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you mention. The state in which that connection stands at present is as follows.
About the latter end of last year S. sent a considerable sum for ducats as before:
authorising P. to retain what was due to him as per account delivered. D. coming
to Riga with a recommendation from P's partner and a great medical reputation
very deservedly obtained from an extraordinary chirargical cure performed during the
voyage, and finding T. brought to death's door by a lingering disorder, was received
into his house, and fitted him for a matrimonial engagement there, which
he has since consummated in breach of a prior one at Edinburgh. The method P.
took to recompense D. was to discharge with S's money what debts D. had contracted
there for cloaths and other such personal expences, on pretence of the
agreement T. had drawn up between D. and S., the purport of which was that
if upon his coming to Crichoff they should engage in any joint undertaking,
(which they have never done) or that D. gave any assistance in certain parts
of his then subsisting concerns (which he never has done) D. should have a certain
share of the profits. P. was at the same time authorised to retain what
might be necessary for the then expences of the cargo consigned to him by Mr King
he accordingly retained a sum about equal to the prime cost promising at the
same time an immediate account by the then next post; which account has
never yet arrived, though written for 3 or 4 times since, in the most friendly
but the most pressing terms; alledging the distress S. would be and in for the
want of the information contained in it in respect of the settling account
with people at Cherson &c. No answer to all this however Mr Wilson's
letter enclosing yours' and directed to the Postmaster at Riga came through that
channel with their compliments in the cover. This method taken by the house
which S. quitted for this to make the connection answer to them was by
Charging as paid at the Custom house money which was not paid, to the amount.
I think it was of about half as much again as was really paid. This was
discovered by D., the false charges deducted, and S. has the account here article
by article. A "great failure there by which T's horse were considerable sufferers, may
help to account for this behaviour. As to B's, his was altogether unacceptable
it vented itself in conduct expressive of the highest degree of rage and malice
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