I suppose you have a score of new works, all of which I hope to see flourishing, with a hecatomb of reviews.
My
works are likely to have a powerful effect with a vengeance, as I hear of divers angry people, whom it is proper I should shoot at, by way of satisfaction. Be it so, the same impulse which made "Otho a warrior" will make me one also. My domestic affairs being moreover considerably deranged, my appetite for travelling pretty well satiated with my late peregrinations, my various hopes in this world almost extinct, and not very brilliant in the next, I trust I shall go through the process with a creditable
sang froid
and not disgrace a line of cut-throat ancestors.
regret in one of your letters to hear you talk of domestic embarrassments
, indeed I am at present very well calculated to sympathise with you on that point. I suppose I must take to dram-drinking as a
succedaneum