Chapter 56

"Oct. 19. 1812.

"Many thanks, but I _must_ pay the _damage_, and will thank you to tell me the amount for the engraving. I think the 'Rejected Addresses' by far the best thing of the kind since the Rolliad, and wish _you_ had published them. Tell the author 'I forgive him, were he twenty times over a satirist;' and think his imitations not at all inferior to the famous ones of Hawkins Browne. He must be a man of very lively wit, and less scurrilous than wits often are: altogether, I very much admire the performance, and wish it all success. The _Satirist_ has taken a new tone, as you will see: we have now, I think, finished with Childe Harold's critics. I have in _hand_ a _Satire_ on _Waltzing,_ which you must publish anonymously: it is not long, not quite two hundred lines, but will make a very small boarded pamphlet. In a few days you shall have it.

"P.S.--The editor of the _Satirist_ ought to be thanked for his revocation; it is done handsomely, after five years' warfare."

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