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Soho Square
Feb. 17. 1795.
My Dear Sir
I greive with the most unfeignd sincerity at the state to which the ill fortune of an attack unexpected by the inhabitants of your Colony & unprovided against by the Court of Directors has reduced you. I read with horror the enormities committed by the Buccaniers who attackd you but for the honor of human nature I hope they are unauthorisd by the National Convention & that the perpetrators of them will be disclaimd, the event however must speak for itself & determine whether the French as a Nation make War against those who without arms in their hands promote with vigor the cause of human Freedom.
Respecting necessaries of which you are so entirely in want the Directors of the Company tell me that with those purchasd from the Achilles those now sending out by the Army & the Ocean as well as what will follow with all possible speed there will be a sufficiency so that individuals will not have occasion to interfere in favor of their Friends with respect to the implements of a Naturalist Mr. Marsham I understand will furnish you with the Entomological Tackle Mr Forster with paper & I am sending you some bottles for your spirit collections more will follow by the next opportunity.
It occurrs to me however that as you do not receive a Salary from the Co. you may be distressd for the means of purchasing such necessaries as you have occasion for Should that be the case I beg you will draw upon me for the amount I have no doubt but that my good friend Gov.r Dawes & probably