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A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Letters 1836
Sydney Smith to Sir George Philips, 11 January 1836
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Chapter III
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Chapter V
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Combe Florey, Jan. 11th, 1836.
My dear Philips,

I hope you have escaped gout this winter; it is in vain to hope you have not deserved it. I have had none, and deserve none.

I have no doubt but that this Corporation Bill will produce excellent effects after the first year or two. The destruction of four or five hundred jobbing monopolies must carry with it very important improvements. There are some excellent passages in O’Connell’s last letter to Burdett, where he praises the justice and impartiality of this Government in the administration of Irish affairs.

Whishaw retires from his office, and is to live between the two Romillys, or, as they call them, Romulus and Remus; I am sincerely glad of this arrangement. I sent you yesterday, through George, a printed list of my articles in the Edinburgh Review; they may make you laugh on a rainy day.

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The bargain for my house is nearly finished. The lawyers discovered some flaw in the title about the time of the Norman Conquest; but, thinking the parties must have disappeared in the quarrels of York and Lancaster, I waived the objection. Not having your cheerfulness, the country ennuies me at this season of the year; and I have a large house and no children in it. I have not the slightest belief in the going out of the Ministry; I should as soon think of Drummond’s white light going out.

W—— left behind him £100,000, with the following laconic account how he had acquired it by different diseases:—“Auruni catharticum, £20,000; aurum diureticum, £10,000; aurum podagrosum, £30,000; aurum apoplecticum, £20,000; aurum senile et nervorum, £10,000.” But for the truth of this anecdote I vouch not.

I think we must adopt a daughter.

Sydney Smith.