I shall wind up this letter, Which is pretty long for a blind man without spectacles, with an admirable bon-mot.  Somebody asked me at the play the other night what was become of Mrs. Woffington; I replied, she is taken off by Colonel Caesar.  Lord Tyrawley said, “I suppose she was reduced to aut Caesar aut Nullus.”

The monument about which you ask you shall see in a drawing, when finished; it is a simple Gothic arch, something in the manner of the columbaria:  a Gothic columbarium is a new thought of my own, of which I am fond, and going(852) to execute one at Strawberry.  That at Linton is to have a beautiful urn, designed by Mr. Bentley, as the whole is, with this plain, very true inscription, “Galfrido Mann, amicissimo, optimo, qui obiit—­H.  W. P.”

Thank you for the King of Prussia’s letter, though I had seen it before.  It is lively and odd.  He seems to write as well with Voltaire as he fights as well without the French—­or without us.

Monday night.

The report is made, but I have not yet seen it, and this letter must go away this minute.  I hear it names no names, says no reason appears why they did not land on the 25th, and gives no merit to all Mr. Conway’s subsequent proposals for landing.  Adieu!

(844) The battle of Rosbach.

(845) Dr. Stone, Archbishop of Armagh.

(846) Lady Kildare was sister of Lady Caroline Fox.

(847)) Walpole, in his Memoires of George ii., states that “the Duke of Bedford, on the death of the King’s sister, the Queen Dowager of Prussia, who had privately received a pension of eight Hundred pounds a-year out of the Irish establishment, had obtained it for his wife’s sister, Lady Waldegrave."-E.

(848) Afterwards Sir William Hamilton, appointed, in 1764, envoy to the court of Naples, where he resided during the long period of thirty-six years; and where, “wisely diverting,” in the language of Gibbon, “his correspondence from the secretary of state to the Royal Society and British Museum, he passed his time in elucidating a country of inestimable value to the naturalist and antiquarian.”  He returned to England in 1800, and died in 1803.-E.

(849) Elizabeth, sister of the Duke of Marlborough.

(850) Walpole, in his Royal Authors, says, “I have had both repositories carefully searched.  The reference to the Vatican proves a new inaccuracy of the author; there is no work of King Richard.  In the Laurentine library is a sonnet written by the King, and sent to the Princess Stephanetta, wife of Hugh de Daux, which I have had transcribed with the greatest exactness.”  Works, vol. i. p. 252.-E.

(851) “Commentarii intorno alla sua Istoria della Volgar Poesia.”  In 1803, Mr. Matthias, the author of the Pursuits of Literature, published an edition of the commentaries, detached from the historical part, in three volumes, 12mo.-E.

(852) It was not executed.