I engag'd to pay Mr Giles, at the approaching Convent<io>n 32½ Guineas, b<u>t if I recollect right, you were so obliging as to promise to settle that Debt for me and to allow me a more convenient Time to repay it. On this Subject, however, we were not explicit, and I must therefore request an Answer to t<hi>s Letter. I am constrain'd t<o a>cknowledge that the <P>ayment of that Money, wo<ul>d, at this Time, <mutilated> to a much greater Inconvenience, than towards the Cl<o>se of <the> present Year, <wh>en I will certainly di<s>charge a Debt, which confessedly, ought not to have existed at this Day. Mr Giles's polite Behavior, on that Occasion, will ever be reme<mbered> by me. I sta<n>d indebted to you <on y>our own Acct s<ev>en Guineas, which shal<l> also be paid at the same Time.

     Your repeated Kindnesses, and disinterested Friendship for me have made the most durable Impression on my Mind; and, be assur'd, if Fortune shou'd ever put it in my Power to be of Service to you, the Oppo<rtu>nity shall be chearf<ul>ly embrac'd.

     Permit me again, Sir, to request the Honor of a Letter from you— One address'd to me, in Staffd County, near Dumfries, will shortly be receiv'd. With the highest Esteem I am your <m>uch oblig'd Friend and hble Servt