sure, because I saw it.

"With the Reviews I have been much entertained. It requires to be
as far from England as I am to relish a periodical paper properly:
it is like soda-water in an Italian summer. But what cruel work you
make with Lady * * * *! You should recollect that she is a woman;
though, to be sure, they are now and then very provoking; still, as
authoresses, they can do no great harm; and I think it a pity so
much good invective should have been laid out upon her, when there
is such a fine field of us Jacobin gentlemen for you to work upon.

"I heard from Moore lately, and was sorry to be made aware of his
domestic loss. Thus it is--'medio de fonte leporum'--in the acmé of
his fame and his happiness comes a drawback as usual.

"Mr. Hoppner, whom I saw this morning, has been made the father of
a very fine boy[15].--Mother and child doing very well indeed. By
this time Hobhouse should be with you, and also certain packets,
letters, &c. of mine, sent since his departure.--I am not at all
well in health within this last eight days. My remembrances to
Gifford and all friends.

"Yours, &c.

"B.

"P.S. In the course of a month or two, Hanson will have probably to
send off a clerk with conveyances to sign (Newstead being sold in
November last for ninety-four thousand five hundred pounds), in
which case I supplicate supplies of articles as usual, for which,