Charles’s house is now going to be new painted, and entire new furniture to be put into it, belonging to I do not know who(m).  He was security for an annuity of Richard’s, and so suffered this seizure on his account.  It is a strange combination altogether, and is now more the subject of conversation than any other topic, and it serves me also as one to fill my letter.  Si le recit vous ennuye, vous n’ignorez pas le motif que j’ai a vous le faire.  I suppose that you are not always at audiences, and that you may like sometimes to know what passes in circles from whence everything of moment is excluded, and where you may be again, to relieve yourself from business.

To-day I expect a letter from Warner, and of great decision and importance as to the matter about which he has been employed.  But if I see him come in while I am at dinner I shall not be surprised.  If I have a letter I will send you the substance of it, for I may not go out again after dinner, or only to Lady Harrington’s.  My bank is not like that at Brooks’s; there are a great many lacunes, and it is not above once in I do not know how long that I can get such a party as I had last night.

Ossory’s new house is delightful, and the furniture mighty well chose.  I have not met yet Lord Euston there, as I expected, But I have dined there less this than former years.

(163) Pitt’s second speech, on May 31st, was against a Bill to continue an Act for the appointment of Commissioners’ accounts.  The Opposition were defeated by 98 votes to 42.  The speech attracted great notice.

(1781,) June 2, Saturday morning.—­Charles Fox has desired me to send Gregg to him, and is to discharge the annuity for which you are bound, and, I hope, to pay off the arrears at the same time.  I have wrote to Gregg, to desire that he will lose no time, as Charles’s property is of a very fluctuating kind.  My dinner of yesterday was a very agreeable one to me, and seemed to be so to the rest.  But Charles had forgot, when he promised to come to me, that he was engaged to the Duke of Grafton.  The rest came, for this remarkable sitting at Pharo was over yesterday morning about seven o’clock, and so shall be my further account of it.  The event is so often repeated that it becomes less extraordinary.  But I have known of no other to entertain you with for some days past.  General Craigs sets off for Ireland in about a week or ten days.  I shall send my box of things for the children, either by him or Mr. Kinsman. . . .

The Montem is put off from Monday till Wednesday, for the convenience of their Majesties, who are to be there.  The Queen will not have prayers read in the manner that they have been used to be there; she sees it [in] the light of a comedy acted, and therefore, improper.  Doctor Young, the Fellow, has just been with me, to ask me if I could borrow a regimental suit of clothes, sash, and gorgette from some officer of the Guards, of my acquaintance.  I intend to ask Richard, for the boy who is to wear it is, by Doctor Y(oung)’s account, of Richard’s height.  If I had known it before, I could have sent to Matson for a sash which my father wore at the battle of Blenheim, where he assisted as Aid-de-Camp to my Lord Marlborough.  It will be a very lucrative campaign for the boy, who is captain.  His name is Roberts; he is a son of one of the Fellows.