Soon after the receipt of the letters which we had the pleasure of
communicating in the foregoing chapter, the following was received
from Mrs. Pringle, and the intelligence it contains is so
interesting and important, that we hasten to lay it before our
readers:-


LETTER VI


Mrs. Pringle to Miss Mally Glencairn--LONDON.

My Dear Miss Mally--You must not expect no particulars from me of
our journey; but as Rachel is writing all the calamities that befell
us to Bell Tod, you will, no doubt, hear of them. But all is
nothing to my losses. I bought from the first hand, Mr. Treddles
the manufacturer, two pieces of muslin, at Glasgow, such a thing not
being to be had on any reasonable terms here, where they get all
their fine muslins from Glasgow and Paisley; and in the same bocks
with them I packit a small crock of our ain excellent poudered
butter, with a delap cheese, for I was told that such commodities
are not to be had genuine in London. I likewise had in it a pot of
marmlet, which Miss Jenny Macbride gave me at Glasgow, assuring me
that it was not only dentice, but a curiosity among the English, and
my best new bumbeseen goun in peper. Howsomever, in the nailing of
the bocks, which I did carefully with my oun hands, one of the nails
gaed in ajee, and broke the pot of marmlet, which, by the jolting of
the ship, ruined the muslin, rottened the peper round the goun,