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Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. d. 47. ALS; 4p. . Not previously published.
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I believe I told you that my great labour was compleated.de moribus
Pay the Dog Stars demands upon me, –
ask DuntHim I thought better than
I really have no patience with Gov. for permitting the peace of the country & the metropolis
to be disturbed by such meetings which do not even pretend xx not to be seditious.txx it is too bad that a few rascals should be allowed to convoke the whole posse
of blackguards, & put the city in fear, & ferment, if not in actual danger. Hunt should have been shut up
during the suspension of H. Corpus.& making transportation the punishment for seditious libels, – & repealing Mr Fox’s law
Cuthberts arm does not heal after
the cow-pox,
I join R. at Edinburgh, but do not expect to
make any stay there, or to see any body. For I have no acquaintance & shall not put myself in the way of
making any. As for J. you may be sure nobody would ask me
to meet him, – & if they did I should refuse. He forfeited all claims to xxx courtesy from me when
he recommended me for prosecution.