The letter from the Colonial Office arrived yesterday, those in Rickmans frank to day; – tomorrow Tom & his eldest boy

take their departure & sleep at Netherhall; & on Monday they embark at Maryport.

The Captain

carries them both, & gives them such fare as he has for himself, for the very small sum of 15£, – they take their own cots, & such extra fare, solid & liquid, as they please. So far economy has been well consulted. – If we can obtain any farther introductions they must be sent after him, to the care of Matthew Bell Esq^re Quebec.

One he has picked up here to Col. Marshall,

who has the distribution of lands upon the Clyde at a settlement called Lanark. If we can get one to the naval Captain

whom you mention, so much the better, – but he does not know him. On the whole however, he goes well fortified with letters.

Yesterday E May dispatched a piece of her work for your youngest son,

which Louisa will receive, thro the Board of Controul, & his Majestys Exchequer,

– great powers being properly put in motion on great occasions. I am sorry to say that E May is not well, & that I am somewhat uneasy concerning her. She complains of pain in the chest, always produced by walking, & felt not unfrequently when in inaction, – like a weight which oppresses her. And of a weakness in both wrists, both being in the slightest perceptible degree swoln.

I wish to hear how you are going on, – & how Edward stands in the challenge. By this time it must be pretty clear whether he will get in to College or not.

Senhouse is in town, – & if he has not called on you, you will find him at the Pr. of Wales’s Hotel, Leicester Place, Leicester Square. – In another month or five weeks I hope to be able to start: – & for that purpose I am pursuing more perseveringly than is agreable, my B of the Church.

If you happen to call in at Murrays, beg him to quicken his printer.

Here I can correct the proofs with proper deliberation, – & refer to my books when needful, – the latter being impossible in London, & the former not easily to be done. – The book must not be delayed, for there will be heavy demands upon it.

Gifford must be incapable of much business, – for he has not answered my question whether I should write upon the Sp. & Port: affairs:

a subject upon which I could have begun a paper here, & finished it advantageously at Streatham