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Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. c. 24. Not previously published.
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It surprizes me that Blakexxxxxxx xxxxxx <training men> under British officers. This
prejudice cannot possibly last long, the Spaniards themselves will cry out against it, & remove him from the Regency. There is one
thing which I could wish to see done in Portugal & that is, that as fast as possible, native officers should be made from the
ranks, & honours even showered upon those who are of deserving of them. Silveira
I want to hear of more troops going out that Lord
Wellington may not have to wait upon the frontier till Massena& recover Almeida & Cuidad
Rodrigo,morals are in such a shatterd state completely hors de combat.
I have not seen the Goggery upon Kehama, – nothing that comes from that Micromegas is to be called
criticism, so there you have a new word for it fresh from the mint.thi Goggery is worth answering, I would not wish it in better hands than yours, – but I doubt whether any answer would be
useful, – those who can listen to such doctrines as the Ed. Review promulgates upon points of taste, are in a state of moral &
intellectual blindness <of which> no operator can cure them.
When you speak of the existing Spanish armies you do not include those in Catalonia & Valencia. The Catalans have done their duty most nobly. It is unaccountable why we should so totally have neglected them.
About the flower seeds you need do no more than walk into a seedsmans & ask for what you want, – adding if you
please the Persicaria to the list, – they may come in edi eodem franko
The stags-horn nap I have not forgotten, as yet it has hardly shown its nose I believe. The Moon & the Moons Father will ascend Latrigg & see.
400 pages of the Register
You are often enquired for here by your town acquaintance, the Doctor, the Crosthwaites
God bless you – I must go to work upon a whole pile of Spanish papers. – You will wonder to see what a chapter I have
made upon Turkey, Slavonic politics & Czerni George.
Continue to send me good accounts of yourself, & to defy all prophets of ill. I rejoice to hear of the claret, – & should rejoice still more to partake of it.