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Thank you for your solicitude. I am nearly arrived at that age when every man is said to be either a fool or a
physician, – & I can explain my own attack satisfactorily. The head feeling I have been subject to since the year 1798; – it is no
doubt the same sensation which is experienced, in fainting, & in an hysterical woman <it> would end in a fit. The sickness
was an accidental effect of flatulence, – my stomach is so easily irritated, that in the sick head aches to which I am subject, no
emetic is ever needed; – as soon as I perceive that it is necessary to clear the stomach, it is scarcely necessary to put my finger
into my mouth, – I can xxxx effect the same purpose by an act of volition. The moment therefore in this last case
I an apprehension of something was excited, – the thing itself followed – Your prescription of exercise however is
followed. Before your letter arrived I had given Lunus full powers to rouse me
at day break, & we fetch a walk before breakfast whenever the weather permits.
This goes with the last proof of my article upon the state of the populace.they <it> may perhaps be destined to undergo.
Murray I see puts my name to Nelson.
I have just finished the tenth book of Roderick,begin think seriously of dropping some
of my engagements <in order> to have leisure for things of more ultimate importance. The Registerxxxx subjects which I have undertaken are cleared off. Jeffrey pays himself & Brougham (if not every body else) twenty guineas per sheet as the regular price. I have been paid twice at this rate, – (for
Nelson
What is become of your papers? & where is my pension
I long to send you those books of Roderick