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you are to be here; I wish I could tell them. I go to 

 Scotland some time towards the end of July. That would 

 be a journey that would do you a great deal of good. I 

 can send you nothing from here that would interest you. 

 Carlisle and I talk very often about you, and wish you 

 here. We are much afraid of a Spanish war. The letters 

 from America bring good news. They are very tired of 

 the war, and the Congress much divided. My dear 

 George, do let me hear that you are coming to us again. — 

 Always most affectionately yours, etc. 



APPENDIX M2. 



Dkumlanrig, 8 Septr. 1779. 



My dear Sir, — The Duke of Queensberry desires 

 me to write to you, and to assure you that he regrets 

 having been prevented for some time past from having the 

 pleasure of corresponding with you himself. He has been 

 engaged in a great variety of business, and what is most 

 material for you to know, he has preserved his health and 

 spirits surprisingly. 



When the Duke came into this country, he found that 

 there had been two very ineffectual meetings of the 

 gentlemen of the county, called together for the purpose 

 of supporting Government as far as their abilities would 

 admit ; but, like most other assemblies of that kind, they 

 broke up without determining anything. Soon after his 

 arrival he had a meeting of the county again called, and 

 laid before them in a very masterly manner a proposal, in 

 which he was seconded by Lord Stormont, and carried it 



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