In testimony of the consideration in which the Magistrates and Council hold his high rank and distinguished merit.
"I know that I owe this honour chiefly to the interest you take in the cause of Poland; and it is this which makes me doubly happy and grateful in receiving it. This precious document will I show to my children, that they may learn from it how devoted patriotism and steady attachments to a just and glorious, though unhappy, cause, is valued and recompensed in the great capital of Scotland. This, your gift, enriches me with a new claim on your friendship and kindness, and before I part from you let me recommend to your Lordship and the other members of the Council all the Polish exiles who have sought shelter within the walls of this hospitable city. This request, I feel, is hardly necessary, as my countrymen have already received many proofs of your benevolence. Still, I think it my duty to prefer it, and beg especially that your kind solicitude may be directed towards procuring for them the means of acquiring useful knowledge, of improving their present position by their own exertions, and of further qualifying themselves to render, in time to come, efficient service to their country."