at fix, and if I was to ftay would try to conform to all wholefome rules. Pray let Harry have the penny which I owe him for the laft morning.

Mr. Colfon is well, and ftill willing to keep me, but I delight not in being long here. Mr. Smollet of Lochlomond and his Lady have been here. We were very glad to meet.

Pray let me know how you do, and play no more tricks; if you do, I can yet come back and watch

you.

I am, &c.

I

LETTER CV.

To Mr. THRA L E.

DEAR SIR,

BEG that

you will be pleased to fend me an atteftation to Mr. Carter's merit. I am going to-morrow; and shall leave the pamphlet to shift for itself.

*

You need only fay, that you have fufficient knowledge of Mr. Carter to testify that he is

* Taxation no Tyranny.

eminently

eminently skilful in the art which he profeffes, and that he is a man of fuch decency and regularity of manners, that there will be no danger from his example to the youth of the colleges; and that therefore you fhall confider it as a favour if leave may be obtained for him to profefs horfemanship in the University.

I am, &c.

Please to free this letter to Mifs Lucy Porter in Lichfield.

LETTER CVII.

To Mrs. THRA L E.

MADAME,

TR

June 5, 1775

ROIS jours font pafféz fans que je reçoive une lettre; point de nouvelles, point d'amitié, point de querelles. Un filence fi rare, que veut-il? je vous ai envoyé l'épitaphe, trop longue à la verité, mais on la raccourcira fans beaucoup de peine. Vous n'en avez pas dit un Peutêtre que je ferai plus heureux ce

mot.

foir.

VOL. I.

е

J'ai

J'ai epuifé ce lieu, ou je n'étudie pas, et ou fi on ôte l'étude, il n'y a rien, et je ne trouve guere moyen d'echaper. Les voitures qui paffent par cy, paffent dans la nuit; les chaifes de pofte me couteront beaucoup. J'envoye querir un paffage plus commode.

Je dinerai demain chez le Vice Chancelier, j'efpere de trouver des chofes un peu favorables à nôtre ami infortuné, mais je n'ai nulle confiance. Je fuis,

MADAME,

Votre tres obeiffant ferviteur.

LETTER CVIII.

To Mrs. THRA L E.

MADAM,

SUCH

June 6, 1775. UCH is the uncertainty of all human things, that Mr. C has quarrelled with me. He fays, I raise the laugh upon him, and he is an independent man, and all he has is his own, and he is not used to fuch things. And fo I fhall have no more good of Cof whom I never had any good but flattery,

which my dear mistress knows I can have at home.

That I had no letters yesterday I do not wonder; for yesterday we had no post. I hope fomething will come to-day. Our poft is fo ill-regulated that we cannot receive letters and answer them the fame day.

Here I am, and how to get away I do not fee; for the power of departure otherwise than in a post-chaife depends upon accidental vacancies in paffing coaches, of which all but one in a week pafs through this place at three in the morning. After that one I have fent, but with little hope; yet I fhall be very unwilling to stay here another week.

I fupped two nights ago with Mr. Bright, who enquired after Harry and Queeney, to whom I likewife defire to be remembered.

Suppose I should grow like my mistress, and when I am to go forward, think eagerly how and when I fhall come back, would that be a ftrange thing? Love and reverence have always had fome tendency to produce conformity.

Where is Mr. Baretti? Are he and Queeney plague and darling as they are used to be? I

hope

hope my sweet Queeney will write me a long letter, when I am fo fettled that fhe knows how to direct to me, and if I can find any thing for her cabinet, I fhall be glad to bring it.

What the Vice Chancellor fays respecting Mr. Carter, if he fays any thing, you shall know to-morrow, for I fhall probably leave him too late for this day's poft.

If I have not a little fomething from you to-day, I shall think fomething very calamitous has befallen us. This is the natural effect of punctuality. Every intermiffion alarms. Deareft dear Lady, take care of yourself. You connect us, and rule us, and vex us, and please us. We have all a deep intereft in your health and profperity.

I am, &c.