All here give you the best old-fashioned wishes of
the season; and believe me, with the greatest truth and regard,
My dear Sir,
Your most faithful and obliged humble servant,
EDMUND BURKE.
BEACONSFIELD, New year's Day, 1780.
I am frightened at the trouble I give you and our friends; but I
recollect that you are mostly lawyers, and habituated to read long,
tiresome papers--and, where your friendship is concerned, without a fee;
I am sure, too, that you will not act the lawyer in scrutinizing too
minutely every expression which my haste may make me use. I forgot to
mention my friend O'Hara, and others; but you will communicate it as you
please.
FOOTNOTES:
[14] Mr. Thomas Burgh, of Old Town, was a member of the House of Commons
in Ireland.--It appears from a letter written by this gentleman to Mr.
Burke, December 24, 1779, and to which the following is an answer, that
the part Mr. Burke had taken in the discussion which the affairs of
Ireland had undergone in the preceding sessions of Parliament in England
had been grossly misrepresented and much censured in Ireland.
[15] This intention was communicated to Mr. Burke in a letter from Mr.
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