I have not yet got Sir Charles’s ode;(1262) when I have, you shall see it:  here are my own lines.  Good night!

(1260) The Earl of Kilmarnock was not the son of the Countess of Errol.  His wife, the Lady Anne Livingstone, daughter of the Earl of Linlithgow, was her niece, and, eventually, her heiress.—­E.

(1261) The Duke of Argyle, telling him how sorry he was to see him engaged in such a cause, ‘MY Lord,’ says be, ’for the two Kings and their rights, I care not a farthing which prevailed; but I was starving, and by God, if Mahomet had set up his standard in the highlands, I had been a good Mussulman for bread, and stuck close to the party, for I must eat.’” Gray, vol. 5.-E.

(1262) On the Duchess of Manchester, entitled Isabella, or the Morning.-E.

497 Letter 214 To George Montagu, Esq.  Arlington Street, Aug. 11, 1746.

Dear George, I have seen Mr. Jordan, and have taken his house at forty guineas a-year, but I am to pay taxes.  Shall I now accept your offer of being at the trouble of giving orders for the airing of it?  I have desired the landlord will order the key to be delivered to you, and Asheton will assist you.  Furniture, I find, I have in abundance, which I shall send down immediately; but shall not be able to be at Windsor at the quivering dame’s before to-morrow se’nnight, as the rebel Lords are not to be executed till Monday.  I shall stay till that is over, though I don’t believe I shall see it.  Lord Cromartie is reprieved for a pardon.  If wives and children become an argument for saving rebels, there will cease to be a reason against their going into rebellion.  Lady Caroline Fitzroy’s execution is certainly to-night.  I dare say she will follow Lord Balmerino’s advice to Lord Kilmarnock, and not winch.

Lord Sandwich has made Mr. Keith his secretary.  I don’t believe the founder of your race, the great Quu,(1263) of Habiculeo, would have chosen his secretary from California.

I would willingly return the civilities you laid upon me at Windsor.  Do command me; in what can I serve you?  Shall I get you an earldom?  Don’t think it will be any trouble; there is nothing easier or cheaper.  Lord Hobart and Lord Fitzwilliam are both to be Earls to-morrow:  the former, of Buckingham; the latter, by his already title.  I suppose Lord Malton will be a Duke; he has had no new peerage this fortnight.  Adieu! my compliments to the virtuous ladies, Arabella and Hounsibeloa Quus.

P. S. Here is an order for the key.

(1263) The Earl of Halifax.-E.

497 Letter 215
To sir Horace Mann. 
Arlington Street, Aug. 12, 1746.

To begin with the Tesi; she is mad if she desires to come hither.  I hate long histories, and so will only tell you in a few words, that Lord Middlesex(1264) took the opportunity of a rivalship between his own mistress, the Nardi, and the Violette,(1265) the finest and most admired dancer in the world, to involve the whole m`enage of the Opera in the quarrel, and has paid nobody; but, like a true Lord of the Treasury, has shut up his own exchequer.  The principal man-dancer was arrested for debt; to the composer his Lordship gave a bad note, not payable in two years, besides amercing him entirely three hundred pounds, on pretence of his siding with the Violette.  If the Tesi likes this account-venga! venga!