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I am heartily sorry that, after all your trouble & expence,
you should be so unjustly frustrated, as to have your business re-
main unaccomphish'd; & I am glad again to find you possest of
such a constancy of mind, that this considerable disappointment has
not the power to disencourage you from ever proceeding further.
As Hope was y^e alluring Guide that brought you hither, so return
not without that comfortable Attendant; for I don't doubt but a
time will come, when y^e noisie preparations of Warr shall not
drown the voice of Justice: & then, when once your Rights shall
come to a Tryal, I shall wish for no surer means to succeed, than
you Pleading, and such a Judge, as (by report) our Grandfa-
ther was, Determining.

It's likely that our Regim^t: will spend this summer in a Cam^paigne
in this countrey; for this day wee receiv'd Orders to keep our selves
in a readiness to march; upon the first notice, to form a Camp.
If your departure is so sudden as your letter mention'd, this
must necessarily be y^e last you can receive from me; of this direction:
therefore it must contain my hearty wishes for your prosperous jour-
ney, & my desires that my Love & Service may be presented to
our Relations (though all unknown to me) in Scotland , & in parti-
cular to your Lady Mother & your Sister: withal hoping that
upon your arrival you'll send me a Direction, so that a Corres-
pondence may be held betwixt you & him who is

For
M^r Spotswoods to be left att
M^rs Mercer's att y^e two black posts in
Charles-street in
Westminster