Rinuncini is gone:  Niccolini sups continually with the Prince of Wales, and learns the Constitution!  Pandolfini is put to-bed, like children, to be out of the way.  Adieu!

P. S. My Lady O. who has entirely settled her affairs with my brother, talks of going abroad again, not being able to live here on fifteen hundred pounds a-year—­many an old ’lady, and uglier too, lives very comfortably upon less.  After I had writ this, your brother brought me another letter with a confirmation of all we had heard about Genoa.  You may be easy about the change of provinces,(1326) which has not been made as was designed.  Echo Mons`u Chute

>From Mr. Chute.

Mr. Walpole gives me a side, and I catch hold of it to tell you that I parted this minute with your charming brother, who has been in the council with me about your grand affair:(1327) it is determined now to be presented to the King by way of memorial; and to-morrow we meet again to draw it up:  Mr. Stone has graciously signified that this is a very proper opportunity — one should think he must know.

Oh!  I must tell you:  I was here last night, and saw my Lord Walpole,(1328) for the first time, but such a youth!  I declare to you, I was quite astonished at his sense and cleverness; it is impossible to describe it; it was just what would have made you as happy to observe as it did me:  he is not yet seventeen, and is to continue a year longer at Eton, upon his own desire.  Alas! how few have I seen of my countrymen half so formed even at their return from their travels!  I hope you will have him at Florence One day or other; he will pay you amply for the Pigwiggins, and------

Mr. Walpole is quite right in all he tells you of the miracle worked by St. Davis, which certainly merits the credit of deceiving far better judges of painting than I; who am no judge of any thing but you, whom I pretend to understand better than any body living and am, therefore, my dear sir, etc. etc. etc.  J. C.

(1323) This circumstance is thus alluded to in a letter of Sir Horace Mann’s, dated Dec. 20th, 1746.  “The affairs of Genoa are in such a horrid situation, that one is frightened out of one’s senses.  The accounts of them are so confused, that one does not know what to make of them; but it is certain that the mob is quite master of the town and of every thing in it.  They have sacked several houses, particularly that of the Doge, and five or six others, belonging to those who were the principal authors of the alliance which the Republic made with France and Spain."-D.

(1324) Andrew Stone, secretary to the Duke of Newcastle, and afterwards sub-governor to George, Prince of Wales.

(1325) Edmund Waller, of Beaconsfield.

(1326) Meaning a change in the secretaries of state.  There were at this time two, one of whom was called the Secretary of State for the Northern Province, and the other the Secretary of State for the Southern Province.-D.