| Description | ["A Common Porter left yesterday at about four o’clock, open and unsealed, a letter which I conclude was to have been delivered to me by your German friend the Saxon. I am obliged, as I ought to be, for your kind offer of a Concern in a scheme with french People, but I must beg leave to decline it whatever might be the benefit to result therefrom. Such people as Prad— ought never to be admitted within a Cable’s length, and when I hear of Droz’s crying it brings to my mind the Tears of the crocodile. I can have but one opinion respecting him, and that is, when he has done all he ought to do you ought to pay him every shilling awarded, and till then not a single doit. If ever you suffer him to return to Soho, after he has once left it, the consequence of future uneasiness must remain with you. It’s not in the Power of such a miscreant, to prejudice you in the opinion of men of weight and consequence at Paris. Mr. Mirabeau I will say little of, I know him. The quondam Bishop of Autun I also know, he was the most intimate friend of Panchaud, he is a man of sense but is not (I believe) of the Committee that will consider of Coinage. Any letter you will send to me, I will forward to my friends, but you must not complicate them with Pradeaux or Droz or any other such. My son Jack sets off for Paris on Thursday morning. In my opinion no one can represent you at Pa |