G.[F9] This refers to Dr.Wordsworth's volume on the authorship of _Icon Basilike_.

London, 1824.
I have no excuse, but that at that time both my body and my memory were run off their legs.

I am very glad you thought the answer[90] appeared to you triumphant, for it had struck me as in the main point, knowledge of the subject, and spirit in the writing, and accuracy in the logic, as one of the best controversial tracts I ever had.
I am glad you have been so busy; I wish I could say so much of myself.

I have written this last month, however, about 600 verses, with tolerable success.
Many thanks for the review: your article is excellent.

I only wish that you had said more of the deserts of government in respect to Ireland; since I do sincerely believe that no government in Europe has shown better dispositions to its subjects than the English have done to the Irish, and that no country has improved so much during the same period.
You have adverted to this part of the subject, but not spoken so forcibly as I could have wished.