Little did I imagine, when I wrote you from Dover, of the Inconveniences I had experienced on the Passage, and of the Uneasiness I then felt, and which I supposed was caused by the Sea Sickness, that the Result would be a fever and Ague! But Alas! it is too true. That very Night on my Arrival at Cantorberry I was seized with a shivering, it did not however prevent me continuing my Journey hither the next Day, when I arrived early in the Evening: I was not well enough however to wait on my Father that Night, and went to Bed at the Hotel where I had stopt at: I pass’d a very bad Night—and was little better the next Morning—I made shift however to get to my Father’s, whence I have not been able to stir since, and indeed it is lucky he was here, or I should not have known what to do with myself in the situation I am in. He is exceedingly attentive to me, as is the Lady of the House where he lodges,—We have had the best Advice—and I have complied very minutely with what has been advised me. The Dr. has hopes that I shall not have another Access. Yesterday’s was most Violent—I never in my Life suffer’d so much. This is my well day, and if I have no Return of the Fever tomorrow, I shall in a few Days be able to go about. As yet I have deliverd none of my Recommendatory Letters—the others I have forwarded, together with the Watch for Mr. Magellan—and the Packet of the Comes. Rapport, to Sr. Jos. Banks. Pray inform M. LeRoy of this and remember me to him and my other Friends in the most affectionate manner.

I just received your Letter of the 25 Augt. through Mr. Vaughan; It was brought me by Le Fevre, who enquired much after you. Lord Shelburne is not in London but is expected shortly: By the Way, you only enclose me a Letter for him, tho’ you mention more. I shall do what you recommend relative to Mrs. Holt—and shall certainly call on Mde. d’Hauteville. My Father had great Pleasure in receiving your Letter—and will answer it particularly as soon as he can hear from Mr. Galloway, who is in Wales.

I have taken a very pretty Lodging just by—whither I intend to repair as soon as the fever leaves me; it is on the Skirts of the Town in an excellent Air—and commands an agreable Prospect of the Country. It is situated where Mary-le bone Gardens where formally. This will in some Measure give you an Idea of the prodigious increase of Houses in this City. Its Inhabitants are I suppose much the same in Number.

Farewell, my dearest Sir, I fatigue myself and you too. My Father joins me in most dutiful and cordial Affection—