| Description | (Marked "(Private)" on the address-label. The letter has been deliberately censored-presumably after its receipt-several words having been struck through, but these words are still legible, and they are shown in square brackets in the following transcript.)
Dear sir,
Inclose I send you a Copy of a Letter I have sent to Mr. [Dumergue].-If any anxiety prevails in the mind of Miss B., (wch I daresay is not the case), I am sure your affectionate regard to her will soon put an End to it, for the sake of her health & comfort. But, I conceive, with you, that the letter I received proceeded only from that spirit of intrigue which the best Swiss always have. And I imagine that your [Daughter] has no kind of apprehension of being left [dependent].
I hope she will long continue dependent upon you; unless a good husband should create another kind of dependence.
I am promised £15000 of the Scrip or Omnium, or it may perhaps be twenty thousand for you.* I am in the Banker's List & the Stock Exchange.-I tried to get into Curtis's. But he is full.
I am Dr sir, Yrs truly,
A Weston
Fenchurch Street
23 Feb 1802.
*I could not get more & therefore have none for M & R Boulton J & G Watt & Co.
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