Dear Sir

Downing Jan^y. 29^th 1794

Old men are apt to be peevish: but we must not quarrel. the ballance is in y^r favor, so let [...]s eternally forget the past. At length I have found the long lost part of the arctic zoology,¹ which my son Tom took up last week; Be pleased to send for it to M^rs Pennant's upper Grosvenour street.

I pity you for relinquishing any one amusement. I cannot follow y^r example but shall always keep something in hand to my last moment. our checks in the military operations, renders, it very necessary to re-animate our countrymen. for that purpose I have revived the bounties for Flintshire seamen for so large a [...]sum was subscribed in this part of the county that much money remained in hand. which it would be wrong to [...] leave useless.² you will call me an egotist (I) but true it is that old age 68 sets most things in motion here. on mention of politics I must tell you that Fletcher editor At Chester of the most virulent paper in Britain was this week seized & is I hope by this time safe in Newgate. a place not new to him.³

I thank you greatly for the Godshill & Newport Tombs.⁴ Had Princess Elizabeth died in France her monument w^d have been the maws of Kites.

I do believe that moses has not done a single article in y^r quadruped part of arctic zoology. he has not not even had the lest sense of gratitude. m^r Chiswel employs him. in the spring he gave him 10^£ by way of encouragement; & I fear he will have cause to complain of him. I [...] made long ago a codicill to my will leaving 200^£ in trust for [...] Moses's children.⁵ his boy a fine child is fit to be put out & I w^d advance what is reasonable: but I cannot get him to resolve on anything.

I am much obliged to you for y^r kind congratulations on my son's nuptials. he brought home a most beautiful woman: but far more so in her mind. They left me last week to take possession of their pretty house near Wrexham.

I hope miss Bulls⁶ enjoy their health.

my best wishes & complim^ts attend them. Every good thing attend you. I am with true regard
Dear Sir
faithfully y^rs

Tho. Pennant.

I beg my kindest remembrances to M^r Storer.

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Editorial notes

1. This is unlikely to refer to the volume of Arctic zoology discussed by Bull in 1174, since that is touched upon later in this letter.
2. Forty-six men from Flintshire joined the navy in 1793, and the bounty scheme was renewed for 1794. Evans, ‘The Flintshire Loyalist Association', 54–68, esp. 60.
3. John Fletcher was the owner rather than the editor of the Chester Chronicle. William Cowdroy took the role of editor on the paper from 1785. Löffler, Welsh Responses to the French Revolution, pp. 137–71. No evidence has been found of the apprehension of Fletcher suggested here.
4. See 1174 for a reference to 'two drawings of the Princess Elizabeth's Coffin'. Pennant writes of Newport church in From Dover to the Isle of Wight (1801), where he describes the tomb of Sir Edward Horsey (1582), at pp. 158–9.
5. Moses Griffith, junior, and Margaret Griffith.
6. Elizabeth and Catherine Bull.