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Tuesday November 14th 1780 London
I wrote to you this day sennight about the
translation being begun. This morning came
yours of Oct. 3d O.S. in one word, this thing
was given away a month after it was known
here to have fallen — given to a person who is
in trade. Not a halfpenny Salary: possibly
but this is a matter of conjecture only, some
occasional douceurs for extra services that occurred.
Good bye to it then: it has cost
me a day, and you I doubt, still more.
However I do not regret it after all: for
it took well with Q.S.P. in whose hands it got
first: it flattered him that people thought
of a man for it at such a distance. I
had a letter from him this morning: for some
how or other, so it happened that it was to
him that it was first carried. He went to
Barking early and so dropt it for me while
I was out. About 4 he called here on his
return: and by that time I was enabled to
tell him how the matter stood. He took
it very cheerfully. The circumstance of the
proposal's having originated in another
quarter has made a favourable impression
on him which I hope will last. I have
got by it a new shield to defend people
with when they are railed at. I sent
for my information to the chambers
No 9. L. not being at home called
on me a few hours afterwards & gave
it me by word of mouth: but I took care
to let him know in my note that that was all the
trouble I should have any need to give
him. The case is I have a better channel:
I should have posted off to Sr.
at Chertsey, and through him have got to
the fountain head, without having any
thing to do with the people you spoke
of. L. seems to have quarrelled with
Ld M. and by that means thrown
himself out of those connections. As
to a noble Lord on the wrong side if
the first it was droll enough that he
should have been thought of on an
occasion like this and added to the
Council proposed. I have not yet been
to him. Now I suppose it is designed
I should go if I please : best I think
I will wait till Introd. is printed.
He will then know it better in what
character to receive me.
Q.S.P. when at Bath scraped acquaintance
with Harris. He pretends to the
should have been thick if he had staid longer. It is now a matter of 9 o'clock & I
better could not write any thing to signify to
so I will ein prate on without any thing
to say. It is a sin I think I never have
yet been guilty of, the sending away of a letter
with half an inch square of paper in it
unwritten upon: while people send me scraps
of notes and letters not too long for cards,
unless when there is some mighty particular
purpose to be answr'd by it. One
letter I received from Chernobyl that deserved
to be sure to be burnt by the common
hangman: the other that at first was
lost made some little amends.
O yes, I learn something to tell you
of, too, though it will not take long in
telling. My Father has at last got a tenant
for the poor miserable abandoned
Malthouse
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