Dear Sir

I wrote you yesterday by E. Hall who I left at Gravesend this morning, having seen him that far on his way ー This comes by the Content Capt Medforth who I have already advised you, I had Charter'd, for to be our second Ship this year in Patuxent and in whom Capt Smith comes out a Passenger, but is to Act as a riding Captain in the Country, as you will see more particularly by the Charter Party, a Copy of which he has with him ー This Vessell, as well as the rest, I hope you will contrive to get Loaded some how, it is the last I shall send out this year, and altogether they will not carry 1500 hhds, a less quantity than we have had home any one year, for sometime past and the Accots. Sales I am sure have never been better, nor so good, for which reasons, I say, I hope these Ships will all get Loaded, and to your best care, I recommend them, wishing them every one safe to youー

I am very Anxious to hear from you and wonder much I dont get a Letter by some Conveyance or other, surely it cannot be much longer before I do  Mr Russell has inform'd me he shall close the Commission on the Negroe Affair next week, having already kept it open a long time. I have prevailed upon him to promise to stay untill I can hear from you once more before he does, and that is allー

Manduit is exceedingly Angry that you did not send him any thing by the last Packet as I expected he would ー And I am exceedingly distressed on Account of not having sold any Tobo so long ー and some of our Tradesmen are very Ill temper'd Just now so that I have nothing very pleasant to write you by this Opportunity  You shall hear from me by every Conveyance and for the present I remain ー Dear Sir [&c.]