145.1267.1046.7. he came over, when, instead of outfit and salary, all expenses were paid.  Of rigorous honesty, and careless of appearances, he lived for a considerable time as an economical private individual.  After he was fixed at 812.141. and the salary at a sum certain, he continued his economical style, till, out of the difference between his expenses and his salary, he could purchase furniture for his house.  This was the easier, as the salary was at two thousand five hundred guineas then.  He was obliged, too, to be passing between 1042. and 812.141. so as to avoid any regular current of expenses.  When he established himself, his pecuniary affairs were under the direction of 964.814.7.101.994., one of the most estimable characters on earth, and the most attentive and honorable economists.  Neither had a wish to lay up a copper, but both wished to make both ends meet.  I suspected, however, from an expression dropped in conversation, that they were not able to do this, and that a deficit in their accounts appeared in their winding up.  If this conjecture be true, it is a proof that the salary, so far from admitting savings, is unequal to a very plain style of life; for such was theirs.  I presume Congress will be asked to allow it, and it is evident to me, from what I saw while in 1093. that it ought to be done, as they did not expend a shilling which should have been avoided.  Would it be more eligible to set the example of making good a deficit, or to give him an outfit, which will cover it?  The impossibility of living on the sum allowed, respectably, was the true cause of his insisting on his recall. 821.267.1292.  He came over while all expenses were paid.  He rented a house with standing furniture, such as tables, chairs, presses, &c., and bought all other necessaries.  The latter were charged in his account; the former was included in the article of house-rent, and paid during the whole time of his stay here; and as the established rate of hire for furniture is from thirty to forty per cent, per annum, the standing furniture must have been paid for three times over, during the eight years he staid here.  His salary was two thousand five hundred guineas.  When Congress reduced it to less than two thousand, he refused to accede to it, asked his recall, and insisted that whenever they chose to alter the conditions on which he came out, if he did not approve of it, they ought to replace him in America on the old conditions.  He lived plain, but as decently as his salary would allow.  He saved nothing, but avoided debt.  He knew he could not do this on the reduced salary, and therefore asked his recall with decision.