"Ravenna, Sept. 14. 1820.
"What! not a line? Well, have it your own way.
"I wish you would inform Perry, that his stupid paragraph is the
cause of all my newspapers being stopped in Paris. The fools
believe me in your infernal country, and have not sent on their
gazettes, so that I know nothing of your beastly trial of the
Queen.
"I cannot avail myself of Mr. Gifford's remarks, because I have
received none, except on the first act. Yours, &c.
"P.S. Do, pray, beg the editors of papers to say any thing
blackguard they please; but not to put me amongst their arrivals.
They do me more mischief by such nonsense than all their abuse can
do."
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