I have carefully reflected upon the subject of your letter of the 27th. instant.

Though the data which it presents authorise an expectation of large pecuniary advantage and though I discover nothing in the affair which an Individual differently circumstanced might not with propriety enter into—yet in my peculiar situation, viewed in all its public as well as personal relations, I think myself bound to decline the overture.

With great regard I am Dr. Sir   Yr. Obed serv