LETTEE LXV 117 



I am the more in Hast to answer your Letter, because I hope 

 to be in Time to thank your Uncle for his kind Congratulations 

 & Prophecies. As to the Accomplishment, Time will shew ; but 

 as to the Probability, the Death of ArchBp of Canterbury has 

 added Strength. The current Opinion is, that York, & Salisbury, 

 & Peterboro' will follow in Succession; but We have no Hint 

 from Town whether this will be so or no, or whether my Uncle 

 will be in this Set, or be reserved for London. At least here is a 

 great Opening & his Name is used for some of the Spoils. God 

 knows what is designed & what is best for Us, but we are not 

 so abstracted but that our Hopes kindle a little on this occasion. 

 Mr Ogle having already obtained a very desirable Piece of Prefer- 

 ment by my Uncle's Means, is partly out of our Way, which has 

 been lucky ; yet we feel the Maturity of our Cousens, for a few 

 Years ago that Living had been mine. Yet I protest to my 

 Friend, I see it as it is, without Envy, & with hearty good wishes 

 for their long Enjoyment of that or better. My Turn, as your 

 Uncle says, will come ; & I am so happy in having obtained 

 the great Point of being married that I am not craving for any 

 particular Blessing besides; when it comes I hope to behave 

 properly, & be properly thankfull to Providence for it. 



You read in the Papers of the Accident at Worcester ; my 

 Bror Tom received no other Hurt than a Fright, being in the 

 same Eoom but at the other End ; nor any of his particular 

 friends. Poor Pressy has been at Death's Door wth a Feaver, 

 or She bad been wth Us. She is thought out of Danger. All 

 Friends also pretty well. 



And now, my dear Friend, what can be the matter wth You ? 

 for Mrs Mulso and Myself think your Case, as You state it, 

 unaccountable : You are not ill but in your Limbs, no Affection 

 of the Spirits, & yet Blisters, Valerian & Assa Foetida : If any 

 thing of this Sort remains, be a Man of a more constant Courage 

 than your poor Friend has been, &, after Leave obtained to get 

 into the Cold Bath, persevere in it. Tho' I do not think it a 

 Cure for the Head, without Evacuations of some Sort, but those 

 gentle. But it is a Friend to the Constitution in general. 



With regard to the Affair of Oriel. I heartily wish that You 

 had put yourself up from the Beginning, if anything we could 

 have done would have given You Success. But yet I think you 

 judge of the issue of Chardin's Election''' otherwise than You will 

 find it turn out : at least, I hope so. But I beleive this Subject 

 will do better to talk upon than to write upon ; for tho' we agree 

 in Opinion pretty well, a little Error of the Pen may make a 

 Discordancy, & I find that wth You Oriel Men, that goes farther 



* Chardin Musgrave, a Fellow, was elected Provost of Oriel on 27th 

 January, 1757. 



