| Description | (Directed to Mr. Bourdon's, rue de Maurepas.)
My dear Son,
I receiv'd with great pleasure your French letter, and have since receiv'd yours of the 14th.
I have the satisfaction to acquaint you that I return'd from Cornwall to this place a few days ago. I am the more satisfy'd with my return as I have had three severe and painfull fits of the gravil upon the road and in Cornwall, which is a new disorder to me, but I am now very well and shall endeavour to keep so.
If you have the means of reading the English newspapers, you will see an account of the riots we have had in Cornwall amongst the miners owing to the low price of copper and to the stoping of some of the mines. At a general meeting of the gentlemen in Cornwall, five gentlemen were appointed as a deputation from the miners to come to London to lay their case before Goverment. Sir F. Bassett, Mr. A. Daniel, Mr. Fox, Mr. Vivian, and my self were the five delegates, but whether we shall be able to accomplish the desired redress is yet uncertain. I suppose this business will keep me in town eight days longer, and therefore I wish to hear from you by return of post.
Pray have you seen Madam De Lassert since I wrote to her? If not, I beg you will make a journey on purpose and let me know her sentiments, for both you and she know mine respecting your residence in Paris under the care of a proper person. Also let me know if Messrs. De Lassert and Mr. Guyott are return'd, or when expected.
When you go to Paris, pray call on Mr. Droz, No. 18 rue Macon (le graveur de money), present my compliments, and tell him I am return'd from Cornwall and that I am impatient to receive le demi sous. I will write to him in a post or two, but beg in the interim he will send me a specimen of the sous.
Jim Watt return'd last night and found his father and me at the Albion Mill. He hath been three weeks at sea coming from Hamburg. He seems improv'd, and speaks very highly of the person he was with, and that I wish you to go to, at Isenac[h]. The days are so short and the winter [so] advanced that I can't reconcile [my] self for you to make so long a jour[ney] at this season; otherwise you should g[o] directly.
I heard from your sister to day; she is well. Mr. and Mrs. Matthews, with Mr. Watt and Jim, are all well and beg to be kindly remember'd to you.
I pray God protect, preserve, and direct you, remaining ever, my dear son, your truly affectionate father,
M. Boulton
Pray write per return of post.
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