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among Creditors. Reynolds has already had £1500. Wilkes, poor Devil! is in
a miserable plight: his books and household furniture were taken in Execution
about 6 weeks ago and sold: he goes about quite shabby now and almost
in rags. He says in all companies, he will undertake to prove that Bull
has got more by him, than he by Bull. The voyes-de-fait between
the Ld Mayor and Ald.n Plomer offerd as you may imagine much matter
of diversion to the gay, and of discomposure to the grave. Our friend, whom
I think one may rank in the latter class, speaks of it with a long visage:
he gets roasted about it wherever he goes. Plomer it seems hit the Ld Mayor
a slap of the face before his Ldship lifted up his hand against him, which
he did, not to strike, but only to push him away: what makes it worse is
the Ld Mayor was & is in a very bad state of health, & very feeble. This from
Sealy, who had it from the other Alderman who was present. I think it was
Kennet. It was he who cracked the joke which you see in the papers.

In my way. this morning I called at Q.S.P. and had the satisfaction
of finding your two letters one of which was notified by that I received at
Thorpe. I don't like, my dear Father, to hear of this gout, so slight and so
universal: I had the pleasure however to hear from Mrs Far that
she had a letter from you yesterday in which you mention your being
then much relieved from it, if not free: and I hope to have the satisfaction
of seeing you some time in the course of the winter equipped in
a regular decent way, with a proper kind of shoe, upon a proper kind
of stool, and all in order: and however much amiss you may take it, if
you chance to be in that predicament already, I would for the sake of that
satisfaction readily submit to receive a broken head or two from your stick
for the traitorous and rebellious offence of coming within 2 yards of the said
stool. In the mean time under the apprehension least you should be in want of

Identifier: | JB/538/381/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1779-09-23	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	381	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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