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tion, and that that shall be deemed as a non-avenu, 

 the moment our revocation is known, it will be a good 

 thing the Declaration should have been made for the 

 reasons you state ; but till I hear it is announced, I 

 confess I shall be uneasy. The President will use the 

 war for forwarding his own objects. 



" I see our Birmingham friends are in high spirits, 

 and seem to anticipate no evil. 



" I have no faith in the declaration of Bonaparte in 

 the north, nor do I feel quite confident, as so many do, 

 that the French will very shortly be on the other side 

 of the Ebro. But if the victory of Salamanca should 

 be confirmed, I should forthwith despatch a proposal 

 to Riga, where I suppose the Emperor will soon be 

 found, with instructions to follow him on the road to 

 Petersburg, if he should have taken it. 



" Our harvest has begun this day, and our hay is 

 not all in. The barometer rises, and we have a pros- 

 pect of dry weather to get in the grain, which certainly 

 in this part of the world has not yet suffered by the rain. 

 But I was very much afraid days ago that corn would 

 be nought. 



" What work all this is ! What ! no bills of indict- 

 ment at York no rioters ! What work at Leicester 

 too ! Well, I am very glad we did our duty. 



" I shall be glad to hear from you at all times, and 

 from all places, particularly from Liverpool. The best 

 regards of the party here attend you. Ever yours, 



"S. WHITBREAD. 



" Brand's brother is very ill. You are likely to lose 

 a reformer from the nether House." 



Before leaving town for the circuit (August 1812), 



