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Peal accession no. 11085b. Includes a transcript and a biographical clipping.
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 D. Gaol May 37th. 1801

Dear Sir

This day I recd yours of April 29th conveying the
enclosed. What the mistake may be, or the cause of the delay,
I know not; & I mention it by way of justification for myself,
who am not apt to be tardy in acknowledging such kind expres—
sions, as your favour contains. I leave this gaol on Friday
morng & hope to arrive at Hackney on the Saturday sennight fol—
lowing. We have had a great deal of mishap & death in our family;
one of my boys is ill now, but, we hope, getting well; nor have
I been wholly free from indisposition myself. Mrs P. & your fame
ily, I trust, are in health. When Pitt fought his duel, tOO many
wisht, amons whom you will recollect one, his demolition by
his antagonist! Yet, you see, the affair has been ordered much
better by the great superintendant of the universe. Then he
would have been sanctified as a martyr; now he is equally dia
vested of his iniquitous power, & is gradually sinking into ob~
livion with his favourers, & neglect from all mankind. I remain
ever yours very sincerely

Gilbert Wakefield
Mr. Phillips, Bookseller,
No- 71. St. Paul's Church Yard
London.

 

 

Gilbert Wahefield (1736~1801), English classical scholar and pole
itician, inveterate enemv of William Pitt and Richard Person, died

four months after the date of this letter, which was written from
Dorchester jail where he had keen imprisoned for two years after
conviction for seditious libel. While in prison he corresgonded
on classical subjects with Charles James TMy“. His light—hearted
criticism of Person's Hequgg, was avenged by the latter's famous
toast:"Gilbert Wakefield; what's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba?"

(Collection of Captain F. L. Pleadwell)