Will you tell Dr. Butler that I have taken the treasure of a servant, Friese, the native of Prussia Proper, into my service from his recommendation? He has been all among the Worshippers of Fire in Persia, and has seen Persepolis and all that.
Hobhouse has made woundy preparations for a book on his return; 100 pens, two gallons of Japan Ink, and several volumes of best blank, is no bad provision for a discerning public. I have laid down my pen, but have promised to contribute a chapter on the state of morals, and a further treatise on the same to be intituled "...,
Simplified,... or Proved to be Praiseworthy from Ancient Authors and Modern Practice.
"
Hobhouse further hopes to indemnify himself in Turkey for a life of exemplary chastity at home. Pray buy his
Missellingany
, as the Printer's Devil calls it. I suppose it is in print by this time. Providence has interposed in our favour with a fair wind to carry us out of its reach, or he would have hired a Faqui to translate it into the Turcoman lingo.
"[The] cock is crowing,
I must be going,
And can no more."
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