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" The other is, to get my servant John's wife put 

 on the list of Corsican bounties. She is a Corsican 

 subject, who came with the army from thence. He 

 has served nine years in our army and in Egypt, 

 where he lost his eye and had to leave the service. 

 He has a son still in it, and two other young children, 

 both born in Corsica. He has, I think, a very good 

 right to this empenho : I believe he has it by the 

 regulations certainly by the practice ; for there are 

 people here who I know have such bounties merely 

 by favour, and from having been in Corsica, though 

 their wives and children never were, or near it. He 

 has been extremely useful both here and in the 

 north, more so than I can easily describe." 



While I was at Lisbon I received the following 

 letter from London, from my excellent friend Whishaw. 

 The unsolicited kindness of the concluding paragraph 

 I can never forget.""* 



" LINCOLN'S INN, September 19, 1806. 



" MY DEAR BROUGHAM, I am extremely obliged 

 to you for your letter, and much pleased with the 

 intelligence so far as it relates to yourself. It is 

 highly satisfactory to know that you go on so well 

 with Lord Eosslyn, and that he agrees with you in 



* John Whishaw, now little known, is often respectfully referred to 

 in the correspondence of the day. He was connected with Romilly, 

 and appointed his executor. He took a keen interest in the abolition 

 of the slave trade, and was an authority on currency. In 1790 he 

 gained the prize for a Latin essay on a theme by the Vice-Chancellor 

 of Cambridge, " Whether the French Revolution was likely to prove 

 advantageous or injurious to this country," taking the side of " advan- 

 tageous." Mem. of Romilly, i. 404. 



