and clapt sentinels at the doors. To-morrow the body is to be
moved. The town is in the greatest confusion, as you may suppose.

"You are to know that, if I had not had the body moved, they would
have left him there till morning in the street, for fear of
consequences. I would not choose to let even a dog die in such a
manner, without succour--and, as for consequences, I care for none
in a duty. Yours, &c.

"P.S. The lieutenant on duty by the body is smoking his pipe with
great composure.--A queer people this."

* * * * *

LETTER 403. TO MR. MOORE.

"Ravenna, Dec. 25. 1820.

"You will or ought to have received the packet and letters which I
remitted to your address a fortnight ago (or it may be more days),
and I shall be glad of an answer, as, in these times and places,
packets per post are in some risk of not reaching their
destination.

"I have been thinking of a project for you and me, in case we both
get to London again, which (if a Neapolitan war don't suscitate)
may be calculated as possible for one of us about the spring of
1821. I presume that you, too, will be back by that time, or never;
but on that you will give me some index. The project, then, is for
you and me to set up jointly a _newspaper_--nothing more nor