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 <p style="text-align:right;">Parkgate Sep<sup>t</sup>. 17<sup>th</sup> 1792</p>
 My dear H
-I rejoice to find by your kind & chearful letter that you entertain hopes upon the subject of French Liberty upon which I had begun to despair, but I see only the Star which I conclude is an aristocratical paper, therefore I trust all the calamities it represents are not to be depended upon yet I lamented the destruction of two names so illustrious as that of Mons<sup>ir</sup> Rochefaucoult [sp?] & <strike>illeg</strike> Madame de Lambert, whatever may be their offences. I wish I could obtain a faithful account - but truth which is difficult of access in most situations is particularly so in politics - therefore in the present wretched state of things I try to believe as little as possible.
+I rejoice to find by your kind & chearful letter that you entertain hopes upon the subject of French Liberty upon which I had begun to despair, but I see only the St<u>a</u>r which I conclude is an aristocratical paper, therefore I trust all the calamities it represents are not to be depended upon yet I lamented the destruction of two names so illustrious as that of Mons<sup>ir</sup> Rochefaucoult [sp?] & <strike>illeg</strike> Madame de Lambert, whatever may be their offences. I wish I could obtain a faithful account - but truth which is difficult of access in most situations is particularly so in politics - therefore in the present wretched state of things I try to believe as little as possible.
 I have continued to bathe of late without

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Parkgate Sep^t. 17^th 1792

My dear H

I rejoice to find by your kind & chearful letter that you entertain hopes upon the subject of French Liberty upon which I had begun to despair, but I see only the Star which I conclude is an aristocratical paper, therefore I trust all the calamities it represents are not to be depended upon yet I lamented the destruction of two names so illustrious as that of Mons^ir Rochefaucoult [sp?] & ~~illeg~~ Madame de Lambert, whatever may be their offences. I wish I could obtain a faithful account - but truth which is difficult of access in most situations is particularly so in politics - therefore in the present wretched state of things I try to believe as little as possible.

I have continued to bathe of late without