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It is said that Lord Wellesley joins the Ministry. 
People seem confident that a great naval victory 
has been gained ;—time will show. 
Yours, 
S. CARLISLE. 
From the same. 
My dear Sir, Dec. 26, 1809. 
Fucus discors and abrotanifolius are certainly one 
and the same. Miss Hill and Mrs. Griffiths can 
give you the details of proof more minutely than I 
can. If youchoose to consult them, send their let- 
ters to me, and I will forward them. Unlike as F/. 
discors and abrotanifolius may seem, the difference 
is only in the breadth of the lower leaves, which 
are rather rudiments of new branches: this dif- 
ference is occasioned by the season of the year, 
depth of water, &c. ; as those scientific ladies, who 
have watched them thoroughly, can demonstrate to 
you. I duly forwarded your letters to Mrs. Grif- 
fiths, a most intelligent investigator. 
I took your Chair at the Linnean Society at the 
last meeting. How shocked was I to see Salisbury’s 
surreptitious anticipation of Brown’s paper on the 
New-Holland plants, under the name and disguise of 
Mr. Hibbert’s gardener! Oh, it is too bad! I 
think Salisbury is got just where Catiline was when 
Cicero attacked him: viz. to that point of shame- 
ful doing when no good man could be found to de- 
fend him. I would not speak to him at the anni- 
