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would be a neat thing, to be sure ; but I don't at all 

 think it off the cards. I have many communications 

 on the subject from Liverpool, but decline doing any- 

 thing. I am sick of Liverpool elections, and won't 

 put myself up against his canine majesty on any 

 account, even if sure of beating him. I shall let some 

 other member of the party take a turn at it this time, 

 having done quite as much as falls to my share already, 

 and in return been kept out of Parliament a whole 

 Parliament and lost almost all the practice I had in 

 this county owing to the election. Yours sincerely, 



H. B. 



" P.S. I have an idea of going for a fortnight to 

 Paris in October, but am not quite resolved. I wish 

 your family were all well enough to let you go too. I 

 take it to be the pleasantest time." 



Dr Shepherd had paid a visit to Paris early in the 

 month of June, and having written a small volume 

 describing all he saw, and comparing his impressions 

 with what he recollected of Paris when he visited it in 

 1802, was kind enough to send me an early copy, 

 which I acknowledged in the following letter, written 

 just after I had sent Jeffrey an article upon the book 

 for the October number of the Keview. 



TO DE SHEPHEED. 



"BROUGHAM, Monday, Sept. 19, 1814. 



" MY DEAR SIR, I received on Saturday morning 



your acceptable volume, for which receive my thanks. 



I swallowed it whole in my walks that day, for this 



delicious weather, and the woods and streams of this 



