tainly* if You believe the ting to be of little conse,
quence**, You are very much in the wrong.
    That is what I am partly ordered to tell You
and partly what our old friendship asks from
me not to conceal from You, though the necessity
where I am in to write You this makes very uneasy

                           Your
                         
                                    most afflicted Servant

Cassel the 27^th January           Mauvillon .
                         1775


* cer, tainly = cer-tainly = certainly (Komma dient als Trennstrich)
** conse, quence = conse-quence = consequence (Komma dient als Trennstrich)