Revised Jun 6 2021

No 113. F's. Const Esq'r. to Miss N. Heywood

My dear Madam

Permit me whilst I congratulate you on the Safety of your Brother, to offer my Acknowledgements for your polite Attention in the early Communication of it. — Give me Leave my dear Miss Heywood to assure you that the Intelligence has given me a Degree of Pleasure which I have not Terms to express; & it is even encreased by knowing what you must experience on the Event. Nor is it an immaterial reflection, that altho' your Brother was unfortunately involved in the general Calamity which gave Birth to the Charge, he is uncontaminated by the Crime, for there was not a credible Testimony of the slightest Fact against him that can make the strictest Friend deplore any thing that has passed, except his sufferings; & his uniform Conduct under them, only proved how little he deserved them. —— I remain my dear Madam

with the greatest &

  most respectful Esteem

    your ob't. serv't.

      F's. Const.

Temple Oct'r. 27^th 1792