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forgot to tell you that, when I wrote to the Duke 

 of Queensberry according to your directions, after 

 giving him the information you desired, I ended 

 with, " I should be glad to give your grace any piece 

 of news I might now and then pick up, if I thought 

 it would be agreeable to you ; but I am rather short 

 of paper, and, when your grace gives up your claim 

 upon Mr. Selwyn's stationer, he says it shall be 

 transferred to me." I hope you will think that the 

 hint was a very gentle and very distant one, and 

 by no means improper, as it cannot be supposed, 

 with his princely fortune, that he would hold this 

 claim but from mere inattention. But I have 

 not heard from his grace, which, you will say, I 

 had no need to tell you.' That this letter was 

 a reproach on some matter now uncognisable is 

 evident ; but to place any construction on it without 

 further evidence or facts being adduced, would be 

 unjust. 



The fourth Duke of Queensberry is an unique 

 instance of a nobleman, with seats sufficient to keep 

 up a peregrination round the calendar, localising 

 himself almost as soon as the concrete possessions 

 of his family devolved on him. Thus, this year, 

 1780, he purchased from the descendants of George, 

 third Earl of Cholmondeley, the mansion which that 



