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Huntington Library, RS 399. ALS; 4p. . Not previously published.
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Thank you for the Parga papers. What could induce gov our Government to suffer the
lies upon this subject to pass current so long without contradiction?
If the Western Luminary draws a prosecution upon Leigh Hunt, G Ds cockatrice of the Times, Champion Thelwall &c &c, it will suffer martyrdom to some
purpose.
I believe I told you that I had begun a series of dialogues concerning the state of things, in
which Sir T. More was one of the interlocutors.
Even before the Reformation (this I learn from Ld Bacons Henry 7) it appears that the pulpit was
the channel of sedition
In the preface to Hutchinsons Hist of Massachusetts (written about 1760) the author says “in the
first ten years about 20,000 souls had arrived in Massachusetts. Since then it is supposed more have gone from
hence to England, than have come from thence hither.”trade occupations of
every kind.