1820.] BETWEEN LAWYER AND TRUSTEE. 5 cannot make it at all convenient to come to England for the present. I am truly pleased to hear that there is a prospect of terminating the Rochdale Business, in one way or the other pray see it out. It has been hitherto a dead loss of time and expences, but may I suppose pay in the long run; and if you could for once be a little quicker about that, or anything else, it would be a great gain to me and no loss to you, as our final Settlement naturally will depend in some measure upon the result. If the claim could be adjusted, and the whole brought to the hammer, I could clear every thing, and know what I really possess. Pray write to me (direct to Ravenna). I do not feel justified in the present state of the funds, and on your statement, of urging the fulfilment of the Blessington Mortgage, and yet I feel sorry that it does not seem feasible. At any rate, see Mr. Kinnaird upon it and come to some decision. Let me hear about Rochdale. Yours ever truly, BYRON. P.S.-Advance old Joe Murray whatever may be necessary and proper, and it will be deducted from my Bankers acc! 789.-To John Murray. Ravenna, April 9, 1820. DE S,-In the name of all the devils in-the printing office, why don't you write to acknowledge the receipt of the second, third, and fourth packets, viz. the Pulci-translation and original, the Danticles, the Observations on, etc.? You forget that you keep me in hot water till I know whether they are arrived, or if I must have the bore of recopying. I send you "a Song of Triumph" by W. Botherby, Esq, price sixpence, on the Election of J. C. H. Esqre for Westminster (not for publication); Would you go to the House by the true gate, And Newgate will send you to Parliament. Have you gotten the cream of translations, Francesca of Rimini, from the Inferno? Why, I have sent you a warehouse of trash within the last month, and you have no sort of feeling about you: a pastry-cook would have had twice the gratitude, and thanked me at least for the quantity. To make the letter heavier, I enclose you the Cardinal Legate's (one Campeius) circular for his Conversazione this evening: it is the anniversary of the Pope's tiaration, and all polite Christians, even of the Lutheran creed, must go and be civil. And there will be a Circle, and a Faro-table, (for shillings, that is-they don't allow high play) and all the beauty, nobility, and Sanctity of Ravenna present. The Cardinal himself is a very good-natured little fellow, Bishop of Imola and Legate here, a devout believer in all the doctrines of the Church. He has kept his housekeeper these forty years, for his carnal recreation; but is reckoned a pious man, and a moral liver. I am not quite sure that I won't be among you this autumn, for I find that business don't go on-what with trustees and Lawyers-as it should do, "with all "deliberate speed." They differ about investments in Ireland. Between the devil and deep Sea, Between the Lawyer and Trustee, |