your influence with Sir George Colebrook, that he may be discharged. The request is not great; for he is flight and feeble, and worth nothing but to those who value him for fome other merit than his own. I am, &c. LETTER XXIX. To Madame la Comteffe de May 16, 1771. OUI, Madame, le moment est arrivé, et il faut que je parte, mais pourquoi faut il partir? eft ce que je m'ennuye? je m'ennuyerai ailleurs. Eft ce que je cherche ou quelque plaifir ou quelque foulagement? Je ne cherche rien, je n'espere rien. Aller, voir ce que j'ai vû, être un peu rejoué, un peu degouté, me resouvenir que la vie fe paffe & qu'elle fe paffe en vain, me plaindre de moi, m'enducir aux dehors, voici le tout de ce qu'on compte pour les delices de l'année. Que Dieu vous donne, Madame, tous les agremens de la v'e, avec un efprit qui peut en jouir, fans s'y livrer trop. LETTER XXX. To Mrs. THRAL E. IT DEAR MADAM, June 15, 1771. T seems strange that I should live a week fo near you, and yet never fee you. I have been once to enquire after you, and when I have written this note am going again. The use of the pamphlet the letter will shew, which lies at the proper page. When Mr. Lfhews fo much attention, it cannot become me to fhew lefs, What to think of the cafe I know not; the relation has all appearance of truth; and one great argument is, that the only danger is in not believing, The water can, I think, do no harm; Dr. Wall thinks it may do good. If Mrs. Salusbury should think fit to go before you can go with her, I will attend her, if the will accept of my company, with great readiness, at my own expence, and if I am in the country will come back. I need not tell you, that I hope you are with the neceffary exceptions all well, or that I am, &c. LETTER XXXI. To Mrs. THRA L E. DEAR MADAM, Thursday, June 20, 1771. HIS night, at nine o'clock, Sam. Johnson and Francis Barber Efquires, fet out in the Lichfield stage; Francis is indeed rather it. What adventures we may meet with who can tell? upon I fhall write when I come to Lichfield, and hope to hear in return, that you are safe, and Mrs. Salusbury better, and all the reft as well as I left them. LETTER XXXII. Το Mrs. THRALE. DEAR MADAM, Lichfield, June 22, 1771. L AST night I came fafe to Lichfield; this day I was vifited by Mrs. Cobb. This afternoon I went to Mrs. Afton, where I found Mifs T―, and waited on her home. T the ftiles. Mifs wears fpectacles, and can hardly climb I was not tired at all, either last night or to-day. Mifs Porter is very kind to me. Her dog and cats are all well. In all this there is nothing very memorable, but fands form the mountain. I hope to hear from Streatham of a greater event, that a new being is born that fhall in time write fuch letters as this, and that another being is fafe that fhe may continue to write fuch. She can indeed do many other things; fhe can add to the pleasure of many lives, and among others to that of Her moft obedient, and Moft humble fervant. LETTER XXXIII. To Mrs. THRAL E. DEAR MADAM, ALL June 25, 1771. LL your troubles, I hope, are now paft, and the little ftranger fafe in the cradle. You have then nothing to do but survey the lawn from your windows, and fee Lucy try to run after Harry. Here things go wrong. They have cut down another tree, but they do not yet grow very rich. I enquired of my barber after another barber; that barber, fays he, is dead, and his fon has left off, to turn maltfter. Maltfters, I believe, do not get much money. of barley and the king's duty are known, and their profit is never suffered to rife high. But there is often a rife upon ftock.-There may as well be a fall-Very feldom. There are those in this town that have not a farthing less this year than fifty pounds by the rise upon ftock. Did you think there had been yet left a city in England, where the gain of fifty pounds in a year would be mentioned with emphasis? I am, &c. |