Lord Stafford is come over to marry Miss Cantillon, a vast fortune, of his own religion.  She is daughter of the Cantillon who was robbed and murdered, and had his house burned by his cook(805) a few years ago.  She is as ugly as he; but when she comes to Paris, and wears a good deal of rouge, and a separate apartment, who knows but she may be a beauty!  There is no telling what a woman is, while she is as she is.  There is a great fracas in Ireland in a noble family or two, heightened by a pretty strong circumstance of Iricism.  A Lord Belfield(806) married a very handsome daughter of a Lord Molesworth.(807) A certain Arthur Rochfort, who happened to be acquainted in the family, by being Lord Belfield’s own brother, looked on this woman, and saw that she was fair.  These ingenious people, that their history might not be discovered, corresponded under feigned names-And what names do you think they chose?-Silvia and Philander!  Only the very same that Lord Grey(808) and his sister-in-law took upon a parallel occasion, and which arc printed in their letters!

Patapan sits to Wootton to-morrow for his picture.  He is to have a triumphal arch at a distance, to signify his Roman birth, and his having barked at thousands of Frenchmen in the very heart of Paris.  If you can think of a good Italian motto applicable to any part of his history send it to me.  If not, he shall have this antique one-for I reckon him a senator of Rome, while Rome survived,-"O, et Presidium et dulce decus meum!” He is writing an ode on the future campaign of this summer; it is dated from his villa, where he never was, and being truly in the classic style, “While you, great Sir,” etc.  Adieu!

(802) Walpole seems to have forgotten the battle of Blenheim.-D;

(803) Adolphus Frederick of Holstein, Bishop of Lubeck, was elected successor, and did succeed to the crown of Sweden.  He married the Princess Louisa Ulrica of Prussia.

(804) Afterwards Duchess of Brunswick.-D.

(805) Cantillon was a Paris wine-merchant and banker, who had been engaged with Law in the Mississippi scheme.  He afterwards brought his riches to England and settled in this country.  In May 1734, some of his servants, headed by the cook, conspired to murder him, knowing that he kept large sums of money in his house.  They killed him, and then set fire to the house; but the fire was extinguished, and the body, with the wounds upon it, found.  The cook fled beyond sea; but in December, three of his associates were tried at the Old Bailey for the murder, and acquitted.-E.

(806) Robert Rochfort, created Lord Belfield in Ireland in 1737, Viscount Belfield in 1751, and Earl of Belvedere in 1756.  His second wife, whom be married in 1736, was the Hon. Mary Molesworth.  D.

(807) Richard, third Viscount Molesworth, in Ireland.  He had been aide-de-camp to the great Duke of Marlborough, and in that capacity distinguished himself greatly at the battle of Ramilies.  He became afterwards master-general of the ordnance in Ireland, and commander of the forces in that kingdom, and a field-marshal.  He died in 1758.-D.