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It is very long since I have heard of you, or written to you, – I have concluded that you are all going on well, & you will have concluded that I am very busy.
I have just been applied to for letters to Lisbon on behalf of a young Clergyman, who very probably may never live to
reach it, & at any rate is taking a very awkward course there. He goes out with a friend who has a sloop of war bound to Halifax,
as far as Bermudas, & there means to look for a passage either to Portugal or Cadiz. He is described to me as a man of high
character at Oxford & among all who know him. Will you give him a letter to Sealy,rs De Quincey,
This it is which induces me to write just now amid proof sheets & multiplied employments.
I have added a fine book to my collection. Pierre de Marca’s Histoire de Bearne,
You will get my Life of Nelsont QuilliamAmazon and later on HMS Victory.Amazon. He was killed at the Battle of Copenhagen.Monarch, a third rate ship of the line which suffered 200
casualties at the Battle of Copenhagen, including the death of the Captain, James Robert Mosse (1745–1801).Bellona at Copenhagen. Amongst the information he
supplied was the fact that seventy-five of his fellow crew had been killed when their elderly cannon burst; see
I have touched upon the Catholic Question in this volume of the Register
My article upon the state of the poor or rather the populace was not in time for the last number, & therefore still
remains unfinished, tho the proofs of part of it are now upon my desk, & I must conclude this to attend to them.Constitution defeated
HMS Guerriere on 19 August 1812; USS United States captured HMS Macedonian on 25 October 1812; and USS Constitution defeated HMS Java on 29
December 1812.
Remember me to my Aunt, & let me soon hear that you are all well. My flock are thriving. Herbert is at this time in high glee at the arrival of his Greek Testament in a parcel from Longman.
I hear nothing of Harry.
Multos et felices!