If I should happi-
ly pick up any Crumbs of Comfort, be sure they
shall be sent. Peggie’s Letter, which I mention-
ed to you, was a Family-Affair, concerning an
upper Servant, which she wonted.

The state of publickpublic Credit in your Part
of the World appears to be not a little alarm-
ing. Indeed, Things on every Side seem to be
tending to Dissolution. It may with equal
Justice &and Sorrow be said – Oh! Tempora!
Oh! Mores!

The opposition doth not seem to abate at
all of its Vigour, &and God only knows to what
lengths it may be carried; But surely such
Boldness, I should say, Impudence &and Scurrility
in Writing were never heard or thought of.
Speaking of these things, perhaps, it may
make you smile, when I tell you, Cousin
Peggie has the Curiosity to see the publickpublic
Papers, &and has them accordingly sent to her;
even that superlatively scurrilous &and abusive
paper, called the Whisperer. ‘TisIt is amazing,
the Government should suffer these facti-
ous papers to come abroad, which are the 1945 (1945)
grossest Outrage against all Order, Decency &and
Decorum, a Scandal &and Reproach to Civil Socie-
ty: But this Evil hath been fostering many Years.”