“Dear Sir,—I have been rambling in Buckinghamshire; where, on January 26, I kept my birth-day, in a company of sound constitutional Whigs. Yesterday, on reaching Oxford, I had the pleasure of receiving your letter, which my daughter had forwarded from Hatton. Accept my best thanks for the present of your excellent book. I read it with eagerness. It is a most masterly performance; and will produce all the good effect you wish for among good men. But of peace itself I begin to despair, &c.—S. P.”
