Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing (CMSW) - www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/cmsw/ Document : 316 Title: Letter from James Wauchope to John Campbell Author(s): Wauchope, James Edin St And SqrMay 17th 1785 Dear Campbell I received yoru letter dated 9th in which you told me that you was just going down to Mr Chauvets so I suppose by the time you get this, you will be safely landed there, & I hope you will find it as agreable, as you did McFarlans last year. I am surprised that in your last letter you do no mention if you had an agreable journey up, or how you liked your Companion; I suppos (at least from the description I got of him) you & he would not be cold in the Chaise together. I fancy you would know before you left this that Lord Dalhousie meant to take a journey, for his health he set out last week for Buxton, & Lady Dalhousie has had very good accounts of him since. The only Scotch news I have to tell you is, that Profeſsor Ferguson has resigned the Moral philosophy claſs, & that Dugald Steurt has accepted it & that Playfair is to be Profeſsor of Mathematics. I need not pretend to give you any other news as you are quite in the Political world. Every person here is alarmed with the tax upon Maid servants, as also that Bill for changing the number of the judges in the Court of Seſsion, because it breaks the Articles of the Union which I do not pretend to understand, but there is a letter in the Newspapers here from James Boswell who is in London telling us that he will let us know from time to time what you are to do concerning that matter. I think [¿] better be quiet. I saw Dundas [¿] he is continuing to do very well. I wish you may be able to read a word of this for there is not a pen here that will write & it is just upon Nine which is the hour the post goes away so I am rather hurried like you. I am Dear Campbell yours sincerely James Wanchope P.S have you been in the House of Commons since you [¿]