Tue 25 Jan 1814
To J S Salt
London
Weekly Returns being mere forms, shall be sent … when the Coaches travel again, as we have not had one from or to London for the last week …
Wharf on Wilts and Berks Canal destitute of coal, & knowing the consumers … would be compelled to visit Leachlade Wharf … to raise the price as high as thought prudent … the small stack there being the only coal upon any wharf above this place (Brimscombe) - there are 2 or 3 boats loaded with coal frozen up on this side of the Tunnel whose cargoes are being fetched to Cirencester in wagons … Should the present weather continue this week, Brimscombe will be the only place having any coal, from Oxford to the River Severn.
Mr Proctor seriously ill, though better.
