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time been a sort of prisoner at large (whether by the seizure of his effects or by
the equivalent to a ne exeat I have not learnt) for debts contracted here: to free
himself from this thraldom he made application to Sir Horace to intercede
with government without any pretence that I could learn. The merit upon
which he grounded his pretensions to favour on the part of Sir H. was no
other than this libel: whatever favour he might find in the sight of Sir H.
the Uncle, a libel upon Charles Fox was not very well calculated, as your
Lordship may well imagine, to procure him much in the sight of Sir H.
the Nephew, or to give much efficacy to the apreq request of a loan with
which the other application was accompanied. He is a forward prating
fellow, by no means devoid of the talents naturally connected with assurance: as to Lady
Lanesborough, a pleasing well-bred woman, one can not but be concerned to see
a woman of her quality reduced to such a state of degradation. Here also
is or at least was three or four days ago, Mrs Thrale-Piozzi. I saw her
on Tuesday at the Croce d'Oro an Italian Inn sitting in a balcone
tête-a-tête with her caro sposo. They are on the point of returning to a
house they have taken at Milan, where his Brother keeps a Chandler's
shop, the stock of which has been much encreased by the bounty of his English
Sister-in-Law. She has been received I understand in some good houses there
as an English-woman, but nobody but his Brother the Shop-keeper will take
any notice of him. It was this circumstance forced drove them from Milan,
to which place ennui now forces them to return. Piozzi however it is said
makes her a very good husband. They in conjunction with a Mr and Mrs
Greathead, and a Mr Parsons, and I believe one or two more, have within
these few days treated the Florentines with a literary curiosity. It consists of a miscellaneous

Identifier: | JB/540/202/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 540.

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1785-09-27

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202

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Jeremy Bentham

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