I will trouble you, my dear sir, to prepare an order for your father to sign in my favor upon Mr Grand, for 1000 livres, for which the inclosed is his security. I shall remit the money via Ostend, (where Mr Bell tells me the thing can be done at par;) and negotiate the matter, either in my journey back, if I go by Ostend; or else direct it to be settled by Mr Mannings’ connections in Flanders, when I arrive in London—I am sorry for this trouble, but the purchases I have made call for money faster than I at first intended.—You will observe that the money is to be without deduction, and therefore your order will be of the nature of a draft in Paris.

I pray for our parent’s health, and hope you will tell me by the porter that he is better, which god grant! I am always yours, faithfully & affecty.