count of my sense of his Civilities and of my connection with you. I might from your Long Silence conclude that he will owe much more to his own merit than to my Introduction, if the strong desire that I have always manifested to be regarded amongst the number of your friends and the proofs that I have heretofore received of your Indulgence did not flatter me, that in this Instance your Reception of the Person whom I have the honor to present to you will not fail to convince him that you regard me still among the number of your Excellency’s obliged friends and Humble Servants