| Description | [Count Luchese asked after you the other day: he has learned the arrival at Naples of the Engine, but has no tidings of it’s being put up. I find your old friend Mr. Vere must bring his Estates to Sale, and that James Wyatt is to guide his managers as to the price of them. The Estates with Bedworth appear to be the principal objects, and Exhall Hall, the minor one, although the place of residence. I am tempted from the precarious state of commerce, and from the doubt under the present calamitous circumstances whether the Funds will increase in value or not, to employ a certain sum in the purchase of land. I should esteem it very kind of you to favour me with your opinion of these Estates. Everything is in a strange situation here: the scurrility in the daily Papers will show how high Parties run. The Address from the merchants, bankers and traders to Mr. Pitt, notwithstanding every unfair opposition is most respectably and numerously signed. Is Birmingham much benefitted by the Commercial Treaty so as to be totally silent? Under the circumstances of the large sums you have expended to forward the Plan of a Copper Coinage I can imagine the propriety of your being passive.] |