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1781-10-7

Bowood Oct. 7. 1781

Yours of the 29th of Sept.r I think I acknowledged in my
last, which I believe was dated Wedn. 3d instant: since then
nothing very particular has occurred in this place. That same day
I think it was, came Hamilton (of Payne's -hill) and his wife from
Bath: Ld Shelburne sent his carriage for them; and sent them
back yesterday. Hamilton has been giving his assistance in laying
out the grounds here. He is an old man of 75 or 76, and is besides
very much affected at times with the : but this time
he was very chearful and alert. There came at the same time
a Mr Tonge or Tongue, who has no connection with them, but
as it happened came & went on the same day with them. An
insipid insignificant man, who lives at Bristol: I could perceive
no other bond of connection than the circumstance of his having
once rented a house about a mile from Ld Shelburne's
which his Lordship has just pulled down.

On Thursday came General Johnson, a neighbour of
Ld Shelburne's: he is Equerry to the King, & had been in waiting.
He is an old man, is deaf at times, and has got the
nick-name (so I learnt by accident) of old sulky. He travels
in a leathern conveniency of the same name. The account he gives
of Governor Murray quadrates very exactly with that which Barre
was giving; and being a government man may the better be depended
upon. He has a son there, to whom he acknowledges that
Murray has been very kind, so that there does not appear to be

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