Miss Fricker will send to your house a packet for which I shall be obliged to you to procure a potential frank, – the shortest way will be for you to send it to Bedford with an intimation to that effect. It contains some law papers which Edith & her two sisters

must sign, & by virtue of which they will receive about 160£ each, from the effects of their Uncle

who has lately died intestate. Our Uncles

were not so obliging as to xxx let the law dispose of their property.

We shall probably set out the first week in November, – tho in consequence of this arrangement I must take work to finish at Streatham.

However it is not a bad place for working. Edith May & I are to accompany the Miss Charters & Lady Malet,

which will be pleasant for all parties – we shall fill two chaises & see a few sights on the way, if the weather permit. If Sir G. Beaumont should be at Cole-Orton we then part company at Derby, E May & I going to pass a day or two with him, – I shall finish a paper for the QR before we start. Poor Edmundson is dead – to the great sorrow & loss of the neighbourhood I believe we shall get a subscription tablet placed in the church, in testimony of the respect which was felt for him.

You know he had suffered many severe attacks of iliac passion.

Latterly he had found such speedy relief from the oil of Croton

that he almost thought himself possessed of a safe specific. But a cough came on in the latter end of spring, which he could not, or did not attend to in time. In itself it was not alarming, but it became frequent & teizing & the irritation which it occasioned brought in a most distressing hiccup, with which, & with repeated attacks of the intestinal complaint he struggled ten weeks, losing so much strength at each attack that he was not able in any degree to recruit during the intervals. – I do not know what appearances were found after death; – but as you may suppose it was his desire that the body should be opened, there being proof enough of some organic derangement.

Gifford appears to have rallied, I have a letter from him, – the first since the commencement of his illness. He has promised Murray to conduct the Review till the 60^th N^o.

– rather he says to satisfy Murray than with any real hope of so doing. When I am in town I shall of course enquire into the affair of the succession. The reviewal of the Peninsular War has all the marks of particular personal xxx civility.

I do not know who wrote it. The paper upon Spain which is as good as that in the former paper was good for little, is by Blanco.

– My present subject is taken from D^r Dwights Travels,

– first I gut the book of its miscellaneous facts & speculations, – then take up the political subject of America; as to the stability & tendency of its institutions. I believe that I have some things to say which are worth saying, – & I wish to say them in a friendly & conciliatory temper. It is bad policy, & indeed wrong in every respect, to irritate the Americans. They cannot possibly hold together, & our business should be to regard the Eastern states as our natural allies, – the people of all others whom it is our interest to be upon good terms with, & with whom we have the most points of resemblance.

I hope Robert

continues to amend. Our love to all –