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Your letter has rejoiced me (as you will easily believe) & agreeably disappointed me. I congratulate you in the first place; & am very glad to see, the College have had the spirit & the sense to do a thing so much to their credit, & to do it in a handsome manner. my best service to Mr Lyon, & tell him it will be a great disobligation, if my Lady takes him away to pass the Christmas with her, just when I am proposing to visit him in his new capacity. I hope to be with you in about a week, but will write again before I come: do persuade Mr Delaval to stay: tell him, I will say any thing he pleases of Mr P:
Have you read the Negotiations? (I speak not to Mr Del:, but to you) the French have certainly done Mr P: service in publishing them.
the spirit & contempt he has shewn in his treatment of Bussy's proposals, whether right or wrong, will go near to restore him to
his popularity, & almost make up for the disgrace of the pension. my Ld T: is outrageous: he
makes no scruple of declaring, that the D: of N: & Ld B: were the persons, whose frequent
opposition in Council were the principal cause of this resignation. he has (as far as he could) disinherited his Brother G: Gr:lle that
is, of about 4000£ a-year, his Father's estate. & yesterday he made a very strange speech in the House, that surprised every body.
the particulars I can not yet hear with certainty. but the D: of Bedford replied to it. did you
observe a very bold letter in the Gazetteer of Thursday last about Carr, Earl of Somerset? how do you like the K:s Speech? it is Ld Hardwick's. how
do you like Hogarth's Perriwigs? I suppose, you have discover'd the last face in the rank of
Peeresses to be a very great personage, extremely like; tho' you never saw her. Good night!