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avoid it. However, let their fate be what it may, I wish them 

 happy. 



Pray bring what you transcribe respecting the /copwrj and 

 ^eXtSwv ; some use may possibly be made of it. I rejoice to 

 hear that Dr. Chandler is well. I most readily condole with 

 you on the sad calamity that has befallen at Windsor ; and 

 pray to God that He will be pleased speedily to restore the 

 King to a right use of his faculties. Should the nation be 

 long deprived of one of its states, so necessary to the consti- 

 tution, such a spirit of party, it is to be feared, will break 

 forth, as may make what we remember of political struggles a 

 mere civil game to what may ensue. 



Mr. Loveday has just written me a letter, in which he says, 

 " If in the perusal any things should occur worthy of remark, 

 such observations shall be transmitted to Selborne." Now 

 pray tell that gent, that any strictures from such a quarter 

 will be most gratefully received ; and be sure to add, that 

 could such have been obtained before publication, they would 

 have been deemed inestimable. Pray come on the 24th; for 

 if you cannot be as regular in your migrations as a ring- 

 ousel or a swallow, where is the use of all your knowledge ? 

 since it may be outdone by instinct. When L d Botetourt was 

 Governor of Virginia, a slave, meeting him, pulled off his cap, 

 and made him a bow, which the benevolent peer returned. 

 Good God ! says a by-stander, does your L d ship pay any 

 regard to such a wretch? By all means, says the good 

 nobleman : would you have me outdone in common civility 

 by a negroe ? Mrs. J. Wh. joins in respects to you and J. 

 Etty ; and to Mr. Yentris, when you see him. 



Yr most humble servant, 



GIL. WHITE. 



