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J.B. for Henderson to Gullet
This, however, imortant as it has has been to you,
and burthensome to him, has been but one out
a variety of businesses which have been theafforded
matter for subjects of a correspondence which has been
kept up I find with great regularity from the
beginning of last March was twelvemonth to
the present day: a correspondence of which the
advantage has been uniformly and exclusively
your own: the burthen and even the expence
as uniformly his. I have your letters before me in
files: the very posting of them is become an object.
In short during all this while you seem to have
been compleat master of his time and on more
than one occasion of his purse, without any thing
to distinguish his condition from that as a regular
agent of yours, exceptexcepting only the emolument and the title.
And now, Sir, at the close of this correspondence
what recompense do you propose to
make to themhim? ?
You, a man of immense wealth, sole proprietor
of a silver mine worth 256,000, or of
the money that has beenrealised by what has been sold from it: the sale of it: he, a
man whose sole patrimony consists in those rare & useful talents
by some of which he has been so serviceable to
you: involved all the while in the difficulties which
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