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My dearest Son. You may easily believe that Nothing can equal the joy of every Body about the good News from abroad & if it was possible for anything to make it more agreable it would be Yr attention upon the Occasion & the very handsome manner in which You make mention of Yr Brothers behaviour, He seems to have gained great Credit upon the Occasion both as to His Courage & His Humanity in which I am sure all His Brothers would equal Him if put to the task. The Kg of Course must be & is both Proud & happy for I believe that it has worked him for some time as it was suspected deletion it /deletion addition Valencienes /addition could only be taken by Storm of which the Consequences must have been dreadfull, but as the Proverb says foreign: French l'homme Propose & Dieu /foreign