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1799.] I beg it as a favour that you will come up soon from Newstead as the Holidays commence in three weeks Time. I congratulate you on Capt. Hanson's being appointed commander of The Brazen Sloop of War, and I congratulate myself on Lord Portsmouth's Marriage, hoping