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Chase expresses gratitude to Lord Kenyon
Date
4-6-1824
City
London, England
Keywords
Chase's copy, England voyage, Notices, British Review, Josiah Pratt, Lord Kenyon, Dr. Gaskin, Mr. Evan
Recommended Citation
Chase, Philander, "Letter to Lord Kenyon" (1824). Philander Chase Letters. 309.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/chase_letters/309
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From the Writer to
Lord Gambier
Copy to Lord Gambier Ap. 6 24
A fair copy was taken for the printer
Dec’r 24 1841
10 Featherstone Buildings
Ap’l 6 1824
My Lord:
I take the earliest opportunity after my return to town to express to your Lordship the deep sense of gratitude which I feel for the over ruling hand of Divine Providence in the termination of the unhappy opposition to the cause which brought me to Eng’d. Feeling my unworthiness & inability to manage a controversy and trying to bear rather than retaliate evil I complied with the advice [of your] Lordship and my other friends in following the things which make for peace; and my heart o’er flows with gratitude to God, to you & to them that all things have thus far turned out for Good. No fuel having been added, the flame has spent its fury. The “notices” the review in the B. Critic and above all the anonymous “letter to a friend about Bp Chase” having had their run throughout the Kingdom have spent their force. Bishop Hobart has gone to Rome and peace once more returned. May the good God pardon protect, and bless, him.
The Rev Mr Pratt is now preparing an advertisement stating things as they now stand.* Dr Gaskin has called to see me and with him if it please God I am to dine next Thursday[.] Lord Kenyon has honoured me with an interview and expresses himself in the kindest manner towards the cause of Ohio. I have not yet had time to call on Mr Evans of Allestree with whom your Lordships letter was the means of making me acquainted in Derbyshire.
The success resulting from the visit to the north of Eng’d is considerable; but of this your Lordship will be apprised [?] & more correct channels
I should be extremely happy to hear of the health and happiness of yourself & family for which prayers are sincerely offered by
Your Lordships
Humble Friend & Faithful Serv’t
Phil’r Chase
*which pursuing the same course of peaceful endeavours I hope will be blessed