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 compels me thus importunately, nay, peremptorily, to write to you. Can you think it possible to carry on busines in the manner you act by me? you know what promises you have made, and how, from time to time, you have broken them? Can: I therefore depend upon any new ones you make? if you use others as you do me, how can you think of carrying on business? if you do not, what must I think of the man who deals worse by me than, he docs by others? if you think you can trespass, more upon me than you can on others, that is a very bad compliment to my prudence, or your own gratitude; for surely good usage should be entitled to the same in return. I know how to allow for disappointments as well as any man, but can a man be disappointed for ever? trade is so dependent a thing, that it cannot be carried on without mutual punctuality. Does not the merchant expect it from me for these very goods I send you? and can I make a return to him without receiving it from you? what can it answer to give you two year’s credit, and then be at an uncertainty, for goods which I sell at a small profit, and have only six months’ credit for myself? Indeed, sir, this will never do, I must he more punctually used by you, or else must deal as little punctually with others; and then what must be the consequence? in short, sir, I expect a handsome payment by the next return, and security for the remainder; as I am very loath to take any harsh measures to procure justice to myself, my family, and creditors. Sir, I am, if be not your own fault.

Sir,—I acknowledge with gratitude the lenity you have at all times shown, and my being obliged