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come over my head, as the accounts are every day 

 better and better. I hope you are delighted with my 

 dear friend Canning's speech,* which was eloquent, 

 judicious, and energetic. I have seen nobody since 

 last Sunday. I sat between two philosophers, the one 

 Greek and the other Hebrew. Mrs Fish sat opposite 

 them, like the figure of Justice with the scales in her 

 hands, measuring their words and sentiments, which, 

 I am sure she, even by concatenation of ideas, did 

 not understand, and they were like hypotheses and 

 hyperboles to her waking brain. 



" By the newspapers of to-day I see that Lady 

 Oxford is arrived at her new residence ; and if it is 

 the case that for once they say the truth, tell her that 

 I shall be at Kensington on the 7th, and if she will 

 come at ten o'clock, with my Lord and Lady Jane 

 Lord Archibald I shall be delighted ; otherwise she 

 must come one morning, which we will then fix, to 

 Blackheath. 



" Give my love to your friends at Lisbon, and tell 

 them in what a state of seclusion I now live in, and 

 of despair that they are from their native country. 

 The first restrictions which it seems the present 

 Eegent has made upon Kensington is to be to appear 

 in the garment of melancholy on the 7th, which, of 

 course, as I am his first subject, I submit to without 

 protest. I suppose you know that I remain here in 

 this delightful and solitary recluse and sedentary resi- 

 dence till the 9th of February. My best compliments 

 to Lord and Lady Abercrombie, and to the proud 

 Aberdeen, who will not accept my box, at which I am 

 very angry ; for the moment Miss Flayman comes, I 



* On the Regency defence of Pitt. 



