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| − | to live on. There are six of us and a
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| − | servant maid. no [[underline]] curtailment [[/underline]] can
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| − | be made in our [[underline]] expenses [[/underline]]. That 82 £
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| − | is [[underline]] allowed [[/underline]], of course, [[underline]] insecure [[/underline]]. We
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| − | must [[underline]] have starved [[/underline]] but for donations
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| − | from the [[underline]] first people [[/underline]] of late in this
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| − | Kingdom [[underline]] persons well known to the
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| − | Genl; and yourselves [[/underline]] one of the royal
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| − | Brothers who [[underline]] visited [[/underline]] Mrs Belson on a
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| − | [[underline]] friendly footing [[/underline]] in her first husband's
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| − | time alive and has [[underline]] often served [[/underline]] us
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| − | once [[underline]] through your hands [[/underline]]. If you
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| − | could bring our [[underline]] situation to your
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| − | exact view [[/underline]] I am sure you would send
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| − | us a triffle not add to our distresses
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| − | many of Mrs B. kindred are your
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| − | friends and [[underline]] "correspondents" [[/underline]] I was
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| − | heir at law to the late Mr Staples
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| − | the once affluent Banker who
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| − | [[unclear]], brought up, under her, from a
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| − | Boy: we have Lords, "Bishops", Barts,
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| − | and M. P.s in our family nevertheless
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| − | [[underline]] who have done much [[/underline]] , many
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| − | have large famillys of their own, so
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| − | no blame to them our situation in
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| − | life.
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| − | I need not tell you an officer
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| − | half pay is [[unclear]] [[underline]] cannot [[/underline]] be sold or
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| − | [[underline]] disposed [[/underline]] of if [[underline]] either [[/underline]] no [[underline]] security [[/underline]] nor
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| − | himself can secure it. In spite of all
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| − | it is a gift for past services to keep
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| − | him from starving. I again say
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