We have to acquaint Your Excellency that the Time drawing now very near for the Payment of the Interest Two Hundred & Fifty Thousand Guilders due by the United-States first June, and as it would be advantageous to have it inserted in the Public-papers so early as possible; We are very uneasy at the total Silence of the Board of Treasury to us on the subject.1 We still flatter ourselves the British April Packet, will agreeably dispel our Fears of not receiving timely Provision, And at all Events earnestly entreat Your Excellency’s directions, what Measures we are to pursue in this Business, for if the intrest was not exactly pay’d at the day would occasion a Severe Stress to yr. Credit.

We are very respectfully / Your Excellency’s / Most obedient hble servants

The Letter from the Board of Treasury of the 4. of April, in which this is inclosed, I received open, on Fryday, together with the Bills for 75,000 Guilders mentioned in it.1 I went immediately to Mr Ruckers House with them: but no one was at home, but a Servant, who told me, his Master and Mistress were in the Country, and the Clerk not at home. on Saturday, I went again. The Clerk was then at home, and told me Mr Rucker had left the Kingdom.2 This day, I Sent a Notary Public, and to him the Clerk Said the Bills must be protested. The Notary has accordingly protested them and I Shall Send the Bills back with the Protest, by the first Ship for New York. This Catastrophy has Shocked me, and will be a great disappointment to the Board of Treasury, who no doubt have Sold Produce, to purchase these Bills. I think it my Duty to Send them back without Loss of Time. I am now convinced that We Shall not be furnished wth Remittances, in Season to pay the whole of the Interest in June. I pray you to write me, how much will be deficient and what Methods We can take to Supply it.

With great Regard &c