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good offices of his correspondent, in behalf of a friend, 

 who was desirous of obtaining a seat as a Commis- 

 sioner at one of the Scottish Boards of Revenue. 

 After detailing the grounds on which the application 

 was to be supported, in terms the most perspicuous 

 and concise, he thus closes the subject : 



" Now, my dear friend,'" he says, " will you take this ex- 

 cellent man under your protection ? It will be truly pleasing 

 to me to hear from you that you are making progress in the 

 matter, and still more so, that your exertions are likely to be 

 crowned with success. 11 



He then mentions the particulars of his own illness in 

 the following terms : " I have been confined to my room 

 for the last six months. An influenza or catarrhal fe- 

 ver left n.e with swelled feet, chiefly at the ancles, and 

 small of the legs ; with burning fiery eruptions, resembling 

 nettle-rush, which resisted every medical application. These, 

 it is true, have abated ; but I am never free from severe 

 chills, and burning heats in the small of the legs, which de- 

 prive me of sleep and ease. For several months my general 

 health was little affected ; but now I find it has suffered, and 

 that my strength is much and daily impaired. My medical 

 men are of the first rank *, and my nurses, being of my own 

 family, are of a sort which does not always fall to the lot 

 of princes. 



" I dare say, 11 he continues, " you may by this time have 

 received the three volumes of correspondence betwixt our late 

 venerable friend Dr Garthshoke and myself. It is the last 

 proof I can offer of my friendship to you. For myself I 

 have nothing to ask, but a continuance of your good opi- 

 nion. 



* Dr Gregory and Dr Thomson. 



