rom an expression
dropped in conversation, that they were not able to do this, and that
a deficit in their accounts appeared in their winding up. If this
conjecture be true, it is a proof that the salary, so far from admitting
savings, is unequal to a very plain style of life; for such was theirs.
I presume Congress will be asked to allow it, and it is evident to me,
from what I saw while in 1093. that it ought to be done, as they did
not expend a shilling which should have been avoided. Would it be more
eligible to set the example of making good a deficit, or to give him
an outfit, which will cover it? The impossibility of living on the sum
allowed, respectably, was the true cause of his insisting on his recall.
821.267.1292. He came over while all expenses were paid. He rented a
house with standing furniture, such as tables, chairs, presses, &c., and
bought all other necessaries. The latter were charged in his account;
the former was included in the article of house-rent, and paid during
the whole time of his stay here; and as the established rate of hire
for furniture is from thirty to forty per cent, per annum, the standing
furniture must have been paid for three times over, during the eight
years he staid here. His salary was two thousand five hundred guineas.
When Congress reduced it to less than two thousand, he refused to accede
to it, asked his recall, and insisted that whenever they chose to alter
the conditions on which he came out, if he did not approve of it, they
ought to replace him in America on the old conditions. He lived plain,
but as decently as his salary would allow. He saved nothing, but avoided
debt. He knew he could not do this on the reduced salary, and therefore
asked his recall with decision.

To 935.145. succeeded. He had established a certain style of living. The
same was expected from 1214. and there were five hundred guineas a
year less to do it on. It has been aimed at, however, as far as was
practicable. This rendered it constantly necessary to step neither to
the right nor to the left, to incur any expense which could possibly be
avoided, and it called for an almost womanly attention to the details
of the household, equally perplexing, disgusting, and inconsistent with
business. You will be sensible, that, in this situation, no savings
could be made for reimbursing the half year's salary, ordered to be
advanced under the former commission, and more than as much again,
which was unavoid