he never did any thing for me or my relations. I assure you, my dear
friend, that I had rather read and hear all your little story of a
white hen getting into a tree, an anecdote of Fatima, or hear you
call--"Cupidy! Cupidy!" than any speech I shall hear in parliament:
because I know, although you can adapt your language and manners to
a child, yet that you can also thunder forth such a torrent of
eloquence, that corruption and infamy would sink before your voice, in
however _exalted_ a situation it might be placed.

Poor Oliver! what can be the matter with him?

I must leave my cot here, till my discharge, when it shall come to the
farm, as cots are the best things in the world for our sea friends.

Why not have the pictures from Davison's, and those from Dodd's;
especially, my father's, and Davison's?

_A-propos_! Sir William has not sat, I fear, to Beechey. I want a
half-length, the size of my father's and Davison's.

I wonder your pictures are not come from Hamburg! You have not lost
the directions for unfolding them; nor the measure, that I may have
frames made for them? For, up they shall go, as soon as they arrive.
What, have your picture, and not hang it up? _No_; I will submit, in
the farm, to every order but _that_.

The weather, to-day, is tolerable; but, I do not think I could well
get on shore: but Thursday, I hope, will be a fine day.

I shall call on Mr. Pitt, make my visit at the Hospital, and get off