I have to thank you for a brace of Pheasants, which reached me this day, & for your obliging note. It is very gratifying to me that my letter in the Courier appears to have been felt as it was intended.

Had it not been for the sake of again pointing out in strong terms the abominable tendency & purpose of Lord Byrons writings, I should no more have thought of noticing his coarse & insolent charges against me, than of replying to Hone or Cobbett. He has sent over for publication viler things than have yet appeared

& such as no bookseller will venture to touch, unless he be one of the ames damnées

of the trade. It is however well that he should deal avowedly in poison; for the circulation of those works in which he has covertly administered it with so much success, will certainly be impeded now.

If I should at any time be in your neighbourhood, I shall have great pleasure in paying my respects to you at Wighill Park