put it up at Copt-hall, a seat which he has bought that belonged to Lord North and Grey.  You see I persevere in my heraldry.  T’other day the parson of Rigby’s parish dined with us; he has conceived as high an opinion of my skill in genealogies, as if I could say the first chapter of Matthew by heart.  Rigby drank my health to him, and that I might come to be garter king at arms:  the poor man replied with great zeal, “I wish he may with all my heart.”  Certainly, I am born to preferment; I gave an old woman a penny once, who prayed that I might live to be lord mayor of London!  What pleased me most in my travels was Dr. Sayer’s parsonage at Witham, which, with Southcote’s help, whose old Roman Catholic father lives just by him, he has made one of the most charming villas in England.  There are sweet meadows falling down a hill, and rising again on t’other side of the pretiest little winding stream you ever saw.  You did not at all surprise me with the relation of the keeper’s brutality to your family, or of his master’s to the dowager’s handmaid.  His savage temper increases every day.  George Boscawen is in a scrape with him by a court-martial, of which he is one; it was appointed on a young poor soldier, who to see his friends had counterfeited a furlough only for a day.  They ordered him two hundred lashes; but Molkejunskoi, who loves blood like a leech, insisted it was not enough-has made them sit three times (though every one adheres to the first sentence,) and swears they shall sit these six months till they increase the punishment.  The fair Mrs. Pitt has been mobbed in the Park, and with difficulty rescued by some gentlemen, only because this bashaw is in love with her.  You heard, I suppose, of his other amour with the Savoyard girl.  He sent her to Windsor and offered her a hundred pounds, which she refused because he was a heretic; he sent her back on foot.  Inclosed is a new print on this subject, which I think has more humour than I almost ever saw in one of that sort.

Should I not condole with you upon the death of the head of the Cues?(63) If’ you have not heard his will, I will tell you.  The settled estate of eight thousand a year is to go between the two daughters, out of which is a jointure of three thousand a year to the Duchess-dowager, and to that he has added a thousand more out of the unsettled estate, which is nine thousand.  He gives, together with his blessing, four thousand per annum rent-charge to the Duchess of Manchester in present, provided she will contest nothing with her sister, who is to have all the rest, and the reversion of the whole after Lady Cardigan and her children; but in case she disputes, Lady Hinchinbrooke and hers are in the entail next to the Cardigans, who are to take the Montagu name and livery.  I don’t know what Mr. Hussey will think of the blessing, but they say his Duchess will be inclined to mind it; she always wanted to be well with her father, but hated her mother.