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Thorpe Friday 21 Septr

Dear Sir

I enclose some more letters & scraps of letters from Bentham - For
want of room I have been obliged to cut off the least material parts of
many of them, & by that means have sometimes sent you imperfect sentences,
but I believe you don't want any thing of consequence — The last
half sheet came yesterday —

I received your letter with the Addenda by Mrs & Miss Davies — If
it had not been to the circumstance of your leaving so much blank
paper that I owed the postscripts from the ladies, I should have been
quite out of humour with that unlucky battle with the combined fleet
that called you out so abruptly — I had not heard at that time of
Darby's being even at sea, but thinking that naval news from Chatham
deserved some attention, I waited with considerable impatience 'till the
Newspaper came in next morning. We have no great opportunities of
procuring first rate intelligence here and to make amends
a good deal on such as we have — We augur from
a paragraph in the Saturday's gazette about the Russian at
Leghorn, but on the other hand we are in great tribulation about N.
York for fear De Grasse should swallow it up before Hood gets
there. As to the Channel fleet I dare say it will perform no great
feats — The enemy will probably have been put into Brest by the late
blowing weather & by the time they come out again it will be convenient
for the Spaniards to go home — Miss Davies's letter gave
me great pleasure being a proof of her perfect obedience to her husband
without whose absolute command she says she would not have
written it — Tell Miss D. that being near the Court at Windsor I
mean to offer a plan for bringing some pieces of Cannon against a certain
summer house at Brompton which it is said has annoyed his
Majesty's Army more than the French Spaniards & Dutch put together.
I have been trying to no purpose to conjecture the unpleasant circumstances
which have out you of time for writing letters — I congratulate
Mr Joseph on his literary progress Which I hope does not prevent his
riding Taaffe to Water & continuing his other manly occupations.

Adieu
G.W.

Identifier: | JB/539/239/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1781-09-21	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	239	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	George Wilson	Watermarks
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