MY DEAR SIR,--I am exceedingly sorry that you should have had the trouble of writing to me to no purpose; for in respect to the letter, which it seems by your favour of the 29th ult. you committed to a private hand to be forwarded to me, I beg leave to state that I have never received it, or heard anything of it. I must earnestly intreat that in future all letters relating to business be despatched by the regular post, otherwise great inconvenience and misunderstanding will be the result. Private individuals seldom give themselves the slightest trouble to deliver letters. If they chance to fall in with the persons for whom they are intended--well and good! if not, the letters are flung aside and forgotten. In respect to the monies furnished me by our friend Mr. Tarn for my journey I have sent an account of the disbursement on the other side, and also of what I have expended already upon the Mandchou New Testament, of which _St. Matthew's Gospel has been completed and St. Mark's entered upon_. I remain, my dear Sir, most truly yours, GEORGE BORROW. To J. Tarn, Esq., _Under-Treasurer of the British and Foreign Bible Society_. Account of the disbursement of certain monies received by me for my journey to St. Petersburg in the service of the B. S.:-- Received of Mr. Tarn (if I mistake not) 30 pounds, and 7 pounds, making together 37 pounds. Paid for fare to Hamburg by steam-boat, diet not included, 7 pounds, 0s 0d For expenses of conveying myself and baggage to the custom-house wharf, and of getting on board, 0 pounds, 6s, 0d Carry forward, 7 pounds, 6s, 0d Brought forward 7 pounds, 6s, 0d Expenses on board the packet, viz. diet, servants, and baggage fees at Stade on the Hanoverian coast, 1 pound, 9s, 0d Expenses attending my landing at Hamburg, conveyg. baggage to the hotel, etc., 0 pounds, 5s, 0d Expenses on the day of my arrival, for medical advice, physic, etc., having been seized by severe illness, 0 pounds, 7s, 0d Expenses during three days' sojourn at Hamburg, viz. for lodging, diet, and _valet de place_, 1 pound, 19s, 0d Expenses of journey to Lubeck, namely hire of calash, driver, etc., 1 pound, 10s, 0d Expenses of two days' sojourn at Lubeck, 1 pound, 7s, 0d Expenses for removal of baggage to the river-side and journey down the river Trave to steam-boat at Travemunde, 0 pounds, 7s, 0d Fare from Travemunde to St. Petersburg, diet not included, 1 pound, 0s, 0d For diet, servants, etc., 1 pound, 17s, 6d Total, 27 pounds, 7s, 6d Surplus of money, 9 pounds, 12s, 6d From which surplus of 9 pounds, 12s. 6d. are to be deducted 7 pounds, 4s., or the salary of twelve days not drawn for, which twelve days were spent in the journey. The salary commencing from the hour of embarcation. Surplus due to Mr. Tarn, 2 pounds, 8s, 6d