4 Eaton Place 1
June 23d
My dear Sir
I am extremely concerned that it will not be in my Power to attend the County Meeting, 2 which you have summoned at Devizes on Friday next, in consequence of Business coming on in Parliament, which I think of too much Importance to allow me to be absent from my Place.
Cordially concurring as I do with the other Gentlemen who signed the Requisition to you, it would have been a great satisfaction to me, and I had fully reckoned on joining publicly with the rest of the County, in expressing our Horror and Indignation at the Traitorous Attack upon our Sovereign, 3 our Admiration of Her majesty’s Intrepidity at a moment of such Danger, and our gratitude to the Almighty for Her Preservation.
No one can feel these sentiments more deeply and sincerely than myself.
I remain my dear Sir yours very truly
T H S Sotheron.
The High Sherriff of Wilts &c
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