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derive from the short intervals of intercourse you honor me with in your annual visits to Lincoln; & always consider it as one of the most agreeable circumstances attending my residence here, & the habit of rising a little earlier than some of those who enter more deeply into the amusements of a Race Week overnight than I do, that by these means, & the bait of a bit of brown Bread, I procure a few minutes of your instructive company. And I well remember on one of these occasions you were so obliging as to make me the promise, which you have now so amply fullfill'd.
As to our to our beloved & most excellent K, I fear our provincial Practitioner Dr. W. has been a little too sanguine in his hopes: and, by thinking himself seemingly too much at home, has laid himself open to the observations of those, who appear by no means to have been so candid, as they were disposed to be keen. He may comfort himself however with this consideration as a kind of compliment, that they, who are most adverse to his conduct, are not they who are most anxious apparently abt. the K's recovery. So that, if they really wish to have him removed from his situation one may suspect, it is not so much through an apprehension lest he should fail in the cure, as lest he shd. be too successful. The event has been a most severe blow, tho' too much merited I doubt, both on national welfare, & domestic comfort. The attempt to supply the defect thus occasiond on one part has been a most arduous undertaking; tho' I trust now almost happily effected to a certain degree; certainly conducted in my opinion at least by the present Ministry with great insight, prudence, & management. As to the charge which report announces as taking place in the R's Haram at such a time,