Many arrangements might be advantageously made, by which your lordship would indirectly benefit;--that is, the money, so to speak, might be made to go into one pocket, in order that it should be transferred to yours.

Then you have not; a magistrate in your estates devoted to your special interests, as you ought to have; this is a very necessary thing, my Lord, and to which I humbly endeavor to direct your attention.

Again, my Lord, you have no magistrate of true Protestant and Ascendancy principles, who from time to time, might manifest to the government that you did not forget their interests no more than your own.

Now, my Lord, what man can be, or is better qualified to serve your Lordship in all these capacities than that staunch and unflinching Protestant, Mr.Val M'Clutchy?
In what individual could the commission of the peace more appropriately or worthily rest than in your own agent?
I therefore beg your lordship to turn this in your mind, and if advised by one so humble, I would suggest the trial of a short prayer previous to entering on it.

Should you exert your influence for that purpose with the government, the gracious, I trust I may call it so--appointment--would be immediately made, and I think I know the grateful disposition of Mr.M'Clutchy sufficiently well to assure your lordship, that from a thorough Christian sense of your kindness, the two thousand pounds will be, on that condition, placed in your lordship's hands.
"I have the honor to be, my Lord, "Solomon M'Slime.
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