1316. Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 1 May 1807 ⁠* 

My dear Wynn

I am writing almost by lightning light to acknowledge the receipt of yours & its inclosure: the storm is as tremendous as I ever witnessed & such as was to be expected from the more than dog day heat which we have for the last week endured.

I wish you speedily thro your election – & I wish in London for as much. Church & King house burning as may be without loss of lives for but Mr. Percivals sake, who deserves hanging ten times more then ever Lord George Gordon [1]  did. He doing from knavery what that poor wretch did from frenzy. The impudence of this man & of some of his colleagues makes me lose all patience.

The end of May is perhaps the best time for seeing Keswick – I do not say the Lakes – but this particular one, – for the sunsets behind Skiddaw for about a fortnight or three weeks are more glorious than it is possible either to conceive or describe –

God bless you

RS

Friday May 1. 1807

Bedford promises me news of the pension as soon as he can learn any. [2]  I am Cannon Southeys heir at law, Ld Ss [3]  issue failing – no doubt by but heir to what, is more than I can tell. [4]