However I am in great hopes that the good people of England will derive no small degree of moral embellishment from their pure admiration of the illustrious General B----, who, it is said, for drinking and gaming has no equal.
BRISTOL, September 9, 1814.
MY DEAR PARENTS,--Your kind letters of June last I have received, and return you a thousand thanks for them.

They have relieved me from a painful state of anxiety with respect to my future prospects.

I cannot feel too thankful for such kind parents who have universally shown so much indulgence to me.

Accept my gratitude and love; they are all I can give.
You allow me to stay in Europe another year.

Your letters are not in answer to some I have subsequently sent requesting leave to reside in Paris.