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Friday Aug Augs 25. 1780
In my last which was of the 9th inst: I told
you I should write again before I went to Thorpe: Anderson is gone back to Scotland: nothing would serve
and so here begins. Shill Buchard Anderson him, poor man, but he must engage in an attempt to set
up a weekly magazine; which failed after 6 numbers.
The plague of it is I do not recollect what I
have write to you in my last about Schiller.
I had heard his translation of Smith's
Wealth of nations highly spoken of by a multitude
of Germans: and in particular Raigersfeldt
recommended it to me to get my book translated
by him if I could. I accordingly called
upon him at his lodgings No 73 High
Street Mary-bone about 10 days ago, taking
with me the three first sheets of Code with
a corrected copy of the Prospectus. I had appointed
a time of meeting by letter: I chose
to go to him that I might judge of the man
the better by the stile he lived in. A
lodging though on the first floor: and though not dirty
fetid to the highest degree ; and the appearance
of the man quite that of the Grub street
Post, tall thin and ugly and seemingly half
starved. He turns out after all to be a
more responsible man than one should
easily meet with, having been 19 years in
this country. I never saw a man enter
more into the spirit of any book than he did
into that of mine, stopping short every now &
then and reading aloud with an emphasis
which plainly showed him to have a thorough
comprehension of the contents: the passages which
seemed to strike him the most were those which
I myself should have pitched upon as the
most striking and watched his countenance, &
saw in it all along marks of the most
satisfaction. he asked me with great
eagerness
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PEAKE Pray is it true that Old Peake paid you Harrison the
Taylor's bill upon Jack Peake? Do not fail to answer this.
eagerness for the rest of it: making abundance
of speeches about not making an improper use
of it, and referring me to people for his
character. While I was there came in a
packet to him from which he took occasion
to inform me that he was employ'd to
write the foreign articles in the Critical
Review : I looked at the sheet, and
mis word no bad stile even in English.
He says he writes in French with the
same degree of facility but in that language
I think I should be almost afraid
to trust him. Upon my mentioning Raigersfeldt,
he caught at the name and asked
me whether I were upon an intimate
footing with him: after some little discourse
in that had, at last out it came that he
wished I could introduce him to R.t I told
him I would try. I thought it could be a
good thing for me in several respects: 1. R.
upon the supposition of his having a good opinion
of my book, would contribute to impose
the like opinion into Schiller: 2. the fear
of losing any he might form
by any means might be a sort of security
for his good behaviour. 3. I could <gap/.
to pump S. upon occasion in matters in
which I could not so conveniently appear myself. This I
think was on Monday the 14th. I told him
at the same time how I was circumstanced
with regard to Leonardi, but declined mentioning
his name. He seemed anxious to
know pressed me upon the subject rather
more than >gap/. with civility, and at last
it appeared that it was not of apprehension
lest
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