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at Oxford, but he is not in Priest's Orders yet. I have not yet 

 seen my young Sailor. 



I understand that on this day there is to be a Meeting of the 

 Parties of Fox & Pitt, to form a Coalition. I wish it Success, but 

 I almost despair. 



Mrs Mulso & my family are tolerable & send affte Comps. ^ 

 best wishes to You & Your's, & your Neighbourhood. 



I am. Dear Gil, Your's very afftely, 



J. Mulso. 



Letter 205. 

 Reverend Mr White, Winchester. 



Selbourne near Alton, Hants. + at Alton June 2, 1784. 



Dear Gil : 



I received your kind Letter, signifying your Return to 

 Selbourne. You & your family have a Turn for improving every 

 place that You belong to. I have no Ability for these things 

 either in Genius or Fortune, & therefore it has seem'd to please 

 a kind Providence to provide Situations for me tolerably com- 

 pleated to my hands : & This I hope I am thankful! for. We 

 are, according to the old moralizing Proverb, " here to day A 

 gone tomorrow," for we design to adjourn to Meonstoke, please 

 God, tomorrow ; & there I hope to hear from You, when your 

 Leizure serves, & to see you at your Time. I am glad to hear 

 that yr Neighbour* endured her Tryals wth so much Resigna- 

 tion ; but I take them to be a good People : I hope You will 

 retain them that are left in your Neighbourhood. New Friends 

 may be an Amusement, but ** the old are better." Of Dr Balguy 

 it may be said, here is the Man that refused a Bishoprick ; & 

 of You, here is ye Man who refused Livings, & served Curacies. 



My Rib & my Daughters are pretty well & much at yr 

 Service. My Son John, your Cotemporary, busy at Oxford 

 about his Priest's Orders & his Master's Degree ; & wishing 

 for an humble Fellowship, that he may go out to Curacies &o : 

 I think by the time that You leave Faringdon, You might get 

 him in there, & he might get Shelter for his head at Selborne 

 & travell over on Sundays, as You do. Yet I am not fond 

 of his leaving Oxford till he has got his Fellowship : for, " out 

 of Sight, out of Mind." As ye Dean of Exeter's eldest Son 

 is for ye army, & ye 2d not grown up, there is a small Hope 

 for Jack there ; but ye many Connexions of the Dean in Corn- 

 wall & Devonshire make it but a faint one. I should wish his 

 Situation nearer to me. My William is going or gone in the 

 Unicom to Jamaica, recommended by his Uncle ye Admiral to 



• Mrs. Etty, ■whose husband, the Vicar of Selborne, had died in April, 1784. 



