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which pertained to the deceased Sir Robert Burnet of Leyes, ammounting to the
sum of Four hundred and twenty pounds sterling, and the same is hereby attested
by us, the aprtiators. Witness our hands, at Aberdeen, this twelth day of Feb?
One thousand seven hundred and sixty years.
PETER REID.
XLI.
WILLIAM JOHNSTON.
LETTER, Alexander Burnett of Kemnay to Sir Andrew Mitchell.
DEAR SIR,
Berlin, Friday, i4th June, 1765.
I am now to answer by the Return of Anthony, who has finished all his
Business here, the Letter you did me the honour to write, by him, of the i8th of
April last.
With regard to the Insinuation which, in the Beginning of the Letter, you
desire me to make to Pollux in case a certain Event should happen, I shall only
say, that as Castor at the Time I received the Letter was so well recovered from
his late dangerous Indisposition, I did not think proper to make use of it. I
cannot, however, conceal from you, that Castor's Constitution has suffered a
severe Shock from his last Illness, and by the best Information I have been able
to procure, he will never be the man he was, not that the Vigour and Faculties of
the Mind are in the least hurt, but His bodily Strength is greatly impaired ; there
remains such a prodigious Weakness in his Legs and Thighs that it is still with
the utmost Pain and Difficulty he can walk for a quarter of an hour; The
Physicians think he will never get the better of this Infirmity, and that a much
less severe attack than the last, if it should not prove mortal, will be attended
with the most fatal consequences to the mental Faculties, which is worse than
Death itself. Castor's future State of Health being so very precarious and
uncertain, I shall be very watchfull, and you may be assured that, on the first
appearance of Danger,
manner you direct.
I shall not fail to make the Insinuation to Pollux in the
In my former Letters I have given you as succint and particular Accounts as
I possibly can of the various Schemes of Trade and Commerce proposed here by
Adventurers, and which have been adopted by Castor, so that I have very little
to add upon that Head; Allow me, however, to observe with you that his