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by the Ministry with a pension of £200 a year, which
he is reported to enjoy at this time.
You may easily imagine, that, if I had taken it
the least ill that you did not call upon me, I should
not have sent you the pamphlet, trifling as it is; but
I thought myself sufficiently obliged to you for the loan
of the book relating to the edicts of Tuscany, which
afforded me much information; and you would do me
a great favour to inform me of any thing of that kind
concerning any government in Italy, which has been
published since 1770, should it have fallen in your way.
I am not a little flattered with the opinion
you are so good as to form of my papers in Young's
annals. I intend to give him some upon the moral
causes, and afterwards to publish them myself in a
distinct volume, with many additions, and shall avail
myself of your kindness in offering to do any thing
for me in Italy. You will be able to inform me of
some changes that have taken place, since the year
1770 when I left it; and to clear up some things which
I did not observe in so explicit a manner as I could
wish, though I did not lose much time during the
long residence that I made there. Most of my
friends are dead, who could be of real service to
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