Address:
Captain Flinders
    Norfolk Hotel
    Norfolk S^t Strand
or Admiralty
                            London

Readdressed:
M^r Standert's
      N^o 3 Cliffords Inn
                Fleet St
Annotation:
Oct. 30 1810

          Revesby Abbey
          Oct 28 1810

My dear Sir
    it gives me Sincere Pleasure
that you have at Last Escapd [sic] from the Clutches of
French tyranny & are restord [sic] to your Country
I feel an additional Satisfaction of no Small
magnitude in Finding the First Lord, of whose judment [sic]
as well as Talents I have a high opinion, inclind [sic]
to rate your Services on the scale they deserve & to

[Banks signature on the other side has been cut away here]
into consideration in setting, the
        to give you in the
              to indear the
              are ruled
doubts whether
[illegible] your
wishes to do, its