say, had no effect on me as a horror, though I would have saved
them if I could. Yours," &c.

* * * * *

LETTER 281. TO MR. MURRAY.

"Venice, June 4. 1817.

"I have received the proofs of the 'Lament of Tasso,' which makes
me hope that you have also received the reformed third Act of
Manfred, from Rome, which I sent soon after my arrival there. My
date will apprise you of my return home within these few days. For
me, I have received _none_ of your packets, except, after long
delay, the 'Tales of my Landlord,' which I before acknowledged. I
do not at all understand the _why nots_, but so it is; no Manuel,
no letters, no tooth-powder, no _extract_ from Moore's Italy
concerning Marino Faliero, no NOTHING--as a man hallooed out at one
of Burdett's elections, after a long ululatus of 'No Bastille! No
governor-ities! No--'God knows who or what;--but his _ne plus
ultra_ was, 'No nothing!'--and my receipts of your packages amount
to about his meaning. I want the extract from _Moore's_ Italy very
much, and the tooth-powder, and the magnesia; I don't care so much
about the poetry, or the letters, or Mr. Maturin's by-Jasus
tragedy. Most of the things sent by the post have come--I mean
proofs and letters; therefore send me Marino Faliero by the post,
in a letter.

"I was delighted with Rome, and was on horseback all round it many
hours daily, besides in it the rest of my time, bothering over its