Friday Augs 25. 1780

In my last which was of the 9th inst t: I told Anderson is gone back to Scotland: nothing would serve you I should write again before I went to Thorpe: him, poor man, but he must engage in an attempt to set and so here begins. Anderson up a weekly magazine; which failed after 6 numbers. The plague of it is I do not recollect what I have wrote to you in my last about Schiller.

I had heard his translation of Smith's Wealth of nations highly spoken of by a multitude of Germans: and in particular Raigersfeldt recommended it to me to get my book translated by him if I could. I accordingly called upon him at his lodgings No 73 High Street Mary-bone about 10 days ago, taking with me the three first sheets of Code with a corrected copy of the Prospectus. I had appointed a time of meeting by letter: I chose to go to him that I might judge of the man the better by the stile he lived in. A mean lodging though on the first floor: and though not dirty fetid to the highest degree ; and the appearance of the man quite that of the Grub street Post, tall thin and ugly and seemingly half starved. He turns out after all to be a more responsible man than one should easily meet with, having been 19 years in this country. I never saw a man enter more into the spirit of any book than he did into that of mine, stopping short every now & then and reading aloud with an emphasis which plainly shewed him to have a thorough comprehension of the contents: the passages which seemed to strike him the most were those which I myself should have pitched upon as the most striking and watched his countenance, & saw in it all along marks of the most unfeigned satisfaction. He asked me with great eagerness

PEAKE Pray, is it true that Old Peake paid you Harrison the Taylor's bill upon Jack Peake? Do not fail to answer this.

eagerness for the rest of it: making abundance of speeches about not making an improper use of it, and referring me to people for his character. While I was there came in a packet to him from which he took occasion to inform me that he was employ'd to write the foreign articles in the Critical Review : I looked at the sheet, and upon my word no bad stile even in English. He says he writes in French with the same degree of facility: but in that language I think I should be almost afraid to trust him. Upon my mentioning Raigersfeldt, he caught at the name and asked me whether I were upon an intimate footing with him: after some little discourse on that head, at last out it came that he wished I could introduce him to R.t I told him I would try. I thought it could be a good thing for me in several respects: 1. R. upon the supposition of his having a good opinion of my book, would contribute to impose the like opinion into Schiller: 2. the fear of losing any he might form with R. by my means might be a sort of security for his good behaviour. 3. I could set R. to pump S. upon occasion in matters in which I could not so conveniently appear myself. This I think was on Monday the 14 th. I told him at the same time how I was circumstanced with regard to Leonardi, but declined mentioning his name. He seemed anxious to know, pressed me upon the subject rather more than with civility, and at last it appeared that it was not of apprehension lest