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either, side. I was only interested in this as it concerned you. When I was in town in April or May I was talking with one or two friends about Captain Woodford, & his great intimacy with Mr. Windham our late Member for Norwich - their connection or acquaintance with the man called Peter Porcupine, Cobbet I think is his name. Then the attack on you was mentioned. Since that I heard there was another attack on you in the same paper. Now from what I heard, then, & from the general style of Windham's & his friends talk here about the election time, their wonderful antipathy to every thing relating to France, & their peculiar displeasure at your letter to the Institute; I have no doubt the attack comes from thence. Even, I had the honour (for so I really esteem it) to be glanced at with you in an election squib, though I scorn all electioneering, & merely gave my vote to the best of my judgment, which was at any rate to get rid of Mr. Windham. He has stirred up more animosity in the town, & calumniated it both publickly & privately more extensively than can well be conceived for having formerly been associated himself with the very extreme of the democratic party, he has ever since been labouring to confound with that all those who did not exactly agree with him in his new opinions & alarms. I trust however England has weathered the storm, & that his party