heir catechisms!

"I have not seen Lady Noel's death announced in Galignani.--How is
that?"

[Footnote 74: The preceding letter came enclosed in this.]

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LETTER 480. TO MR. MOORE.

"Pisa, February 28. 1822.

"I begin to think that the packet (a heavy one) of five acts of
'Werner,' &c. can hardly have reached you, for your letter of last
week (which I answered) did not allude to it, and yet I insured it
at the post-office here.

"I have no direct news from England, except on the Noel business,
which is proceeding quietly, as I have appointed a gentleman (Sir
F. Burdett) for my arbitrator. They, too, have said that they will
recall the _lawyer_ whom _they_ had chosen, and will name a
gentleman too. This is better, as the arrangement of the estates
and of Lady B.'s allowance will thus be settled without quibbling.
My lawyers are taking out a licence for the name and arms, which it
seems I am to endue.

"By another, and indirect, quarter, I hear that 'Cain' has been
pirated, and that the Chancellor has refused to give Murray any
redress. Also, that G.R. (_your_ friend 'Ben') has expressed great
personal indignation at the said poem. All this is curious enough,
I think,--after allowing Priestley, Hume, and Gibbon, and
Bolingbroke, and Voltaire to be published, without depriving the
booksellers of their rights. I heard from Rome a day or two ago,
and, with what truth I know not, that * * *.

"Yours," &c.

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LETTER 481. TO MR. MOORE.

"Pisa, March 1. 1822.

"As I still have no news of my 'Werner,' &c. packet, sent to you on
the 29th of January, I continue to bore you (for the fifth time, I
believe) to know whether it has not miscarried. As it was fairly
copied out, it will be vexatious if it be lost. Indeed, I insured
it at the post-office to make them take more care, and directed it
regularly to you at Paris.

"In the impartial Galignani I perceive an extract from Blackwood's
Magazine, in which it is said that there are people who have
discovered that you and I are no poets. With regard to one of us, I
know that this north-west passage to _my_ magnetic pole had been
long discovered by some sages, and I leave them the full benefit of
their penetra