As to Stosch expecting any present from me, he was so extremely well paid for all I had of’ him, that I do not think myself at all in his debt:  however, you was very good to offer to pay him.

As to my Lady Walpole, I shall say nothing now, as I have not seen either of the two persons since I received your letter to whom I design to mention her; only that I am extremely sorry to find you still disturbed at any of the little nonsense of’ that cibal.  I hoped that the accounts which I have sent you, and which, except in my last letter, must have been very satisfactory, would have served you as an antidote to their legends; and I think the great victory in the House of Lords, and which, I assure you, is here reckoned prodigious, Will raise your spirits against them.  I am happy you have taken that step about Sir Francis Dashwood; the credit it must have given you with the King will more than counterbalance any little hurt you might apprehend from the cabal.

I am in no hurry for any of my things; as we shall be moving from hence as soon as Sir Robert has taken another house, I shall not want them till I am more settled.

Adieu!  I hope to tell you soon that we are all at peace, and then I trust you will be so.  A thousand loves to the Chutes.  How I long to see you all!

P. S. I unseal my letter to tell you what a vast and, probably, final victory we have gained to-day.  They moved, that the lords flinging out the Bill of Indemnity was an obstruction of justice, and might prove fatal to the liberties of’ this country.  We have sat till this moment, seven o’clock, and have rejected this motion by 245 to 193.  The call of the House, which they have kept off from fortnight to fortnight, to keep people in town, was appointed for to-day.  The moment the division was over, Sir John Cotton rose and said, “As I think the inquiry is at an end, you may do what you will with the call.”  We have put it off for two months.  There’s a noble postscript!

(591) This farce, the production of Fielding, was acted several nights with success; but it being hinted, that one of the characters was written in ridicule of a man of quality, the Lord Chamberlain sent an order to forbid its being performed any more.-E.

(592) catherine Clive, an excellent actress in low comedy.  Churchill says of her, in the Rosciad,

In spite of outward blemishes she shone,
For humour famed, and humour all her own. 
Easy, as if at home, the stage she trod,
Nor sought the critic’s praise, nor fear’d his rod
Original in spirit and in ease,
She pleased by hiding all attempts to please. 
No comic actress ever yet could raise
On humour’s base, more merit or more praise.”

In after life she lived at Twickenham, in the house now called
Little Strawberry Hill, and
became an intimate friend of Horace Walpole@D.

(593) Garrick made his first appearance, October 19, 1741, in the character of Richard the Third.  Walpole does not appear to have been singular in the opinion here given.  Gray in a letter to Chute, says, “Did I tell you about Mr. Garrick, that the town are horn-mad after:  there are a dozen dukes of a night at Goodman-fields sometimes; and vet I am stiff in the opposition."-E.