I took the liberty to recommend to your protection a lettre to our common Friend Benjamin Franklin, which was of great importance for me. As scarce one letter of three which Dr. Franklin or other of my american Friends have dispatched to me have come to hands, and as the same fatality befell those letters I wrote to him and to others, I should be extremily happy to be informed as soon as possible, if you have recieved allready intelligence that your dispatches which accompanied the lettre I sent you in septembre last has reached Newyork or Philadelphia. This information will spare me a great deal of trouble, which in case of failure of that lettre, I must undergoe, by writing a duplicate and taking many arrangements. I only begg the favour of a line on this head as soon as you will be informed that your dispatches accompanying my letter mentioned has reached america.

I begg you pardon for the trouble I give you and I ame respectfully Dear Sir your most obedient humble servant,