Do not fail to return my best thanks to the lady to whom I am obliged for the elegant and accurate drawing of Broughton Church.  I should have written to thank her and you for it immediately, but I foresaw that I should have occasion to write to you on this or other business.

All here desire their best remembrances; and believe me (in great haste, for I have several other letters to write on the same subject), affectionately yours,

W. WORDSWORTH.[59]

[58] ‘Quique sui memores alios fecere merendo.’ Aen. vi. 664.

[59] Memoirs, i. 386-8.

34. The Convention of Cintra:  the Roman Catholics.

TO THE SAME.

Workington, April 8. 1809.

MY DEAR WRANGHAM,

You will think I am afraid that I have used you ill in not replying sooner to your last letter; particularly as you were desirous to be informed in what newspaper my Pamphlet was printing.  I should not have failed to give you immediately any information upon this subject which could be of use; but in fact, though I began to publish in a newspaper, viz. the ’Courier, an accidental loss of two or three sheets of the manuscript prevented me from going on in that mode of publication after two sections had appeared.  The Pamphlet will be out in less than a fortnight, entitled, at full length, ’Concerning the relations of Great Britain, Spain, and Portugal, to each other, and to the common enemy at this crisis, and specifically as affected by the Convention of Cintra; the whole brought to the test of those principles by which alone the independence and freedom of nations can be preserved or recovered.’  This is less a Title than a Table of Contents.  I give it you at full length in order that you may set your fancy at work (if you have no better employment for it) upon what the Pamphlet may contain.  I sent off the last sheets only a day or two since, else I should have written to you sooner; it having been my intention to pay my debt to you the moment I had discharged this debt to my country.  What I have written has been done according to the best light of my conscience:  it is indeed very imperfect, and will, I fear, be little read; but if it is read, cannot, I hope, fail of doing some good; though I am aware it will create me a world of enemies, and call forth the old yell of Jacobinism.  I have not sent it to any personal friends as such, therefore I have made no exception in your case.  I have ordered it to be sent to two, the Spanish and Portuguese Ambassadors, and three or four other public men and Members of Parliament, but to nobody of my friends and relations.  It is printed with my name, and, I believe, will be published by Longman....  I am very happy that you have not been inattentive to my suggestion on the subject of Topography.  When I ventured to recommend the pursuit to you, I did not for a moment suppose that it was to interfere with your appropriate duties as a parish priest; far