My dear Miss Walker Did people in 1800 think as much about war as we do? In fact I think they had a respite then, while the Peace of Amiens prevailed. I knew the old Dean of Winchester who had been at a levee of the First Consul in that year with Sir James Mackintosh. I made my niece look at him (the Dean) he was 90, by way of making a link

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