"P.S. Morlands have not yet written to my bankers apprising the payment of your balances: pray desire them to do so.
"Ask them about the previous thousand—of which I know 500 came from Hanson's—and make out the other 500—that is, whence it came."
LETTER 301. TO MR. MURRAY.
"Venice, November 15. 1817.
"Mr. Kinnaird has probably returned to England by this time, and will have conveyed to you any tidings you may wish to have of us and ours. I have come back to Venice for the winter. Mr. Hobhouse will probably set off in December, but what day or week I know not. He is my opposite neighbour at present.
"I wrote yesterday in some perplexity, and no very good humour, to Mr. Kinnaird, to inform me about Newstead and the Hansons, of which and whom I hear nothing since his departure from this place, except in a few unintelligible words from an unintelligible woman.
"I am as sorry to hear of Dr. Polidori's accident as one can be for a person for whom one has a dislike, and something of contempt. When he gets well, tell me, and how he gets on in the sick line. Poor fellow! how came he to fix there?
"I fear the Doctor's skill at Norwich
Will hardly salt the Doctor's porridge.
Methought he was going to the Brazils to give the Portuguese physic (of which they are fond to desperation) with the Danish consul.