The Fish came a few evenings ago to dine at Brooks’s after the House of Commons was up, but hearing by accident that Lord North dined at White’s he went thither, and ordered some champagne and burgundy from his own house for his Lordship’s use.  He got a dinner by this means the next day at Rigby’s with Lord Mansfield and the Chancellor, and then he came to Ossory, and gave himself a thousand airs upon this invitation.  I have told you perhaps that a nephew of Lord Chedworth’s, the heir of his title and estate, got into the same scrape at Epsom as Onslow did at the Exhibition; ceci prouve la force d’une passion qui est hors de la nature; les autres ont leurs bornes, et de la discretion jusqu’a un certain point.

I went from dinner yesterday to the House of Commons, and came just time enough to be in a division upon some American question, God knows what.  I was received in the House with a laugh, because three parts out of four believed me to be with you in Ireland, as bouffon de la Cour.  This the morning papers had instructed them to believe, and such is the notion I believe that the writers of those papers have of my talents and turn.  You have not told me that Lady Carlisle is with child, but I hear it from other hands.  Be so good as not to let me be ignorant of these probable events, in which my affection to her and to you is so much interested.

I sat a great while the other morning with Miss Gunning at St. James’s; Sir Robert was with her.  She is afraid of having the measles; her sister has them at present.  The Ball at Glouc(ster) House was magnificent, and their Royal Highnesses gracious al maggior segno.  They call the others, “the people in Pall Mall,” and the man in Pall Mall calls the Duke(160) “the Warden of the Forest,” and distinguishes him by no other name.  I wonder that they do not let other people find names for them both, who know them better than they do themselves.

64 (161) is to be a fine sight, that is, a great concourse of people will be there, I suppose, on their Majesties’ account.  Mie Mie wants to go.  If the Townshends, that is Mary and Lady Middleton, had offered to be troubled with her, I should have consented and gone there myself.  I have made no preparations for the Birthday, but thinking where I shall go to avoid it; or for yours, but I will; Storer shall dine with me that day, et ceux que je crois vous etre les plus attaches, and we will drink the health of their Excellencies, cela du petit dauphin, of my dear little Caroline, et ainsi du reste.  Pierre tells me that she is not so tall as Mie Mie is at present; en dedommagement de cela elle est cent mille fois plus robuste.  As to myself, j’ai un management pour ma sante incroyable.  For I am determined, if it pleases God, to live to see you and all of you again, but when or where, that must be left to the chapter of accidents.  Emily has left off writing to me; he wrote to me twice pour faire votre eloge, ce qui ne fut fort peu necessaire, and there was an end of his epistolary correspondence.  Pray goad that Dean(162) who slumbers in his stall, and make him write. . . .