Thank you for the half notes, & thank you also for your solicitude concerning an evil which is not to be averted.

Wynn has done all that I asked him, & I believe also all that could be done at this time, by facilitating matters at the Colonial Office, & obtaining him thro that channel good letters of introduction. The time when he might have been served in his profession was when M^r Grenville was at the Admiralty, – & perhaps this would have been done if that Administration had not built a wall that they might run their heads against it.

There prevails an opinion that I have made a large fortune by my writings that I enjoy large pensions, & moreover am a person of the greatest influence with government. Upon this latter point, even my brother who ought to have been wiser, has presumed far too much. The ship

which he did gain thro my means would never have been obtained by had it not been for Herries. No other course was left for him, but that which he is now taking. – My death, – or disablement – (even the latter a possible event at any moment) would leave him without any assistance; – his, or that of his wife, – would throw a family of eight children

– almost wholly upon my hands. He will secure a provision for them by emigration, at the cost of some privations & some difficulties at first – It has long been a burthen upon my mind, – which has but too many cares of its own

I have behaved ill to Cunningham in not thanking him for the tales which he sent me.

The real cause has been that I meant to write more than a mere letter of thanks, & have never found time to do it. The older I grow, the slower I proceed with my compositions, – & the less leisure I have.

Has the Mag: Rot. tried acupunctuation for his rheumatism? I see a treatise upon it advertised.

Do not delay the Vegetable Marrow Seeds – because the seasons will tarry for no man, & it is time they were in the hot-bed.