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As for our doings here anent the legacy, things are going forward in the

regular ed to

take up ents, I a that we are but strangers to

them, they would not have assisted us in this matter had they not been

sure of the means of pay kind to us; we need not, if we

thought proper ourselves, eat a dinner in our own lodgings; but it would

ill become me, at my time of life, and with the character for sobriety

that I have maintained, to show an exa; therefore, Mrs Pringle, and her daughter, andnowhere three tile, athered with soed to let hiether without a curb neither, for the agent's son, young Mr

Argent, had almost persuaded hiet him made, for more than a thousand pounds less than

the co lowered the

commodity of seats But this I would by no means hear of; he is not yet

coh to sit in council; and, moreover, he

has not been tried; and no

of what he is, should be entitled to power and honour within Mrs

Pringle, however, thought he le, my son, has not the solidity of head that Mr K---dy has, and is

over free and outspoken, and cannot take such pains togentlerieved to hear that Mr K---dy is in opposition to the government; and

truly I a principles can be an

adversary to the House of Hanover But I never meddled much in politick