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The remark you made about Miltons prose is perfectly right: – so is not Don Manuel.
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I have waited till the re-election of the Imperial Abbotxxx he can have none at present, – if DickinsonWynn him. can you help him, in case his Amsterdammers (Haemorrhoids xx so called as Piles) should not
bear him thro? – But I think they must, as he has them to a very serious degree.
I should tell you that I am fully satisfied Tom is not to blame. no
man knows his duty better, & no man is more ready to do it, & he has done it most severely in his ship; – which was not half
manned when he joined her & of the hands she had, scarcely any of them knew one rope from another. During the whole winter they had
no master, the third Lieutenant laid himself up with the –– & my brother & the second were at it watch & watch, he being at
the time ill with these fundamental evils, & with ague upon him. The old Court Martial will certainly go against him; – tho in that
affair he was completely in the right, was thought so even by those who condemned him, & proclaimed so by Sir S. Hoods conduct
immediately afterwards.Amelia, where he served for the remainder of
his time in the West Indies.
The thing wanted, if you have any interest, is a very slight favour, nor can any thing be done till the event of the
hospital examination is known. What that may be I will let you instantly know, – x perhaps it was needless to write
xx to you till it was known. However meantime you can cast about in your mind & perhaps prepare the way for an
application if any should be needful. Sir G. Beaumont who is coming to lodge
next door, may likely enough have some Admiralty friends, – I will try them if it be necessary: I could also without any great
impropriety write to Sotheby,
You will judge from Toms letter whether any thing ought to be done before I hear farther from him. It seems to me not. But he has evidently written in haste, – & I have been following the bad example.