I have received your letter, and the Gentleman whom it introduced to me, I fully concur in your opinion of the propriety of raising a subscription in behalf of the wives and children, and that your late shop is an excellent situation for the purpose.2 Since reading your letter I understand from Mr. Watson that you have altered your opinion as to propriety of letting your Shop to him. I am sorry at his vacillation because I am sure no increased inconvenience would [one word][?] to you from it. You have nothing to expect in the shape of kindness and it would be perfect affectation in you to talk of mercy coming from a quarter where it does not exist. Nevertheless I should be sorry to advise you to a line of conduct [torn] does not meet your [torn] sense of its propriety.
Wooler has set the country a noble example and by his individual exertion has done more to combat corruption and more to serve the people that 10 Regts of soldiers could have {atchieved}. I shall call on you on Sunday and I regret that a pressure of important circumstances have kept me thus long from waiting upon you. I shall want your introduction to Wooler.