| Description | Includes references to Dick having sailed a fortnight ago for Lisbon; having heard nothing from Cap[tain] Simcoe, whom he believes has sailed from Plym[outh] when his letter got there; Hardwick being out of his employment of Purser and Groves having told Thompson that it is not in the Capt[ain's] power to turn out or put in a Purser, the Lords of the Admiralty keeping that power; Major Wilkinson; there being no difficulty with Lewis but being unsure how to deal with "that rascal Read", the newspapers saying that he has is appointed Consul of some place in Barbary, taking him further out of reach; asking Grimston to get a letter to Mason the poet who he thinks is secretary to Lord Holderness and get him to do Justice, it being a shame for a public Minister to demur payment to what he has acknowledged before witnesses; being sorry for poor Col[onel] de Garde and that Grimston will loose £200 and being out of the way for mortgages, them being easier to come by in the country |