Ship Westmoreland
Janry 11th 1822
My Dear Sir-
	I Received your letter concerning Mr Cowell but I must beg leave to decline taking any part in Mr Cowell’s Concerns while my own remain unsettled. And I am still more astonished that you should attribute his being left behind to me. The Active was here a fortnight after my Arrival and you never consulted me about what was best to be done during that period.
	I beg leave to press upon you the necessity of Answering my letter forthwith and of settling my accounts as I am in great want of the money to lay it out for necessaries for my family
	I am living on Board of the Westmoreland for want of a better lodging [f] And as a freind [sic] said to me yesterday It is to the eternal disgrace of ye Clergy of this Colony to suffer a Minister to return from an heathen land. And not one with all their Philanthropy offer to take him into their Houses—
With my Sincere respects
To Mrs Marsden & family
I remain Yours truly
John Butler
J.P.