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After all I cannot but confess that it is natural enough for us to
take a pleasure in receiving assurances of many things of which if we
allow ourselves to reflect we can find no cause to doubt: and that a letter
adressed to ourselves from a person who is dear to us has a certain charm
in it which would not be possessed by the very same letter if adressed
to any body else. I can am indeed more fully convinced of this by the
superior satisfaction which I am certain it would have afforded me
had I been so happy as to receive this very intimation in question from
yourself and under your own hand, instead of receiving it at second
hand from a third person. although that person is my brother. I therefore
embrace with pleasure the occasion you have thus afforded me of assuring
you seperately and expressly that you have never failed nor can ever
fail to occupy in my remembrance a place correspondent to that
which it makes me happy to perceive I occupy in yours.
I cannot help looking on myself as under a kind of exile, though
not a dishonourable nor in other respects an unpleasurable one,
living as I do and for some time am like to do at this distance
from you and my other friends: but I please myself with the
thoughts of gaining myself at least a temporary suspension from
it, I am affraid to say positively by when, but I hope within the
course of next summer.
You will have heard before this time of my
being appointed Lieutenant Colonel in the army a favour which I am
told has not been conferred before on either foreigner or native who had
not previously a military rank. The regiment I am of is at Chersen
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