"I will pay (though with the sincerest reluctance) my remaining creditors, and every man of law, by instalments from the award of the arbitrators.
"I recommend to you the notice in Mr. Hanson's letter, on the demands of moneys for the Rochdale tolls.
"Above all, I recommend my interests to your honourable worship.
"Recollect, too, that I expect some moneys for the various MSS. (no matter what); and, in short, 'Rem quocunque modo, Rem!'—the noble feeling of cupidity grows upon us with our years.
"Yours ever," &c.
LETTER 477. TO MR. MURRAY.
"Pisa, February 8. 1822.
"Attacks upon me were to be expected, but I perceive one upon you in the papers, which I confess that I did not expect. How, or in what manner, you can be considered responsible for what I publish, I am at a loss to conceive.