I have duly recd your favor of Sep. 8. informing me that your connections of business with messrs Leroy & Bayard of N.Y. are discontinued, and that your agency, in this country1 is now transferred to Mr Gul2 Ludlow of the same place, to which notice I shall pay due attention in the payments I have still to make on your account. I am truly sensible of the kindness with which your house has indulged me in those heretofore made   you are doubtless informed of the distressed state to which this country has been reduced by the abuse of banking instns, by the fluctuations in the value of money and3 of property which these introduced first flooding us with circulating paper far beyond what was salutary4 then calling it in and leaving us suddenly without a sufficiency for ordinary exchanges, and thus rendering property unsaleable but at enormous sacrifices. a repletion of the circuln can only be by the gradual5 influx of metallic money, and during this slow opern even small forbearances are conveniences. you are still so kind in your letter as to express your willingness to recieve my balance either in an entire payment or at regular instalmts as may be most convent to me. I had assured messrs Leroy & B. of an entire payment in the ensuing spring, and should have certainly made it, but shall find a real convenience in the additional6 indulgence now offered and will avail myself of it so far as to say that of the balance of 2083.20 D now remaining due 1083.20 shall be paid in the ensuing spring (say May or June until which time the crop of the present year will7 not get to market) and the remaining 1000.D. at that time twelvemonth, exclusive of the interest which will be due at each respective payment8 and that this shall be done with punctuality. your desire is perfectly reasonable, to close this object finally and to relieve your9 books from this small & lingering transaction,10 and I feel it a duty of gratitude to fulfill your wish;11 and reiterating my acknolmts for so much accomodn & beggg leave to place here the expressions of the sincere attamt I entertd12 to my old friends and personal acqces13 of your house & names, I pray you to accept assurances of my great esteem & respect for yourselves