I took the liberty to writ you some time ago but imagine your answer did not come to me which is nothing extraordinary as the Prince of Robecq’s letter was only delivered to me seven days after date my confinement so unfortunate for me has reduced me to the greatest distress and if the prince of Robecq had not had the goodness to order me subsistence out of his own privy purse I should have been all this time nourished on bread and water and slept on Straw which it seems is his Majesty’s allowance for State Prisoners in this province. I intreat you will use your interest with his Excellency for the most expeditious and efficacious measures for my release and I will esteem it a most particular favour for a few lines from you on Receipt and remain assured that your good offices on this occasion shall ever be remembered with gratitude by your humble and most obedient Servant