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Huntington Library, RS 166. Previously published: Charles Cuthbert Southey (ed.), Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, 6 vols (London, 1849–1850), III, pp. 305–306 [in part].
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You have sent me a copious supply – but Gifford as you
all ought to allow Pasley
I have it under the hand of Wynn that any new Ministry must recall our troops from Spain & Portugal, – to which I replied by praying he might stay out of place as
long as he thought so, & prescribing Pasley.
When I read L Goldsmithsagainst him, as should give his good friends a plea for disbelieving any thing
against a man who had was so palpably calumniated. For instance that B. when at the military college poisoned a woman who
was with child by him;is a lie I know, because I know happen to have a person resident in the same town,must be a lie is obvious,
because such things could x could not be done with more impunity in France than in England, wheels being in use there, &
to say that it might have been concealed, leads to the obvious question, if so <then> how came L Goldsmith to know it? – A still
grosser & more ridiculous story is that B. makes his poison by giving arsenic to a pig, & tying the pig up by the
hind legs, & collecting what runs from his mouth,topi
tofana.
If he be the rascal which I take him to be, his newspaperhas already shows what the main
purpose is for which he has been sent over. – To put the Bourbons into Buonapartes hands. He recommends a Bourbon to be sat
at the head of the army in Spain, – a Bourbon to land in France. Now there can be no doubt that this is what B. would above all things
desire, & I verily believe this is what this double-died renegade
I have Leckies book,ought to have brought forward the main matter of his book immediately on his return from Malta. By the bye
Coleridge knows Pasley too, & might introduce you to him.
Should the reviewal can admit, – (he will go to the utmost limits for me sans doubt) – I think the best plan will be to curtail the
commercial & financial details, & keep them for a second xxxxx sermon, (a text may easily be found) in which again
to preach up a Crusade, according to the true Pasleyan faith. This faith should be preached in all places on every opportunity. If Coleridge ever did what he ought to do, he would set the Courier to
trumpet it. My Register is as much to the same tune as could be expected, & I shall take care to make it perfectly orthodox as it
proceeds. The D of York & the plaguey proceedings which grow out of the enquiry,have hung hang
like a mill stone about the neck of the volume, tho I have done my best to relieve it. These things will swell it to <about> two
hundred page beyond the extent of the former year <volume>,the public opinion.
A name is waiting for the Gr. & Gr. party,Gre-gres of the xxx Negroes. If this were <set> afloat in
the Courier it might take.
I am glad that the discovery of xxxx Binghams roguerytoo <so> much like Irish xxxx barbarity, as to make me feel very uncomfortable when I saw the first
story – here is an impromptu on the clearing up of the mystery –