Obéissant serviteur,
L’Evêque de Moulins.
Stilton,
ce 7 April 1808.
[Translation]
My Lord,
I have received with the letter you have done me the honour to write, the £200 sterling which were enclosed—£100 in bank-notes and £100 in a draft on your Banker in London.
Your kindness to me has reached its highest point, and my gratitude is commensurate, I cannot say enough to convince you how deep it is. To the many things you have done for me, my lord, you still deign to add by busying yourself about the servant I want, and if the affair is successful it will be to you that I owe him, and it will be a fresh kindness for which I shall be indebted to you. It will be a happy day for me when I shall be able personally to renew to you at Milton the assurance of the respect with which I have the honour to be
Your very humble and obedient servant,
The Bishop of Moulins.
Stilton,
7th April 1808.
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Passport of Jean Baptiste David referred to in the Bishop’s Letters