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National Library of Wales, MS 4813D. ALS; 4p. . Previously published: John Wood Warter (ed.), Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, 4 vols (London, 1856), III, pp. 217–220.
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Cornelius Neale dedicated a tragedy called Mustapha to me, some
five or six years ago.t Pauls Church Yard, by the gateway of <leading to> Doctors Commons, – & he himself has married
a daughter of John Mason Good.but not, I think, with much power of mind, –
but free from all prevailing faults either of manner or morals in his writings
Murray has sent me the Sketch Book, the author of which I met in his
room.
I know not what to think of this termination of the Queens business,r Sacheverel.xxxx <remarkable> city of which no vestige now remains, & no record will be transmitted to
posterity.
The matter will not end here, even if the Q. should be desirous, as probably she will be, of taking her allowance &
returning to her continental indulgencies.xx
xxxxx taken up; the ferment will continue; & things will go on from bad to worse, till the press has effected a thorough
Revolution, or till Government has subdued the press. I fear that in another century our constitution will be held up as a warning for
its defects, not as an object of admiration for other nations. And I am as sure as it is possible to feel concerning future events,
that in the course of fifty years (perhaps in less than half that time) there will not be a free press in xxx xxxx
Europe.
King Mob demands an illumination here to night,tallow-chandler, & great
disturbances are threatened. In that case my windows may suffer. – there is however no appearance of any stir as yet (between 7 & 8
o clock) – & tallow chandlers are suspicious authorities in such thi matters.
There is a book advertised about New Britain,
I have nearly finished another book of Oliver Newman,
I wish you could have given me a better account of Mrs
Wynn. – We are going on tolerably well. – Your godson is as
fine a creature as you could desire to see, & begins to mispronounce mutilated words most delightfully. Charles Cuthbert he makes into Cha–Cupn.