“It appears to me an age (as indeed it really is one) since we last met. I have had the intention twenty times, and the inclination as many times more, to pop in upon you at Brompton since my return from the north; but although I have frequently been in town, I have never succeeded in getting beyond the turnpike at Hyde Park, and I am now in despair of being able to do so prior to our assizes, which, as the public prints may have informed you, are fixed for the 6th inst. How do you feel disposed respecting them? This, by-the-bye, is hardly a fair mode of putting the question, I should rather have said, will your engagements admit of your being with me at that time? If you answer in the affirmative, and you are not afraid of the fcetid air of a crowded court in August, come and receive the cordial welcome of yours very sincerely,
