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Dec r 29 th 1778. Linc. Inn. M r Far
Dec r 29 th 1778. Linc. Inn.

M r Far has quitted his chambers and retired to Q.S.P.

there to be nursed &c till Midsummer when Charles & he go to

their new purchase. He has sent to me a writing table with

a green cloth to it and a dumb waiter to take charge of till

he comes to want them.

I have just been dining at Q.S.P. to meet our dear friends

the Burtons. Burton has asked leave to introduce to me a D r

Smith who wrote a pamphlet giving an account of the state of

the prisons in London and has spent between 4 & 500 £

in medicines for the prisoners not to mention his own advice

Burton speaks of him as a 2 d Howard. He is busy with

Blackstone in framing the Hard Labour Bill. Burton says he

is to have the place of Inspector general of the H. Lab. Houses

which is to be £300 a year & all expences.

I have just received your letter - what you tell me

of the Cot astonishes me — I told you I believe of my Porter's

having assured me that they told him at the Inn it went

on the Thursday after the day it should have gone — I will

see farther about it

The day after I received & answered your letter about

the Cub, I wrote a penny letter which I sent by a Porter

to Sambouski, telling him I understood he had a young Gentleman

under his care &c that if he had not concluded with a

person &c I should be glad to talk with him & should be glad

to know when it would be agreable to him I should wait on

him there or if he came my way I should be equally glad

to see him here. The Porter brought me word that he was

not in town nor was he expected till Saturday (that is last Saturday.
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