I commend your prudence about Leghorn; but, my dear child, what pain I am in about you!  Is it possible to be easy while the Spaniards are at your gates! write me word every minute as your apprehensions vanish or increase.  I ask every moment what people think; but how can they tell here?  You say nothing of Mr. Chute, sure he is with You Still!  When I am in such uneasiness about you, I want you every post to mention your friends being with you:  I am sure you have none so good or sensible as he is.  I am vastly obliged to you for the thought of the book of shells, and shall like -it much; and thank you too about my Scagliola table; but I am distressed about your expenses.  Is there any way one could get your allowance increased?  You know how low my interest is now; but you know too what a push I would make to be of any service to you-tell me,, and adieu!

(730) Afterwards created Duchess of Chateauroux. (Mary Anne (le Mailly, widow of the Marquis de la Tournelle.  She succeeded her sister Madame de Mailly, as mistress of Louis XV., as the latter had succeeded the other sister, Madame de Vintimille, in the same situation.  Madame de Chateauroux was sent away from the court during the illness of Louis at Metz; but on his recovery he recalled her.  Shortly after which she died, December 10, 1744, and on her deathbed accused M. de Maurepas, the minister, of having poisoned her.  The intrigue, by means of which she supplanted her sister, was conducted principally by the Marshal de Richelieu.-D.

(731) “We earnestly entreat, insist, and require, that you will postpone the supplies until you have renewed the secret committee of inquiry."-E.

(732) An admirer of Lady Sophia Fermor.-D.

(733) This was a pasticcio, called “Mandane,” another name for Metastasio’s drama of “Artaserse."-E.

(734) Lord Tyrawley was many years ambassador at Lisbon.  Pope has mentioned his and another ambassador’s seraglios in one of his imitations of Horace, “Kinnoul’s lewd cargo, or Tyrawley’s crew.” [James O’Hara, second and last Lord Tyrawley of that family, He died in 1773, at the age of eighty-five.]

(735) Henry Nassau d’Auverquerque, second Earl of Grantham.  He had been chamberlain to Queen Caroline.  He died in 1754, when his titles became extinct.-E.

(736) Mrs. Beghan.

298 Letter 90
To Sir Horace Mann. 
Arlington Street, Dec. 2, 1742.,

You will wonder that it is above a fortnight Since I wrote to you; but I have had an inflammation in one of my eyes, and durst not meddle with a pen.  I have had two letters from you of Nov. 6th and 13th, but I am in the utmost impatience for another, to hear you are quite recovered of your Trinculos and FuribOndos.  You tell me you was in a fever; I cannot be easy till I hear from you again.  I hope this will come much too late for a medicine, but it will always serve for sal volatile to give you spirits.  Yesterday was appointed for considering