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Our intimacy I think entitles me to claim feel a little uncomfortable when you are silent longer than you
ought to be. If you were as strong as a horse, you might be as dumb as Sir Equus for three months without one objurgatory hint on my
part, – but till you are so I humbly conceive that, under favour of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, I might more frequently be favoured with a Bulletin.
I was very much obliged to Herries for the Gazette.this it. If Koster be right, all the other disputants are in
the wrong & the remedy is easy, & the sooner the principle is known when it could be made effective the better. If he is wrong,
I wish to know where his error lies, lest I should blunder about in when the subject comes in my way, as it will do in the next years
Annals.
Now Sir for a commission for you. Mrs Lovell requests you will
procure a frank full of seeds for her garden. She specifies Red Zinia, Red Cardinal Flower, & Venetian Mallow, – any other annuals
that the seedsmen may recommend as <x> new & fashionable for the country. To which I on behalf of myself & I
hope of your Grosvenorship also, would have some good Broccoli seed added, with any thing else which may be deemed pretty eating, &
of which the culture is not beyond the power of our climate, & poor garden establishment.
Ubi Diabolus estxxx is xxxx <there> that the competition in
sale will lie, tho the battle of opinions be with Gog of Edinburgh.r Campbell to be a great poet xxx & eke Mr
Crabbe also, should pronounce the same approbation upon me – I should be very much afraid that there was something to be found in my
writings of the same stamp <class & character> as that whereof Mr Crabbe & Mr Campbell were <are> composed, – & that would be humiliating indeed!
Oh this unmerciful Register! I have written 500 pages & see no end to it!
Lucky Lord Grenville to deliver his opinion about Massena two
days before news arrived of his retreat!
More villainies from Whitbread,