Volume 2 — CHAPTER III. (continued 2)
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"For the sake of convenience you will probably give me the importance of construing this into an incendiary letter. I wish to God you may, and order your treasurer to deposit the acceptance accordingly; for nothing can be so irksome to me as that the nations of the earth should think there had been any interruption of friendship between you and me; and though that would not be the case in fact, both being influenced, I must believe, by a necessity which we could not control, yet the said nations would so interpret it. If I don't hear from you before Friday, I shall conclude that you leave me in this dire scrape to shift for myself.
"R. B. Sheridan, Esq.
"Yours ever,
"Isleworth, Middlesex.
"J. RICHARDSON."
Diben, Friday, 22d.