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25 UN DEBAT : LES MENTALITES COLLECTIYES 615-

acąuaintance I felt morę than common esteem, & betwecn whom & myself_r the greater intimacy we had an opportunity of cultivating during a short but pleasant tour together, has I trust eEtablish’d a friendship which wili subsist during our lives to our mutual satisfaction.

You are perfectly right in observing that my lot has been well cast in this life, hitherto every thing has succeeded completely to my wish, morę so probably than if I had had Myself the ordering of Events, Providence has disposed everything for the best & after protectiDg me through a few risks & many difficulties, hab placed me here precisely in the situation to which I had been looking forward for many years. Ali that remains for me to do is to endeavour to merit my good Fortune & guard as far as possible against any reverse.

In the spring we purpose coming to town, I shall then be happy to present you my wife, whom (I do not hesitate to say) you will find deserv-ing of the attachment I borę her for six years. Bye the bye dont quiz this last sentence nor criticise me. — I am much obliged to you for remem-bering the Greek & Turkish Musie, when next we meet I will procure it to be copied. Foresti’s debt to me was paid in the summer by Messrs. Smith Barbe & Marten America Sąuare. I did not think it prudent to write to him not knowing what his situation might be & whether his letters were or were not opened, as in the former case the French might have taken advantage of it somehow or other, as they have done with English letters in Switzerland. Let me know where he is when next you write. I have not heard a single word from Smith to whom I sent a notę Eome months ago to congratulate him on his eonnection with the Corn-cutter. Hope, I am glad to say, is ąuite a different man sinee his return. The climate of England has operated wonderfully in favour of his health & spirits neither of whieh were to be boasted of during his stay at Con-stantinople. Have you attended the Ottomans? Or has that scheme depart-ed this life. I fear there exist very few Members of that illustrious society & of those few still fewer in England. Adieu, my dear Hawkins, believe me Very Sincerely

Yr. Affect^e Fi-iend,

[signed] Bandle Wilbraham