This is not the only parting that makes a noise.  His grace of Kingston(714) has taken a pretty milliner from Cranborn-alley, and carried her to Thoresby.  Miss Chudleigh, at the Princess’s birthday on Friday, beat her side till she could not help having a real pain in it, that people might inquire what was the matter; on which she notified a pleurisy, and that she is going to the baths of Carlsbad, in Bohemia.  I hope she will not meet with the Bulgares that demolished the Castle of Thundertentronck.(715 y) My Lady Harrington’s robbery is at last come to light, and was committed by the porter,(716) who is in Newgate.

Lady Northumberland (who, by the way, has added an eighth footman since I wrote to you last) told Me this Morning that the Queen is very impatient to receive an answer from Lady Hertford, about Prince George’s letters coming through your hands, as she desired they might.

A correspondence between Legge and Lord Bute about the Hampshire election is published to-day, by the express desire of the former, When he was dying.(717) He showed the letters to me in the spring, and I then did not-think them so strong or important as he did.  I am very clear it does no honour to his memory to have them printed now.  It implies want of resolution to publish them in his lifetime, and that he died with more resentment than I think one should care to own.  I would Send them to you, but I know Dr. Hunter takes care of such things.  I hope he will send you, too, the finest piece that I think has been written for liberty since Lord Somers.  It is called an Inquiry into the late Doctrine on Libels, and is said to be written by one Dunning,(718) a lawyer lately started up, who makes a great noise.  He is a sharp thorn in the sides of Lord Mansfield and Norton, and, in truth, this book is no plaster to their pain.  It is bitter, has much unaffected wit, and is the Only tract that ever made me understand law.(719) If Dr. Hunter does not send you these things, I suppose he will convey them himself, as I hear there will be a fourteenth occasion for him.  Charles Fitzroy says, Lord Halifax told Mrs. Crosby that you are to go to Ireland.  I said he l(nows you are not the most communicative person in the world, and that you had not mentioned it—­nor do I now, by way of asking impertinent questions; but I thought you would like to know what was said.

I return to Strawberry Hill to-morrow, but must return on Thursday, as there is to be something at the Duke of York’s that evening, for which I have received a card.  He and his brother are most exceedingly civil and good-humoured—­but I assure you every place is like one of Shakspeare’s plays:—­Flourish, enter the Duke of York, Gloucester, and attendants.  Lady Irwin(720) died yesterday.

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