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friendship with which I am always, — Very sincerely 

 y«^^«' M. AND R. 



APPENDIX F2. 



Almack's, Tuesday Night. 



My dear George, — I have had both your letters, and 

 am very glad to hear that you find yourself so much better. 

 We have nothing here but bad news, for Burgoyne's 

 capitulation is believed by all people, though Government 

 has not received any authentic accounts of it. To-day 

 there is a report that he is dead, which comes by a letter 



from Franklin. B has made an opposition speech in 



his usual manner, full of damned metaphors and simile, that 

 do not apply. In one part of his speech he said, addressing 

 himself to Wedderburne, that though a squalling starling, 

 he thought he had a right to reply to the learned canary 

 bird. In another part he said, that though a poor apothe- 

 cary and quack, he might prescribe a remedy with success, 

 when the regular physician had failed : — that he should 

 recommend anodyne plasters rather than corrosive blisters. 

 The whole was in this style, and Burke said, that his 

 honourable friend had spoken like an independent country 

 gentleman, and a very accomplished orator. 



Lord Gower made a most incomparable reply to Lord 

 Chatham.^ They oppose the adjournment to-morrow. I 

 have lived at your house almost ever since you left London. 

 My house smells of paint, and I thought it made me ill. 

 Farewell. — Yours very affectionately, 



March and R. 



^ Ou a motion to inquire into the state of the country. 



