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I am sorry to have occasion to inform you that your Friend
Mr Alexander Shairpe of Broadstock Buildings is de died
about a month or five weeks ago & still more so that
he died by his own hands, having put an end to his
own Existence one morning just before He & his
wife were about going into his Carriage to take an
airing. He had been in a melancholy way for a
considerable time before even last January when he
went to Buxton wch he was advised to do for the
sake of the Bath there sited. I don't think he had
been well since the death of Mr Shairp the late Consul
at Petersburgh who I take it was his Brother for one
day, when I called upon him soon after that Event
when I observed he wa seemed very much affected,
& greatly disappointed & chagrined that Chas Mr
Shairpe's Son did not succeed his father in the
appointment of Consul, & perhaps the more as he
might have formed some expectation of success thro'
He his own & that of his friend Mr. in the
Company here in which the appointment
lay, but who through the
of Mr Thorne & lay their Sons all
& which carried it in favour of Mr Cayley their
own Partner at Petersburgh The three sons are all
Members of Parliament, which adds to their weight in
point of interest — I don't think Mr A Shairpe ever got
the better in his spirits of that disappointment.

I am desired by a particular friend of mine of
the Secretary of State's Office who has just sent a note with
my letter to beg you will get some information of a abt a Coll
Delafontaine, a Swiss, formerly in the French Service who
went to Petersburg in the French Service sometime since
with the Duchess of Kingston & is supposed to have entered
into the Russian Service in the present War He is about 70

Identifier: | JB/541/026/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 541.
Date_1	1789-03-10	Marginal Summary Numbering
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