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T is now about the time I promiſe payment to Mr. Brooks, which I have performed in the beſt manner I was able. I wish it had been done more to your ſatisfaction, but the thing was impoſſible. I here return you hearty thanks for the favours which I received, it being all the tribute I am able to pay. There is a certain anonimous perſon, whom you have ſome knowledge of, who I am informed has taken ſome pains to make the world believe he has done me ſervices, I wiſh that ſaid perſon had never troubled his head about my affairs, I am ſure he had no buſineſs with them, for it was intirely owing to his meddling, that I came pennyleſs to this place: whereas, had I brought 20 l. in with me, which I could eaſily have done, I could not then have miſſed getting my bread here, and in time have been able to come to terms with my plaintiff, whoſe lunacy I believe could not have laſted allways I muſt not here conclude, for my meddling friends man, Sancho Pancho would perhaps take it ill, did I not make mention of him; therefore if it lies in