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Jan:y 26. 1778 7 o'clock

Your letter, my dear Sam, is but just come in - how
monstrous late the Post is!

As to the Huntingdon scheme, I have about as good an
opinion of it as you have. Q.S.P. has mentioned it to me
and to my Uncle. — Yesterday he told me of his having written
to you about it. What use there would be in your coming to
town about it is more than I can see. At any rate let him
make what enquiries about it he has in mind: it will be
"pushing", it will serve him for amusement, and keep him quiet for a
while. But I do not think that a prospect so uncertain
ought to keep the money from being laid out in the stocks.
While it lays lies dead, there is a certain loss: at the worst
it is but the expence of brokerage which I think is not
more than 2s - 6d pr Cent. Q.S.P. (before he started the Huntingdon scheme) mentioned it as his
desire that the money should be invested in the funds, and bid
me tell my Uncle so.

It is an aphorism I have often heard out of the mouth
of Mr Abbot that the way to get any thing from Lord Sandwich
was to have a vote for Huntingdon. If the scheme cannot
misscarry whatever hands it is in, it will succeed in those
of Q.S.P.

No. I heard nothing of what you tell me about Mr
L my Uncle to speak to

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