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tern was formed in that campaign. I should like to 

 know whether you had any communication with him 

 when you were in office. 



" Sydney Smith found in Yorkshire a sixteenth 

 edition of Plymley, five cheap ones having been sold 

 in the "West Biding.* 



" The last review about Cevallos has given infi- 

 nite offence here, but in Edinburgh I learn that both 

 friends and foes are offended. 



"The Hollands are retrograde, as appears from 

 letters. Ward, his uncle says, has arrived at Bath, 

 but I have not heard from him. 



" The faint attempts at defending the convention 

 and the ministry, which their papers began, have died 

 a natural death. They now turn their whole force 

 against the ' Edinburgh Keview/ which every one 

 ministerial newspaper has now been attacking almost 

 daily for above a week. They have set on new hands 

 to this work, some people think Cooke some Ward. 



"Ferguson's story of the despatch about Moore not 

 being received till after the 1 7th, turns out erroneous, 

 as we suspected. The re-embarkation at Mondego is 

 correct. He (Ferguson) says Wellesley could not 

 produce his case in Burrard's absence, for it consists 

 in throwing the whole blame on Burrard's refusal to 

 allow their pursuit. Burrard is to put all on want of 

 cavalry. The Duke of York will be with him, I pre- 

 sume, so here is a new scrape for Government. Charles 



* The celebrated 'Letters from Peter Plymley to his Brother Abraham,' 

 anonymous, but well known to be the work of Smith. 



