If on so slight a knowledge of the play I could venture to erase either of the words you set before me, I fear it would be _Yes_, but I feel cruel and wicked in saying so.

I hope you got your dinner in comfort when you got rid of me and that gentle pyramid [Belzoni].
Yours truly, B.D.
Mr.Southey was an indefatigable and elaborate correspondent, and, as his letters have already been published, it is not necessary to quote them.

He rarely wrote to Mr.Gifford, who cut down his articles, and, as Southey insisted, generally emasculated them by omitting the best portions.

Two extracts may be given from those written to Mr.Murray in 1820, which do not seem yet to have been given to the world, the first in reference to a proposed Life of Warren Hastings: "It appears to me that the proper plan will be to publish a selection from Warren Hastings's papers and correspondence, accompanying it with his Life.

That Life requires a compendious view of our Indian history down to the time of his administration, and in its progress it embraces the preservation of our Indian empire and the establishment of the existing system.