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to live on. There are six of us and a servant maid. no underline curtailment /underline can be made in our underline expenses /underline. That 82 £ is underline allowed /underline, of course, underline insecure /underline. We must underline have starved /underline but for donations from the underline first people /underline of late in this Kingdom underline persons well known to the Genl; and yourselves /underline one of the royal Brothers who underline visited /underline Mrs Belson on a underline friendly footing /underline in her first husband's time alive and has underline often served /underline us once underline through your hands /underline. If you could bring our underline situation to your exact view /underline I am sure you would send us a triffle not add to our distresses many of Mrs B. kindred are your friends and underline "correspondents" /underline I was heir at law to the late Mr Staples the once affluent Banker who unclear, brought up, under her, from a Boy: we have Lords, "Bishops", Barts, and M. P.s in our family nevertheless underline who have done much /underline , many have large famillys of their own, so no blame to them our situation in life.

I need not tell you an officer half pay is unclear underline cannot /underline be sold or underline disposed /underline of if underline either /underline no underline security /underline nor himself can secure it. In spite of all it is a gift for past services to keep him from starving. I again say