Constable_.
_October 1, 1807_.
"I should not have allowed myself time to write to you to-day, were not the occasion very urgent.

Your people have so often of late omitted to give you timely notice of the day when my acceptances fell due, that I have suffered an inconvenience too great for me to have expressed to you, had it not occurred so often that it is impossible for me to undergo the anxiety which it occasions.

A bill of yours for L200 was due yesterday, and I have been obliged to supply the means for paying it, without any notice for preparation....

I beg of you to insist upon this being regulated, as I am sure you must desire it to be, so that I may receive the cash for your bills two days at least before they are due." Mr.Murray then gives a list of debts of his own (including some of Constable's) amounting to L1,073, which he has to pay in the following week.

From a cash account made out by Mr.Murray on October 3, it appears that the bill transactions with Constable had become enormous; they amounted to not less than L10,000.
The correspondence continued in the same strain, and it soon became evident that this state of things could not be allowed to continue.
Reconciliations took place from time to time, but interruptions again occurred, mostly arising from the same source--a perpetual flood of bills and promissory notes, from one side and the other--until Murray found it necessary to put an end to it peremptorily.