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Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. c. 24. Not previously published.
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Thank you for your news, – its substance tho not in the Bulletin form, is in the Courier,xxxxxxx <much> at variance with the French accounts, unhappily xx Buonaparte dates from
Mojaisk, – so that he has evidently not been beaten back. Nevertheless I am satisfied that he has little to boast, & that he may
say with Pyrrhustill they are victorious, I confess myself apprehensive of such a result.
Certes, & Certissime, upon the subject, my disposition to the subject must be taken into the account.
The first proof of the Register is on my table.where I was to draw upon him, & delays writing I suspect for the purpose of procrastinating my bills.
Not that the man is or can be embarrassed, – but that every delay is so much interest saved. Meantime he has about 110£ of mine in his
hands, & while he is shuffling I am in want of money. Can you lend me thirty pounds, till I get this fellows address? As soon as it
comes I will draw upon him to the full & send you the draft. And most assuredly if he attempts to play me any trick I
will have done with him at the end of the volume.
Did you receive the Common-Place-Book?
Downmansxxx of course have no objection to copying from a
picture.
Concerning Marquis Wellington. I suspect some want
of conduct in Clintonto when they storm a place to put the garrison to the sword. Every Frenchman who might have been thus sacrificed at C
Rodrigo would have saved five English at Badajoz.xxxxxxx bungling engineers. An second victory would enable Lord W. to push on part of his army to Vitoria & seize the stores; the
Spaniards might <then> blockade Pamplona, & be these things as they may, I think he will; as soon as he has crippled Massena,
march upon Zaragoza,
I should dearly like to write the history of this war, & to make it as compleat as views, portraits, plans &
human industry could make it. What fine materials the Countess would procure concerning Zaragoza!
I am sorry that Canning stands for Liverpool.