2029. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 2 February 1812

2029. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 2 February 1812 ⁠* 

My dear Grosvenor

I am really vexed to think of the trouble these ugly fellows have caused me to give you. – [1] 

Send per waggon – from the Bull & Mouth, if there be no place nearer, which perhaps there may.

Ciudad Rodrigo, [2]  if recovered, will be more than a set off for Valencia. [3]  But it grieves my very heart to think that we have an army in that damnd Sicily which might beat Suchet [4]  in the field

RS.

Feby 2. 1812.

Notes

* Address: To/ G. C. Bedford Esqr./ Exchequer
Endorsement: 2 Feby 1812
MS: Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. c. 24. ALS; 2p.
Unpublished. BACK

[1] Southey had asked Bedford to send pistols, watchmens rattles and other items to help protect his home against intruders; see Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 17 January 1812, Letter 2018. BACK

[2] Ciudad Rodrigo was recaptured by the allies on 19 January 1812. BACK

[3] Valencia had been captured by the French on 9 January 1812. BACK

[4] Louis Gabriel Suchet, 1st Duc d’Albufera (1770–1826), Marshal of France and key figure in the French campaign in the Iberian peninsula. BACK

Addressee

Bedford, Grosvenor Charles (1773–1839)

Places mentioned

Bull and Mouth (mentioned 1 time)
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Four
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