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thousand  things  to  admire.  Your  sympathy  with  the  great
cause  is  every  where  energetically  and  feelingly  expressed.  What
fine  fellows  were  Alvarez  and  Albuquerque ;  and  how  deeply  in-
teresting the  siege  of  Gerona  !

I  have  not  yet  mentioned  clear  Sir  George  Beaumont.*  His
illness  was  not  long ;  and  he  was  prepared  by  habitually  think-
ing on  his  latter  end.  But  it  is  impossible  not  to  grieve  for
ourselves,  for  his  loss  cannot  be  supplied.  Let  dear  Edith  stay
as  long  as  you  can ;  and  when  she  must  go,  pray  come  for  her,
and  stay  a  few  days  with  us.      Farewell.
Ever  most  affectionately  yours,

W.  W .t

43.    Of  the  Writings  of  Souihey.
LETTER  TO  G.  HUNTLY  GORDON,  ESQ.
Ryclal  Mount,  May  14.  1829.
Mr.  Southey  means  to  present  me  (as  usual)  his  '  Colloquies,'
&c.  There  is,  perhaps,  not  a  page  of  them  that  he  did  not
read  me  in  ms.  ;  and  several  of  the  Dialogues  are  upon  subjects
wThich  we  have  often  discussed.  I  am  greatly  interested  with
much  of  the  book ;  but  upon  its  effect  as  a  whole  I  can  yet  form
no  opinion,  as  it  was  read  to  me  as  it  happened  to  be  written.
