TALBOT2267

London

Dec^r 12^th

Dear Talbot

As I believe you are not a little interested in the the fate of Chippenham, ¹ I must give myself the pleasure of telling you before the newspapers that Chippenham will have two members under a new arrangement of the boroughs supposed to be more <illeg>tionable by which the <order?> is established according to number of houses & amount of taxation combined –

My share at least in the change is disinterested – as by it Calne ² <just?> drops into the top of Schedule B. ³ & Chippenham just gets above it – but I hope you will profit by it –

Yours <very?> truly

Lansdowne