MY DEAR COUSIN,—I send for your information a copy of my last letter to
the gentleman in question. ’Tis thought more wise, in consideration of
the difficulty and peril of the enterprise, that we should leave the town
in the afternoon, and by several detachments. If you would start for a
ride with the Master of Haggard and Captain Lockhart of Lee, say at three
o’clock of the afternoon, you would make some rencounters by the wayside
which might be agreeable to your political opinions. All present will be
staunch.
The Master of Haggard might extend his ride a little, and return through
the marsh and by the nuns’ house (I trust that has the proper flavour),
so as a little to diminish the effect of separation.—I remain, your
affectionate cousin to command,