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and we know to whom we stand indebted for his good
opinion — A negociation is on foot respecting an English
boy from the Isle of Cephalonia where we find ourselves
made known by the excellent Colonel Stanhope — Our valued
Mr Thompson has been speaking of us at Cork and we know
that Mr Place indefatigable as he is in promoting the
cause of human happiness in other directions finds time
to speak of Hazelwood — The time I perceive is not far
off when at least half our population will have been furnished
indirectly or directly by yourself. It gives me in common
with freedom's friends in general great satisfaction to find
the good seed which you have sown so long ago promising
to yield a crop even in England where it might have
been justly suspected of having fallen by the wayside.
Should the abolition of those laws about usury which you
to the satisfaction of every reader of common sense have proved
to be not only worthless but mischievous — Should this good end
be thwarted by the members of that Assembly whose heads
are always in the clouds, and who thence forsooth are called
the upper house, yet the triumph of truth and science
as regards the mass of the people will be highly gratifying
and encouraging if not complete. I have been much
amused, interested and I will add instructed by a work
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