You may rest assured I shall use all my endeavors to do it as soon as may be....
"This country appears to me to be in a very bad state.

I judge from the increasing disturbances at Nottingham, and more especially from the startling murders lately committed in this city.
"A few mornings since was published an account of the murder of a family consisting of four persons, and this moment there is another account of the murder of one consisting of three persons, making the twelfth murder committed in that part of the city within three months, and not one of the murderers as yet has been discovered, although a reward of more than seven hundred pounds has been offered for the discovery.
"The inhabitants are very much alarmed, and hereafter I shall sleep with pistols at the head of my bed, although there is little to apprehend in this part of the city.

Still, as I find many of my acquaintance adopting that plan, I choose rather to be on the safe side and join with them.".