tted_ the Tears in several of
the copies. I have made him replace them, and am very wroth with
his qualms,--'as the wine is poured out, let it be drunk to the
dregs.'"

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TO MR. MURRAY.

"February 10. 1814.

"I am much better, and indeed quite well, this morning. I have
received _two_, but I presume there are more of the _Ana_,
subsequently, and also something previous, to which the Morning
Chronicle replied. You also mentioned a parody on the _Skull_. I
wish to see them all, because there may be things that require
notice either by pen or person.

"Yours, &c.

"You need not trouble yourself to answer this; but send me the
things when you get them."

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TO MR. MURRAY.

"February 12. 1814.

"If you have copies of the 'Intercepted Letters,' Lady Holland
would be glad of a volume; and when you have served others, have
the goodness to think of your humble servant.

"You have played the devil by that injudicious _suppression_, which
you did totally without my consent. Some of the papers have exactly
said what might be expected. Now I _do_ not, and _will_ not be
supposed to shrink, although myself and every thing belonging to me
were to perish with my memory. Yours, &c. BN.

"P.S. Pray attend to what I stated yesterday on _technical_
topics."

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LETTER 163. TO MR. MURRAY.

"Monday, February 14. 1814.

"Before I left town yesterday, I wrote you a note, which I presume
you received. I have heard so many different accounts of _your_
proceedings, or rather of those of others towards _you_, in
consequence of the publication of these everlasting lines, that I
am anxious to hear from yourself the real state of the case.
Whatever responsibility, obloquy, or effect is to arise from the
publication, should surely _not_ fall upon you in any degree; and I
can have no objection to your stating, as distinctly and publicly
as you please, _your_ unwillingness to publish them, and my own
obstinacy upon the subject. Take any course you please to vindicate
_yourself_, but leave me to fight my own way; and, as I before
said, do not _compromise_ me by any thing which may look like
_shrinking_ on my part; as for your own,