To remove the seeming apprehension (expressed of the 13^th. Of February) of your suffering in point of Interest for the money you then discovered you stood in advance for me I wrote you on the first of May following that I had no sort of objections to allowing Interest from thence forward and desired you woud charge it accordingly untill the Debt was Paid; not desiring that you or any body else should suffer in the most trivial Instances on my Account; and I shall now in consequence of your other Letter of the 28^th. of March beg leave to inform you, in terms equally sincere and direct, that it is not in my power I shoud add in a manner convenient and agreable to myself, to make remittances faster than my Crops (and perhaps some few occasional Sums which may fall in my way) will furnish me with the means: but if notwithstanding, you cannot be content with this mode of payments you have only to advise me of it and I shall hit upon a method (tho’ I woud choose to avoid it) that will at once discharge the Debt, and effectually remove me from all further mention of it; For I must confess, I did not expect that a corrispondant so steady, and constant as I have proved, and was willing to have continued to your House while the advantages were in any degree reciprocal woud be reminded in the Instant it was discovered how necessary it was for him to be expeditous in his payments. Reason and prudence naturally dictates to every Man of common sense the thing that is right and you might have rested assured, that so fast as I coud make remittances without distressing myself too much my Inclinations woud have prompted me to it: because in the first place it is but an irksome thing to a free mind to be any ways hampered in Debt; and in the next place, I think I have discovered no intentions, since I have found how the Balle.* was likely to turn, of increasing that Debt (unless it shoud appear in the amount of my Invoices last year which greatly indeed exceeded my expectations but will be ballenced I hope by the contracted one of this year): but on the contrary all the willingness I coud, under the accidents that have happened**, of decreasing it to the utmost of my power; but I have already run into much greater prolixity on this head than I promised or intended. Your answer will determine my measures, and upon this Issue it must rest.