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of Lacy & Sanders being 2 thirds at the value of the stock on the 1 Mar by [which] means he wd have only Mr. Brother (then absent at Chittagong) for his ptner, he was tempted by the fair char:r of that Gent to listen to the proposal. And hereupon he made sevl advs of cash till they had drained him of all his cash & paper to the amot of 6855 C: R:
he remonstrated agt the imprudence of going further till Mr. Prothero shod arrive & the agreemt be execd – They sd the house wd be ruined, & then he applied to Mr. Barton & Mr. Bateman, who let him