I beg the favor of you to send me down by the bearer, this evening, a pass for Mr. Bird; for whose integrity, honor, & pacific character I make myself responsible. He goes to England, & by the way of Calais.

I dined with Mr Oswald, from whom I have just parted, and no English courier had arrived. Mr Strachey, according to Mr Ridley’s account, embarked at Calais on the morning of the 4th: instant.

I wish you would give my extreme respects to your grandfather, and inform him that I have a note to send him, in favor of the papers which his quaker American friend lately sent him. Yours ever most affy.