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27 Howley Square Margate, 5th August Sir I have delayed returning you my sincerest and best thanks for the £20 received here and for [[underline]] all favours [[/underline]] in hopes of telling you I am on my way to join the Stafford Supplementary. I had a letter from Col.l. Elliot dated the 27th of July desiring me to hold myself in hourly readiness to join him.That I should hear from him the moment he heard from Lord Uxbridge, to whom he had sent my name for approval, [[underline]] That post [[/underline]] since which, I have never heard a word, but another vacancy, has occur'd. This will plead my excuse I hope for not sooner acknowledging your enclosure of an order on Messrs Cobb & Son here: