Mr. Louis Tardy informs me that he could obtain an advantageous protection for his Brother who is lately gone to St Domingo if you would kindly signify a favourable opinion of him. I therefore do not hesitate to assure you that the person in question Mr. Gabriel Tardy has been near 5 years with me and I can with truth declare him to be an honest, industrious and intelligent young man possessing the strickest principles of Probity honour and Morality. I am as ever most dutifully and affectionately