I come to beg the favour of you to go a Shopping for me in your Cabriolet one morning I want a dressed Coat very bad for the Winter, of course Velvet is the stuff, & if you remember le Marqs. de la Vieuville had, in my time, a plain Velvet or ratine with a very genteel Button to it which was Sett with Paste or Diamand: If you remember it I shall exceedingly obliged to you to buy me the fellow to that, I dare say you’ll find them at the petit Dunkerque. The stuff colour & Work I entirely leave to your Taste, as likewise if there is any new fashions come out in point of Shapes. My Taylor is Renaud, lives rue du Roule entre deux Ferblantiers. if he has preserved my Measure please to leave the stuff with him to be made up into a dressed Coat & Waistcoat, when done please to order it to be carefully packed up & send to André Carmier at Calais who will have instructions concerning it. & If there are any New Buckles that you much approve of, not very dear, I Shall take it as an additional favour to buy me one exactly for your own foot, altho mine is double the size the tout ensemble then you Know may cheminer together I should not like to exceed 25 Guineas for the whole.

Be So good my dear sir as to pay all these Separate little Bills & to tell my Brother the omnium gatherum. & he will repay it with many thanks for me.

Here is a Note for the Taylor which I beg you will inspect & augment with your own prescriptions concerning the present Taste.

You cannot imagine how distressed I was at my being so far from Town when you came over. it distressed me beyond any thing I should have been so happy to have shaked hands with my good friend Billy F: & to have been of Service to you, however I hope my letters reached you & were of Service

Adieu my good sir, my duty to your Grand Papa; I was in Dublin lately where they are much divided, & now I hear there are some Disturbances in Scotland.

de rechef tout à vous de coeur Your most affate. friend