I send you Mr Lees letter Just recd by express, & will thank you after you have considered it, to inform me your opinion. Mr Alexander is entitled to no favor from us; but it may be a serious question whether the interest of ourselves & of those we represent will not be promoted by yielding to the proposition which is made or something like it?

     If by selling for ready money there should be a large deficit, and Mr Lees personal estate should be insufficient to make it up, which I fear is the case, the Legatees might be considerable losers.  Affectly yrs