| Description | Dear Friend,
Most sincerely do I lament the return of your disorder, and the anxiety you are under upon our sons doing their duty in the perilous situation of our country. I rejoyce that Garbett and Whittaker are not skulking, but manfully take the station that becomes gentlemen when they are threat'ned.
I have wrote to Mr. Home, who is one of the most respectable of my family creditors in Scotland, that I will concur in granting Mr. Gascoigne a release on his paying 10 to 15,000£, which Mr. Elphinstone and Balfour said that he 'seriously' intended to remit; and I have wrote to Mr. Gascoigne desiring he would, previously to my engaging to give him a release, let me see copy of the deed that would satisfy him; and I sent Mr. Henderson copies of my letters, and I believe I sent you copies. If Mr. Gascoigne or Mr. Elphinstone will send you copy of the deed I desire, I will immediately obtain an answer, and I hope a favourable one.
I never had a dispute with Mr. Gascoigne except upon pounds, shillings, and pence for our creditors, and Mr. Elphinstone's accusing me of revenge is without the smallest reason. That, and the conversation between him and my son who is dead, should not have been mentioned by Mr. Elphinstone; but I shall not make farther remarks on them, as I will not enter into personal altercations. If Mr. Gascoigne will not make the payment of £15,000 he offered, he must expect some of those creditors who have his bond will apply to him in Russia, as there is reason to believe he has accumulated 100,000£ and that he certainly has an annuity from the emperor of thirty thousand rubles per annum.
God bless and preserve you. I am ever gratefully and affectionately your
Samuel Garbett
I return Mr. Elphinstone's letter. |