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I am favored wt yours of the 18th. inst.
and would have answered it in course but
was in the country. Of the feverish fit, you
had soon after you left this I take no notice
because I suppose it is now quite over and
I write only an answer to your other questions.

With regard to the danger of capture in
going to Jamaica, you are a much better
judge of it than I am, but I must say, that it
would be a disagreable accident in your
situation. Bating that hazard I think a
voyage to Jamaica; I would prefer very much
to a voyage up the streights in the winter
season. Two or three years ago, I had a
gentleman who set out in the month of Novr:
from Glasgow [Cast?] ¹ and after a passage of two
months arrived there & died in a fortnight after,
owing, as every body thought to the bad weather
he met wt in the passage. I say further that if
you manage the Climate of Jamaica
as I have desired it will do better then the
South of France. However I told you fairly
of the danger of a very warm climate &

The portable soup is to be used by diss¬
olving a bit of it about the bigness of the end
of your thumb in a muchkin of boiling
water & this will make a mess of broth.
Into wtc. you may put a spoonful or two
of boiled barley or Rice, or without either
of these, you may take it wt bread.

If you find the broth either too strong or too
weak, you may alter the proportions of
the portable soup at your pleasure.
If the Seton in your side does not discharge
any matter, you may take it out, but in
place of it you should put a Pea Issue
into you arm or behind your shoulders.