Thomas Beddoes to Davies Giddy, 3 May 1805
3 May 1805
Dear Giddy
Mrs B being unwell & not up, I had better acknowledge the receipt of the lottery ticket – By which I hope we will shortly have the grace to remit to you –
Do not all these so acrimonious & eagerly read debates tend to weaken authority & bring about internal disorders, if any exciting causes shd occur? – I have happened to ascertain that in several manufactures the men have London papers & discuss Lord Melville as warmly as their superiors – For my part, I do not see any chance of a change if all parties live – & if a change occurs, the administration must be weaker & the new minister, if he make peace, sacrifices himself –. And it seems to require too much faith to think that Pitt can carry the country through a war without an object, low as his character must appear to the french & all Europe as a statesman; & tarnished as it is in all respects – I cannot see how this investigation by a committee of his naming is to reestablish his purity in the public eye –
Be so good as drop the inclosed in the 2d post
Yrs truly
Thomas Beddoes
Address: Davies Giddy Esq MP / Boyle Street
Endorsement: Doctor Beddoes / 1805 / May the 3d
Postmark: BRISTOL / MAY 3 / 1805
MS: Cornish Archives DG 43/20