Mr Stone bleeded [?] in the forenoon and I received of him in cash 3.3.0, which is in full for the composition of a debt due to me from Will Elphick of 5.5.0, and really it is a fine drawback, as some of the money was paid out of my pocket, and what makes me the more vexed about it is I have the greatest reason in the world to think that it is a very shuffling and unfair compound, but I was willing to have something, rather than lose all. But I must own and shall always look upon myself as guilty of mean spirit in coming into the composition and not seeing the affair to the utmost, for I really think the man when he absconded took with him a considerable sum of money…
In the afternoon Mr Fender, Mr Blake’s rider, called on me and I paid him… At home all day, and but very little to do. What will become I cannot think…