I heard lately, upon your authority, a very singular story of the horses belonging to Romanas troops, which were left behind when the men were brought off by the British ships.

Will you oblige me with the facts? I am just coming to the escape of that army, & being richly provided with accounts both Spanish & English from persons concerned in the adventure, shall be very glad to add an anecdote so curious as a fact in natural history.

I want M^r Wilberforce to bring the question of Duelling before Parliament,

seeing, as he does, that the detestable license of the press, of which both parties avail themselves without scruple, must make the practise more frequent than it already is. It is my opinion that it might easily be put a stop to, if it were seriously regarded as a breach of the laws, & rendered liable to such a punishment as Juries would not shrink from inflicting; – fine, for example, imprisonment & banishment for the parties & seconds, – according to circumstances. If such a law was past, & it were made known at the same that any Officer in army or navy should be dismissed the service, if he engaged in an affair of this kind, I am persuaded that the object would be at once effected. M^r Wilberforce sees greater difficulty, tho entirely agreeing in the wish: – but he is thinking about it.

Will Government let this opportunity pass, for prosecuting the M Chronicle, which is now actually publishing French verses, to excite the French armies to rebellion?

Chateaubriand

ought to present a formal complaint, – & the paper ought to be punished as severely as John Bull.

xxxx xxxxx only be Otherwise it will appear still more plainly that the liberty of the press is always to be what the Enemies of good order chuse, & never what its friends desire.