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Bushy House.

August 10th 1824.

Late at Night.

My Dear Lord,

Yours of 5th instant has on every account given me great satisfaction. I rejoice that the jail at Naas is to be enlarged and the Spring Assizes are to continue there. Your Lordship is so good and thorough an Irishman, I wish all your projects may succeed except where the Orange faction is concerned.

I am broken hearted on the subject of the West Indies and so must be Tom Smith if he has any common sense left. But I trust