Thomas Mullett, Bristol, to Edmund Burke, 27 July 1776. 

Bristol 27 July 1776

Dear Sir

   By this Post I received a Letter from Mr MacGauran enclosing yours of June 22. I fear he introduced himself to you more confidently than his personal acquaintance with any of your friends here would altogether warrant. About three months since I heard by accident of a Person at Lodgings in my neighborhood, who had lately arrived from America, and who was reported to be in distress’d circumstances. I made enquiry respecting him, and finding him destitute both of money and friends I gave him some little relief, and also mentioned his Case to our friend [Llewelin?] and some others, to whose bounty he remains under some obligations. As he wished to proceed to Ireland, where he told me his relations resided, and from whom he affected Assistance, I procured him an early Passage. This is all I ever knew of Mr MacGauran, and he must have misunderstood me if he entertained the remotest idea of my rendering him any other Services than those he was entitled to as an object of Compassion. I have wrote to him in reply nearly to this purport of which I thought in necessary to give you information.

         I am with respect

                 Dear Sir  Yr mo[st] ...

                                 Tho: Mullett

Text: Sheffield City Archives, Correspondence and Papers of Edmund Burke, 1729-1797, WWM/Bk P/1/876.