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 through a variety of unforeseen accidents, I am obliged to write you on such a subject as this. 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 humble servant.

Mr Clover,—I hope that, from the whole of my conduct ever since you first became my tenant, 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 easy concerning the payment of your rent, till I come to the country in the summer, and if things he as you represent, (and I doubt not hut they are,) you may he assured of every reasonable indulgence,—I am yours.

Hon. Sir,—When you look at the subscription, you will remember my serving you with goods when I was apprentice to Mr Hopkin, grocer in the Strand. I have been a little above two years out of my time, which was spent in Mr Hopkin's service, and the greatest part of my wages have been given to support an aged mother confined to a sick-bed. Mr Hopkin died about ten days ago, am having no family, his executors (who are almost strangers to me) are going to let the shop. My worthy master has left me one hundred pounds his will, but that is no way sufficient