FROM THE BISHOP OF CLOGHER[1].
I HAVE a letter of yours of a very long date, and should, it may be, out of good manners have answered it long since; but I thought it would be better to delay the answer I was then able to make, to our first private meeting, which I thought might be soon; and for the same reason that delayed me then, I shall put off my defence till I have the pleasure of half an hour's private conversation with you, when I think I shall be able to clear myself from the heavy charges you bring against me; and therefore, not to take any farther notice of that letter, I shall, in answer to your last, which I received by last post, return you my thanks for your having taken the same care about the sixty pounds, which at your request I lent Joe Beaumont, whose circumstances at that time I was pretty much a stranger to, as you have taken about the money you lent him on the same occasion, and as this shall serve for a full discharge of all demands I have on Joe's execution[2], so I shall take it as a favour, if you will take on you the trouble of disposing of that sum of fifty[3] pounds, as an augmentation to your own charitable fund, or to any other charitable use you shall judge proper, and that I desire may be without any mention of my name.
- ↑ Dr. Sterne.
- ↑ This execution was against the heirs or representatives of Mr. Beaumont, who had died several years before the date of this letter.
- ↑ A few lines before it is sixty pounds.
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