I wish you had discharged Green without any ceremony when you found him drinking and idling his time away; as to any reliance, on his promise to amend there can be no sort of dependance: for it has been found that he is growing worse and worse the consequence of which is that he dare not find fault with those who are entrusted to his care lest they shd. retort and disclose his rascally conduct; by which means work that the same number of hands would perform in a week, takes mine a month. Nothing but compasion for his helpless family, has hitherto induced me to keep him a moment in my service (so bad is the example he sets); but if he has no regard for them himself, it is not to be expected that I am to be a continual sufferer on this acct. for his misconduct.