LETTER CXCVIII 305 



You to spread it as a Bit of Scandall; as a Secret I have no 

 Reserve, for my Son writes me word of it from Oxford, & Mr 



F himself told it ye day before yesterday to Mr Sturges wth 



much Exultation. So his Plan is answer' d all ways. 



We go on in a mozy way in this unspringly Spring. I can- 

 not get my Lent Corn into ye Ground, it is so wet, & I cannot 

 get my Horses hither to drag me about. Jack is return'd to 

 Oxford. William is wth us, & has Leave of Absence fm the 

 Hinchinbrook at Sheerness, for a Month from Apl 15, and we 

 hope to have got his blood into some order by that Time. My 

 Wife is well, & my Jenny in good Health, but Hester is but 

 poorly wth her Head, Side & Stomach. My Sister Chapone has 

 had a very great Bleeding at her Nose, which wth ye Losses of 

 our own family, & ye Burrowses by ye Death of Mrs CuUen 

 Smith, her friend, has lower'd her too much. She has now a 

 Lodging at a Mrs North's in Stephen Street, Rathbone Place. 

 My Brother Mulso is much perplexed by the bad condition of 

 poor Ned's affairs. 



Do You reap any Advantage by the Change in public 

 Ministers ? If You do, I shall be glad. Dr Warton has got a 

 Living in Hertfordshire from ye Bp of London, of 250 pr an. It 

 is a good Bisk in his Sleeve in Case of being disabled in his 

 present lucrative Business.* Mrs Warton looks very ill. Our 

 Neighbour Pyle is in a dangerous Way. I hold out, tho' lame 

 & sick & sorry at times, thinking more of changing my World, 

 than of the Changes of the World ; & only sollicitous for my 

 Wife & young Folks. You are free fm these Incumbrances, & 

 so far happy. That You may be in every respect so, is the 

 constant wish of, 



My dear Gil, Your's afftely, 



J. Mulso. 



Letter 198. 

 Revd Mr White, 



Selbourne near Alton, Hants. -|- at Alton. Winton, 



Dear Gil : June 2d, 1782. 



I saw our Arch Deacon ye other day, & he told me that 

 He did not meet You at his Visitation ; I hope you was pre- 

 vented by Business, or ye Fear of ye wet weather, or Something 

 else than Illness. We have many ill here, but we have learnt 

 ye Name of ye Influenza from London, where it was once used 

 before; I do not find that the Complaint here had any other 

 Appearances than a feavorish Cold, which naturally operated 



• Dr Joseph Warton had been head master of Winchester College since 

 1766. 



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