"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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