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Mons. Huquier leaves this place to-morrow morning in the Duke of 

 AthoU. He has taken three extreme good likenesses of Self & Co which 

 were very near visiting Manchester, he not having any frames here ; but I 

 talked of non payment until Delivery of Goods, so he contriv'd to procure 

 Frames & Glasses. By the Bye, he turns out upon acquaintance to be a 

 mere Frenchman. He is very forward ; and, I think, sometimes very rude. 

 You will do well to keep him at Arm's length for he will intrude if you will 

 let him. 



I am glad to find things stand so well at Arley. Indeed I never 

 doubted but the Church wou'd gain a complete victory over the Presby- 

 terians. To be sure our friend, George, is quite another sort of a Subject 

 to what Mrs. H. has been used to. He has bottom. Potter was rather 

 washy. I am heartily glad she has escaped the whole tribe. If we live to 

 see the end of the War, we must certainly contrive to pay them a visit. I 

 think it may be as amusing as our long talked of voyage to the Hebrides ; 

 and as there is a Canal so near Arley we may possibly contrive to make our 

 journey by Water. 



I have not seen Mr. Gatliff since I wrote to you ; he has taken Lodgings 

 at Castletown, & has not been in Douglas since. I fancy retirement is his 

 plan ; if so he may live as retired as he please there. 



You have never once mentioned whether Mr. Jervis has been with you. 

 If he came I dare say you amused him much, either by a Tour of the Gardens, 

 or by some other means. I was much diverted by the papers making Lord 

 St. Vincent an Irishman, when all the world knows he was born in 



Staffordshire. 



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Huquier has certainly very Vagabond principles. 



I wonder whether little Natty was born when Wright painted his Dead 

 Soldier. The Child is extremely like him. 



Mr. J. Jervis, of Darlaston, Staffordshire, was an old 

 friend of Colonel Leigh Philips ; they had probably 

 become acquainted through the fact that the latter was 

 himself a member^of an old Staffordshire family. There 

 are two letters from him in the present collection, the first 

 of which, dated February i8th, 1783, is chiefly concerned 

 with matters relating to the writer's garden. The other, 

 dated May 23rd, 1785, relates to the subject of fruit 

 culture. 



The next letter is dated December loth. 



Yours of the 14 Ultmo arrived here in about 17 days after it was wrote ; 

 and it was a great chance whether it ever arrived or not ; for our worthy friend, 

 John Brew, had very nearly gone to Davys Locker. He was out two days 



