214 KN< JINKS FOR SOUTH AMERICA. 



"My health is much improved; my wife desires her best 

 respects, and thanks for your present. Please to write soon. 



" Yours, &c., 



" RD. TREVITHICK. 

 " ME. UVILLE, 12, East Stien, London" 



[Rough draft.] 



" MR. PAGE, " CAMBORNE, March 8th, 1814. 



" Sir, Yesterday Mr. Joseph Edwards, of Truro, in- 

 formed me that Teague had given notice of trial, and that the 

 case would come on at the Assize on the 26th, and requested 

 me to desire you to write to him immediately, and give him 

 the whole of the transaction relative to Mr. Uville's arrest in 

 London. 



" He also wishes that some attention had been paid to the 

 threat that Mr. Uville received from Teague's so-called friend, 

 so as to ascertain whether it came direct from him, which he 

 thought would have some weight in court. I shall attend to 

 give evidence at the Assize with Mr. Edwards. I shall anxiously 

 await a reply to my last. How does Harvey's business get on ? 



" My respects to Mr. Day, and shall be very glad to find him 

 recovering his health as fast as I am. A crust of bread and 

 clear air are far preferable to luxuries enveloped in clouds of 

 smoke and heaps of filth. 



" Your obedient servant, 



"ED. TREVITHICK. 



" P.S. I hear that Teague is still in London, and that his 

 furniture is removed to his friend's house, to save it from the 

 hands of surrounding evil spirits." 



Trevithick showed no undue amount of discontent on 

 discovering that Uville had led him into pecuniary 

 difficulties, and even his tendency to interfere in en- 

 gineering matters was not hastily resented. 



In December, 1813, while in London, arranging for 

 a vessel to convey the engines to Lima, and also to 



