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14 through a variety of unforseen accidents I am obliged to write you on such a subject as the present.- The season last year was bad, but I was enabled to pay you. This has turned out much worse, and it being so long before we could get the corn home, it is not yet fit to be sold. I only beg your patience about two months longer, when I hope to pay you faithfully with gratitude.-I am, Sir, your honest tenant, and bumble servant.

The Answer.

Mr. Clover.-I hope that, from the whole of my conduct ever since you first became a tenent of mine you cannot have reason to allege any thing against me. I never treated you with rigour, as I always considered you as an industrious honest man. Make yourself perfectly content concerning the payment of the rent, till I come to the country in the summer, and if things be as you represent and I doubt not but that they are) you may be assured of all reason able indulgence.-I am yours.

From a Young Man who had an opportunity to sat up in Business but destitute of money to a Gentleman of reputed Benevolence.

Honoured Sir,-When you look at the subscription, you will remember me having serveď you with goods when I was apprentice to Mr. Hopkins, grocer in the Strand. I have been a little above two months out with my time, which was spent in his service, and the greatest part of my wages have been given to support an ayrd mother confined to a sick-bed. Mr. Hopkins died about ten weeks ago, and having no family, his executors, (whe are almost all strangers to me) are going to let the shop. My respected master has left me about one hundred pounds in his wil', but that is in no way sufficient