Addressed to "The Revd. Walter Bagot."
With seal.
Docketed.
Part of a large collection of letters from and related to William Cowper; please see collection record for MA 86-87 for more information.
Thanking him for his help "in the affair of [his] friend [James] Hurdis," who succeeded in gaining the poetry-professorship at Oxford; discussing "this conflagration by which all Europe suffers at present" [the French Revolution], and noting that England seems to have made "the same mistake ... as in the American business. We then flattered ourselves that the colonies would prove an easy conquest, and when all the neighbour nations arm'd themselves against France, we imagined I believe that she too would be presently vanquish'd. But we begin already to be undeceived, and God only knows to what a degree we may find we have erred, at the conclusion."