| Description | [In answer to your kind letter to my father and your postscript to me. We are happy to observe your intention of paying us a visit next month. By that time I hope my baggage will be arrived from Vienna and I shall be in possession of the mercury ore which I have destined for you. Nevertheless there is some risk of my losing my labour, for although Dumourier through whose hands my baggage must pass, may have no taste for mineralogy, his soldiers may be glad of an opportunity of breeching themselves though at the expence of a neutral subject. My father thanks you for changing some of the articles in the commission for Plate he troubled you with. He means to reserve the Bread Basket for his own use. It is to be hoped that with the prudent measures taken everywhere for the suspension of the dangerous spirit some people were trying to instil into the minds of the lower classes, we may arrive at the bringing Tom Paine into disrepute. Many persons expect War: I believe we are trying to make peace.] |