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Dear Sir
I take no small portion of shame to myself, for having hitherto omitted returning my due acknowledgements for your very obliging letter (of so late a date as the 13th Sepr.) and trust that Loco-motion, may in some measure plead my excuse.
In my short sojourn in Town, I waited upon Mr. Pollock at the Treasury, with the letter you were so kind as to address to him, in my behalf and nothing could be politer than my reception inconsequence; Mr. Pollock would not have delay'd the payment of the £157.12s.3½d due to Wiles when he quitted the Providence at Jamaica, could he have ascertain'd the sum which had been advanced him previous to his quitting England -- but this was to be collected from any of the papers in Mr. Pollocks custody, and Mr. Nepean's illness prevented any intercourse with him, during my stay in Town, or Mr. Pollock very obligingly would have made the
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