Williams, if I was (as I am sure I am
not) disposed to it. This is his letter:
'I know not how to express myself, lest I should appear to you to have a
selfish view in the service I would do you. But I really know but one
effectual and honourable way to disengage yourself from the dangerous
situation you are in. It is that of marriage with some person that you
could make happy in your approbation. As for my own part, it would be,
as things stand, my apparent ruin; and, worse still, I should involve you
in misery too. But, yet, so great is my veneration for you, and so
entire my reliance on Providence, upon so just an occasion, that I should
think myself but too happy, if I might be accepted. I would, in this
case, forego all my expectations, and be your conductor to some safe
distance. But why do I say, in this case? That I will do, whether you
think fit to reward me so eminently or not: And I will, the moment I hear
of Mr. B----'s setting out, (and I think now I have settled a very good
method of intelligence of all his motions,) get a horse ready, and myself
to conduct you. I refer myself wholly to your goodness and direction;
and am, with the highest respect,
'Your most faithful humble servant.
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