Letter – Diana Beaumont to John Erasmus Blackett – 19 Sep 1795

								Bretton Sept 19th 1795

Dear Sir

      I was favor’d with your Letter last Night & Col: Beaumont & myself are glad to find you are in hopes of raising the price of Lead to 17 – 10 – 0 pr Fodr & that you are endeavouring to get a quantity down to Blaydon before the Roads break up; Mr Bill & Mr Straker will have an unpleasant task in settling the Accounts &c of Mr Forster; I hope Allanheads will be better conducted when it is under the control of Mr Crawhall; Col: Beaumont set off this Morning for London, he has more travelling than a Kings Messenger, it is only ten Days since he returned from Town, I am under very considerable anxiety on his Account, & am now in readiness to follow him to Town. Mr Collingwood is at Cannon Hall, he appears amused, tho’ not very well pleased with the Old Admirals thoughts of Matrimony, I understand he offer’d 800£ per Ann Settlement & said if more was required he was ready to settle 1000£ per Ann, & to shew how disinterested his regard was he asked not for the Lady’s Fortune, I have proposed several Ladies to Mr Collingwood as his Relation Admiral Rodham is shewing him so good an Example; -

The Weather here is uncommonly favourable for the Harvest & the Crops are very abundant, Many of our principal Farmers say they have not had so good a prospect of many Years, I hope this will make the Monopolizers of Grain suffer very Materially, one Person at Wakefield is expected to lose a thousand Pounds by what he intended to have made four Thousand, it is to be lamented those People were not discovered & severely punished; - Mr & Mrs Ord of Nunnikirk near Netherwitton are on a Visit at Mr Stanhopes; -

      I hope you intend to put your plan in Execution of Visiting Harrowgate, & that we shall then have the pleasure of seeing you here, I hear they sit down above a Hundred to Dinner at the Dragon; - in London some talk of Peace now the French have crossed the Rhine, & the Stocks keep up, if Parliament meets as soon as is expected there will be no chance of a dissolution of Parliament this Year, My little Boys are quite well, your Godson improves daily, Tynemouth has been of great Service to him; - I am Dear Sir

      Very Sincerely yr Obed. Servt

      D. Beaumont