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Huntington Library, RS 157. Not previously published.
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Concerning the good custom of Bride-wainsrs H. Southey, which was ordered at hap-hazard not having
altogether pleased me. There is also another objection quoadrs T.S.
has not got Wordsworths poems,r Castle)
The Malaga & Santona xxx expeditions seem both to have failed from mismanagement. In the former Lord
B– was duped by a stratagem against which he ought to have been on his guard;
I am well pleased with Lord Wellingtons conduct; – if it
appears doubtful in any thing it is in not having defended the passage of the Zezere from the side of Abrantes. Do you believe
that string of questions & answers? To me it seems very suspicious, – I cannot conceive why the <messenger> should be
provided in writing with xxxxxx information, every part of which he might have delivered just as well by word of mouth,
– for one cannot suppose such a blockhead was sent that it was necessary he should con his lesson the whole way. – Massenapick out <raise> officers & generals from the ranks, as fast as men can be found to
merit promotion command.
Do not forget Malthus & the Poor Laws,decent
<good> feeling, has just been taking up the cause of this doughty philosophicide.
Remember me to Mrs R. I am truly glad to hear
of her well-doing. You & I are got into the female-line.
Carlisle sent me a not-very-wise message the other day that Lord Holland was certainly to be prime-minister, he knew it to be
so &c –. upon which you may guess what sort of reliance I should have placed, even if he had known also that it was certain
the Kingwhich <this> I talked of his French ague.
I am getting on with the vile business of the D of York.
My advertisement for books has brought me a Brazilian grammar
About the Annual Accountsin xxxxxx
<upon> finance is to follow the debates closely, without attempting even to form an opinion about them. If you send me
any Being incapable, the best thing is to be sensible of that incapacity. So if you send me any thing let it be in such
a shape that I have only to transcribe, – to understand is out of my power.