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particular points the additions relate. It will not be published in
less than two months.

I hear of no public news but from the papers I need not therefore repeat
what you see there. If the Genl. Advertiser is to be had at Whitchurch
you will be entertained perhaps with the account given in that paper
of last Saturday of Fox's speech the night before – I am told by those
who heard it that it was equal to any he has ever made & with
the uncommon advantage of being a reply to Pitt who has now
given up the only remaining measure he had struggled for
some time to maintain. The people in the City I hear are beginning
to talk very freely of the inexperience & incapacity of their
late favorite minister & Fox has given them great satisfaction
by his temperate & discriminating opposition to such measures
only as they have disapproved of. If Pitt should have as much
to do next Session I own I should not be surprized to see such a current
agt him as might affect his power – but he has got through all his
Taxes having provided for the Interest of such even of that part
of the debt which will not be regularly funded till next Session – I cannot
forsee that he will have anything to do next Session but to mend
the high roads & enclose commons & make a parading speech about
the produce of the sinking fund & the application of the surplus –
You do not say whether you have heard of your brothers further progress
with Potemkin. He is certainly en bon brain

Yours &c James Trail

Identifier: | JB/009/008/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 9.
Date_1	1784-08-09	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	008	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	james trail	Watermarks	i french
Marginals		Paper Producer	john black
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 512, vol. 3	ID Number	3309
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