I am extremely obliged to your Excellency for your very kind & polite offer of a Guard for my Security at Persippeney.1 But as I am pretty commodiously lodged in my present Quarters, & so near my family as to have constant Intercourse with it, I cannot think of putting the men to that trouble for my sake.

Agreeable to your Excellencys Invitation, I shall do myself the Honour of dining with you to morrow, & am with great Esteem Dear Sir your Excellency’s most humble servant