Letter from John Belson to General Jacob de Budé, describing his poor health and financial distress, having discovered that the legacy he expected cannot be paid for some time.

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Sir I am so ill, I can hardly hold up my head. To save the life, of myself, or [[unclear]], I cou'd not raise 2 £. as a proof of my distress I have been forced to relinquish a situation of 10 d a day because I had not means of going to it. Can I say more? Every exertion has been made: This legacy can not, at all events, be paid till the time Mrs Belson's daughter could have been of age had she lived. It is Mrs [[unclear]] Opinion which no one would go to law for after having it. in short I have