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Resolution at Sheerness May & 31st/71
Sir
I yesterday receiv'd your favour, and indeed am very sorry, I'm not to have the honour of attending you the other bout; Am exceedingly oblig'd to you, my good Sir, for your kind concern on my account: but have stood too far on this tack to think of putting about with any kind of credit, so must have recourse to my old Maxim, "if I can't do as well as I wou'd, I'll do as well as I can" and fear not, but I shall weather all. Thank you very heartily for the trouble you have taken in calling upon Lord Rochford; your civilities to me have been such, that go where I will, do me the justice to believe Sir, I shall ever carry a most gratefull [grateful] sense of them, and joyfully embrace any opportunity to convince you how ready I shou'd be to express it. Captain Cooke [Cook] never explain'd his scheme of Stowage to any of us. We were all very desirous of knowing, for it must have been upon a new plan intirely [entirely]; know he kept whatever scheme he had quite a secret: for Cooper ask'd my opinion and repeatedly declar'd he cou'd form no idea