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 Rh charming sister with a holy kiss, and I with old Neptune bestow my embraces there also for yourself. I commend you to the protection of your Guard, and am, dear sir, yours most cordially and faithfully.

15.

To. , 2nd October 1800.

,—I thank you for your very beautiful and encouraging verses, which I account a crown of laurels, and I also thank you for your reprehension of follies by me fostered. Your prediction will, I hope, be fulfilled in me, and in future I am the determined advocate of religion and humility—the two bands of society. Having been so full of the business of settling the sticks and feathers of my nest, I have not got any forwarder with "The Three Maries" or with any other of your commissions; but hope, now I have commenced a new life of industry, to do credit to that new life by improved works. Receive from me