Lind is in the country & will not be in town

this week — If he has any acquaintance at all

with S r J. Lindsay it must be a very faint

one: nor has he any way of coming at him but

through Lord Mansfield, which is none at all

Therefore think no more of that project, which on

other accounts is a chimerical one — Why won't the

Formidable do? what should make you in a hurry?

I shall endeavour to get your letter away from Lind.

before he sees it — Your things are sent to night.

As you are not going to leave Chatham in a hurry,

there is no need of my being in any violent hurry

to go there. I shall certainly not be with you before

Saturday: probably not till Monday. By staying till

that time I shall be able to dispatch all my letters;

and have my business done Wilson

is looking over me and saying "poor mind" — which has

determined me to scratch out the last part of the last

sentence — there — there's enough of it

I shall bring the first draught of my letter to Foster

for your worship to see — I shall get a speedy

conveyance for my packet without difficulty —

I — that is Wilson will for me — This Wilson is

an useful kind of an animal upon occasion — he

is looking over as grave as a goose —

April 29 th 1778

Wednesday

D r Mulford called on me yesterday; but

was driven away by Q. S. P. who kept the field.