I just recollect a story, which perhaps will serve your archbishop on his Don Pilogio(712)-the Tartuffe was meant for the then archbishop of Paris, who, after the first night, forbad its being acted.  Moliere came forth, and told the audience, “Messieurs, on devoit vous donner le Tartuffe, mais MOnSeigneur l’Archev`eque ne veut pas qu’on le joue.”

My lord is very impatient for his Dominichin; so you will send it by the first safe conveyance.  He is making a gallery, for the ceiling of which I have given the design of that in the little library of St. Mark at Venice:  Mr. Chute will remember how charming it was; and for the frieze, I have prevailed to have that of the temple at Tivoli.  Naylor(713) came here the other day with two coaches full of relations:  as his mother-in-law, who was one of the company is widow of Dr. Hare, Sir Robert’s old tutor at Cambridge, he made them stay to dine:  when they were gone, he said, “Ha, child! what is that Mr. Naylor, Horace ? he is the absurdest man I ever saw!” I subscribed to his opinion; won’t you?  I must tell you a story of him.  When his father married this second wife, Naylor said,"Father, they say you are to be married to-day, are you?” “Well,” replied the bishop, “and what is that to you?” “Nay, nothing; only if you had told me, I would have powdered my hair.”

(704) Mr. Villettes was minister at Turin.

(705) Admiral Matthews; his ships having committed some outrages on the coast of Italy, the Italians called him it Furibondo.

(706) Of George the Second.-D.

(707) Afterwards a marshal of France.  He was a man of some ability, and the friend and patron of St. Lambert, and of other men of letters of the time of Lewis XV.-D. [He was made a marshal in 1783 by the unfortunate Louis XVI. and in 1789 a minister of state.  He died in 1793, a few weeks after the murder of his royal master.]

(708) Admiral Matthews.

(709) Eleonora of Guastalla, widow of the last cardinal of Medici, died at Venice. (The father of the children was a French running footman.-D.) [Cosmo the Third was sixty-seven years old at the period of the marriage:  “une fois le marriage conclu,” says the Biog.  Univ.  “El`eonore refusa de la consommer, rebut`ee par la figure, par l’age et surtout par les d`esordres de son `epouse.”  Cosmo died at the age of eighty-one.  A translation of his Travels through England, in 1669, was published in 1820.

(710) These are stories in a letter of Sir H. Mann’s, which are neither very decent nor very amusing.-D.

(711) Madame Grifoni.

(712) The Archbishop of Florence had forbid the acting of a burlettae called Don Pilogio, a sort of imitation of Tartuffe.  When the Impresario of the Theatre remonstrated upon the expense he had been put to in preparing the music for it, the archbishop told him he might use it for some other opera.-D.

(713) He was the son of Dr. Here, Bishop of Chichester, and changed his name for an estate.