Tho I am several Letters in your Debt, I must at present confine myself to the Subject of your three last vizt. of the 8th & 11th. Inst. & another without Date, tho subsequent to the former.1

The true Reason for taking & lodging in the Post Office, the Letters brought by the Virginia to Cadiz, is not difficult to conjecture. There is however such an ordinance as the one which was urged as a Pretext for it. On recg your last Letter I waited upon his Exy the Count DFlorida Blanca, & informed him of the several Circumstances of this Transaction. He had not recd. your Memorial to the Govr., and the next Day I wrote him a Letter reciting it.2 He promised to turn his Attention to this Subject, and gave me Reason to expect that more equitable Regulations will be made. Some Letters & papers mentioned by my Correspondents as sent by the Virginia are missing.

I am much obliged by your friendly Attention to my little Commissions and for your offer of executing any further ones—3 There is a kind of coarse strong Cloth worn by Labourers in this Country, which I think would make good warm Cloathing for Negroes in our northern States. My Family has a Parcel of them to provide for—4 but as from the Risque of Capture I do not chuse to venture much in one Vessel, be pleased to send fifty or sixty Yards of this Cloth, with a sufficient Quantity, to line it, of the lighter stuff used for that Purpose, for Mr Robt. Morris, whom I desire by the enclosed Letter5 to inform my Brother of it in Case it should arrive safe— Be pleased also to make out my private account & draw upon me for the Amount of it payable at twenty Days Sight

Your inadvertently breaking the Seal of one of my Letters needs no appology, such accidents will sometimes happen to the most Cautious— I am Dr Sir very sincerely Your most obt Servt