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The Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, James Saxon Childers Papers. ALS; 4p. (c). . Not previously published.
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The odds & ends of time which are bestowed upon this fair-showing (as we should have called it
at Westminster) would not have been better employed; – & if you draw from this confession the inference that some of my time is not
so well employed as it ought to be, I cannot pretend to deny it, tho I shall not allow that this is any misapplication, for it brings
back fine scenes rememberable occurrences & delightful days to my recollection, & Mrs R. & Miss Ann – may probably derive from it the same kind of
pleasure.
Cuthbert has had a somewhat severe illness – a bilious remittent fever, which has made the last ten days a very anxious time. Thank God he is now recovering
I wonder Murray has not put the Peninsular war to the Press.liberal opinion in Portugal. Our Government ought to be told that
this revolution has been brought about thro the English Press – a curse to other countries as well as its own – four Portugueze
Journals were printed here at one time, of which two were Jacobinical in the extreme, & a third Revolutionary: and all, even the
fourth (which was set up as a counter-poise by Funchal the Ambassador) laboured to exasperate the Portugueze against the English.