Whenever you send a 'Nazione' newspaper through him, it never reaches us, though we receive our 'Monitore' through him regularly.

Why?
Because in his position he is allowed to have newspapers for his own use.

He takes in for himself no 'Monitore,' so ours goes to his account, but he does take in a 'Nazione,' therefore ours is seized, as being plainly for other hands than his own licensed ones.
I am very much grieved about this loss of your letter and its contents.
First, there's my fear lest harm should come of this, and then there's my own personal _mulcting_ of what would have been of such deep interest to me.

I am 'revelling'?
See how little.
Robert wrote in a playful vein to Kate, and you must not and will not care for that.

He had understood from your letter that you and the majority had all, like the 'Athenaeum,' understood the 'Curse for a Nation' to be directed against England.