The time for my departure is now so near at hand, that I begin to despair of seeing you in England, which I was very desirous to do. The more so, because I fear you did not receive a letter I wrote you from Cambridge, the very day I I left London, in answer to your note sent to the Tavistock,...

I went yesterday to the house of Commons, returned late, hungry & fatigued, and never heard of your note without date, ’till this morning, on the instant of my departure. I had locked up the paper in my trunk, & English coaches no more than tides, wait for any one. I will keep it with the...

my first wish is a restoration of our just rights

I am sincerely one of those, & would rather be in dependance on Gr. Br. properly limited than on any nation upon earth, or than on no nation. but I am one of those too who rather than submit to the right of legislating for us assumed by the British parl. & which late experience has shewn...

I am sorry the situation of our country should render it not eligible to you to remain longer in it. I hope the returning wisdom of Gr. Br. will e’er long put an end to this unnatural contest.

beleive me Dear Sir there is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a Union with Gr. Britain than I do.