letter--for which I once more thank you, and am, very truly, &c.

"P.S. Don't you think Buonaparte's next _publication_ will be
rather expensive to the Allies? Perry's Paris letter of yesterday
looks very reviving. What a Hydra and Briareus it is! I wish they
would pacify: there is no end to this campaigning."

[Footnote 12: It will be recollected that he had announced The Corsair
as "the last production with which he should trespass on public patience
for some years."]

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LETTER 160. TO MR. MURRAY.

"Newstead Abbey, February 5. 1814.

"I quite forgot, in my answer of yesterday, to mention that I have
no means of ascertaining whether the Newark _Pirate_ has been doing
what you say.[13] If so, he is a rascal, and a _shabby_ rascal too;
and if his offence is punishable by law or pugilism, he shall be
fined or buffeted. Do you try and discover, and I will make some
enquiry here. Perhaps some _other_ in town may have gone on
printing, and used the same deception.

"The _fac-simile_ is omitted in Childe Harold, which is very
awkward, as there is a _note_ expressly on the subject. Pray
_replace_ it as _usual_.

"On second and third thoughts, the withdrawing the small poems from