
          I can but pray, to forgive him and me, as I had neither authorized him to
 that, nor would I have dared myself to do so.


 How I had exspected [expected], the result of our efforts was = 0, and the Justice-Court 
 in Grandstr. [Grand Street] did send us home five times and will do so ever. And why not?
 Mike Hoehn is a rich man, the riches govern the laws and the laws govern
 the poor, says Goldsmith in his Vicar of W. [Wakefield] It is therefore very foolish, if a
 poor dares it to procede [proceed] against a rich and the former, though cheated by the
 latter, has no right to complain, for he is not equal before the law.


 I can but console with Hiob [Job, in English]. 


 My kind Patron, You have quite right in saying: "Fide, sed cui? vide!"
 and I know but to [too] well "qui fidit, nec bene vidit, fallitur; ergo fide, ne capiari
 vide." I have also found, that that golden Axiom verifies itself nowhere
 more than - in Williamsburgh [Williamsburg]. The experiences I have maked there till
 now, have terrified me! and without making reflexions [reflections] in this relation, I
 can but say: that I would despair and lose the credit to the mankind, if
 under so much corruption I not had been so happy, still to have found men,
 elected of our All creator for to erect the sinking faith and to alleviate so much,
 so immense grief in this best of the worlds.


 However, I have acted not without precaution in this present case; the only
 reprof I can make to me, is: not to have considered that a poor Satan is not
 equal before the law, Republic or not.


 Mike Hoehn (representing not at all the Allegorie [Allegory] of the glorious German Michel)
 is a wealthy man, and my only friend I have here, Merkert, deduced to me, that
 such a man were attackable by laws at all events. In consideration to that
 and [added: in] further consideration of his splendid promisings of remuneration, if I could
 preserve him his suspicious putrid eye, I have without advancing payment
 spended him my remedies and preserved him for not to grow an object of horror.
 I have communicated to You, dear Sir, the Details under wich [which] I undertook that cure. 
 If under such circumstances is none protection of laws, be the plaintiff
 poor or not - we want none laws more! Then, "vivat" the corruption of all
 kinds! The greatest crimen, according to human ideas is the crimen against
 the holy ghost, after that follows the crimen against the mankind. We 
 calls murderer and highway-robbers the greatest sinners against the mankind
 but, it is to consider, that there are weapons against such ones. I can close
 my door or defend me against a robber, but I can not close my Officin
 as Apothecary or Doctor before a rich deceiver, who berobbes a poor,
 after the latter had been a new creator of the wretched being of the former.
 If there protect no mens laws, I repeat, we want none.
        