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Crichoff Decr 19/30 1786

Great comfort to get a letter from you at last,
but some chagrin to find I have been destroying the better part
of my life, as you pretend to do your vacations. I had ordered
horses for England to take triumphant possession of the throne of
Legislation, but finding it full of Mr Paley I ordered them
back into the Stable — Since then I have been tormenting myself
to no purpose to find out some blind alley in the Career of
Fame which Mr Paley's magnanimity may have disdained —
After all I have been obliged to go a begging to my brother &
borrow an idea of his which I have dressed up with a little
tinsel of my own & now send to London as a private venture.
Pasue, nec invides, sine me liber ibis in urbem — I think you
have told me more than once that if it were possible for my
scrawl to be tolerable in any shape it would be in that of letters.
I have accordingly given that form to my twopenny halfpenny pamphlet,
consisting I suppose of from 150 to 200 pages — Being a
sort of flying castle, or to speak more to the times an Air balloon,
it sweeps over all sorts of ground — Amongst the rest it passes
over the ruins of the poor old penitentiary house — There I have
occasion, or perhaps you will say no occasion, to fling a stone or
two once more at Goliah Eden. This you will be sorry for as
before for the same reason that David's brethren were for David.
On the other hand if you happen to think any of them give
him a twinge, you will be glad because Goliah is a Philistine.
Now for a little Job for you which I have taken care to have
you at the most perfect liberty to take in hand or let alone
as you have a mind — I have not here the penitentiary house
act Which passed not any thing belonging to that affair but my
own view of the hard labour bill — Consequently I have been
forced

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Date_1	1786-12-19	Marginal Summary Numbering
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