death:  the duke dies in a fortnightt, and leaves them all!  People talk of Fortune’s wheel, that is always rolling:  my Lord Hardwicke has overtaken her wheel, and rolled with it.  I perceive Miss Jenny (207) would not venture to Ireland, nor stray so far from London; I am glad I shall always know where to find her within threescore miles.  I must say a word to my lord, which, Harry, be sure you don’t read. ["My dear lord, I don’t love troubling you with letters, because I know you don’t love the trouble of answering them; not that I should insist on that ceremony, but I hate to burthen any one’s conscience.  Your brother tells me he is to stand member of parliament:  without telling me so, I am sure he owes it to you.  I am sure you will not repent setting him up; nor will he be ungrateful to a brother who deserves so much, and whose least merit is not the knowing how to employ so great a fortune.”]

There, Harry,-I have done.  Don’t suspect me:  I have said no ill of you behind your back.  Make my best compliments to Miss Conway. (208)

I thoght I had done, and lo, I had forgot to tell you, that who d’ye think is here?-Even Mr. More! our Rheims Mr. More! the fortification, hornwork, ravelin, bastion Mr. More! which is very pleasant sure.  At the end of the eighth side, I think I need make no excuse for leaving off; but I am going to write to Selwyn, and to the lady of the mountain; from whom I have had a very kind letter.  She has at last received the Chantilly brass.  Good night:  write to me from one end of the world to t’other.  Yours ever.

(197) A large old house, two miles from the seat of Sir Arthur Acheson, near Market-hill, and the scene of Swift’s humorous poem, “The Grand Question debated, whether Hamilton’s Bawn should be turned into a barrack or a malt-house."-E.

(198) Afterwards Sir Horace Mann.  He was at this time resident at Florence from George ii.

(199) Henrietta Louisa, wife of Thomas Earl of Pomfret. [She was the daughter of John Lord Jefferies, Baron of Wem.  Lady Pomfret, who was the friend and correspondent of Frances Duchess of Somerset, retired from the court upon the death of Queen Caroline in 1737.]

(200) Afterwards married to John Lord Carteret, who became Earl of Granville on the death of his mother in the year 1744.

(201) Lady Charlotte Fermor married, in August 1746, William Finch, brother of Daniel seventh Earl of Winchelsea, by whom she had issue a son, George, who, on the death of his uncle, in 1769, succeeded to the earldom.  Her ladyship was governess to the children of George iii., and highly esteemcd by him and his royal consort.-E.

(202) The Princess Craon was the favourite mistress of Leopold the last Duke of Lorrain, who married her to M. de Beauveau, and prevailed on the Emperor to make him a prince of the empire.  They at this time resided at Florence, where Prince Craon was at the head of the council of regency.