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British Library, Add MS 30927. Previously published: John Wood Warter (ed.), Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, 4 vols (London, 1856), II, pp. 147–150.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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Danvers arrived on Monday night, not till ten o clock when we had given him up.
He has brought with him David Jardine & his cousin Lewis,iesy Societies,
Curwens billeither to buy, sell or assist in the sale of any place under government, all persons who offended are
provided with means of escaping discovery. It is no longer of any avail to appoint Committees of the House & examine them, – to
every question (which before this rascally bill they were obliged to answer) they have now only to reply ‘I must not criminate myself’
– It is a legal answer, – the question cannot be prest. – from this time forward therefore the trade is secured from all possibility of
discovery, & this was what Perceval brought the bill in for. As for Curwen
he neither meant harm nor good. He is a hunter after popularity, & merely thought to curry a little by doing something which should
be talked about. The more I have seen of him the less have I liked him.
Sharp is here, & I have a design upon him for the benefit of your
letter.see not seen since I stopt at his rooms at Oxford in 1792, seventeen years & a half
ago.
The second Quarterly contains only one article of mine,r Salt
The Austrians have disappointed my fears, & things seem fairly on the balance, with this advantage on their side
that they have a good cause, & must therefore necessarily get the better in the long run, if they hold out.he cannot the common laws of war would hardly be granted to him, – but he might be hung as he would hang
Chastillas. I open the Courier
That article upon the Austrians in the second Quarterly is written by George Ellis, & has been revised by Canning.xx difference of
opinions upon less important subjects for the sake of joining in in that chorus.
Poor Jackson is going very fast indeed. Your nephew is as happy as the day is long, & is as good as he is happy. Your niece goes on well – & Bertha is I think the sweetest infant of all our children, – at least I never loved so young a one so much before.