What public business is going on I know not, for all the discourse at which I am present turns upon this bank.  Offly sat up last night till four, and I believe has lost a good part of his last legacy.  Lord Spencer did not sit up, but was there punting at 4.  Now the windows are open at break of day, et le masque leve, rien ne surprend qu’a qui tout soit nouveau, et ne ressemble a rien que l’on ait jamais vu depuis le commencement du monde.  There is to-night a great ball at Gloucester House; it is the Restoration Day, and the birthday also of Princess Sophia.  Lady Craufurd is now dressing for it, with more roses, blood, and furbelow than were ever yet enlisted(?).  My love and thanks to my dear boy for his letter, which I will answer.

(1781,) May 31, Thursday.—­If I did not send you tous les petits details de ma vie, as insignificant as it is, our correspondence must soon cease, which is one of the greatest pleasures to me, or rather comforts, in your absence.  I trust to others the information of things of more consequence.  I have, then, if this is not disagreeable to you, a perpetual source of intelligence, for although je ne fais rien qui vaille, I am always doing or hearing something, as much as those who are employed about more important matters, and if among these a circumstance happens to interest or amuse you, je ne serai pas fache de vous l’avoir mandee.

The diversion of seeing Charles’s dirty furniture in the street, and the speculations which this execution has caused, avec tous les propos, et toutes les plaisanteries qui en resultant—­all that is now over, and he is established either at his Pharo table, or at his apothecary’s, Mr. Mann, who, as a recompense for the legacy which was left by his father and not yet paid, has Charles for a lodger.  Jack Manners does not scruple to say that he knows for a certainty that this bank has won to the amount of 40,000 pounds, but then Jack does not scruple to lie when he chooses so to do.  I cannot conceive above half the sum to have been won; but then, most of it has been paid.

Trusty’s advancement to a share in this bank, and his new occupation of dealing, was what I had a great curiosity to see; and although he is, as you know, fort chiche de ses paroles, he is obliged for the time that he is upon duty to say “The King loses,” and “The Knave wins,” and this for some’hours, while Charles and Richard are in bed.  Hare is also indefatigable, but what his share is, or what have been his profits, I know not.  Never was a room so crowded or so hot as this was last night.  I could not stay, or chose so to do.  The punters were Lord Ossory, Lord C. Spencer, Admiral Pigott, General Smith, Lord Monson, Sir J. Ramsden, &c., &c.

To-day I dine at Lord Ossory’s with Lord Robert and Harry Conway, qui m’avoient demande a diner, but it was by Ossory’s desire to his house.  I mentioned to Lord Ossory the offer which the Duchess of Bedford had made me of Streatham, and I was much blamed for refusing it.  If the offer is made again I shall accept it, and it will serve me for a villa till I have hired another.