274 'OLD Q' 



This cursed peace, that I have expected every day for these 

 two months, I begin now to despair of. Hervey is waiting 

 for me, so I shall finish this epistle after dinner. 



I have just returned from the Hcitel de Milady 

 (Hervey). At dinner, Lord and Lady Stormont, Mrs. 

 Dives, Stanley, Morris, Augustus (Hervey) and myself. 

 Never Avas anything so French as her dinner, and the 

 manner of its being served. It is a charming home, and 

 as I have rather a partiality for the French, I am very 

 glad to have the entnK Horace Walpole, who was in town 

 3"esterday, tells me I am in great favour, and I always 

 have a great deal of prejudice for those that like me, which 

 is one of the reasons why I love you more than anybody 

 else. I intend sending your gazettes of the King and 

 Queen by Stanley, if he goes before the Tondino.^ 



Monsieur de Nivernois is the most agreeable man in the 

 world. The more I see him the more I like him. He is 

 not yet got into his new house. I never had an oppor- 

 tunity of seeing Miss Newton, so I have not been able to 

 make your excuses. 



Metliam recruits but slowly. He assures us he is to 

 be married to Miss ... (I forget her name — Lady Jane 

 Coke's heir) as soon as he is recovered, and has told the 

 Tondino, that he will immediately ask for a peerage. 

 Perhaps he may be satisfied with an Irish one — Lord 

 Viscount Montgomery, and Baron Metham of North Cove. 

 None of your acquaintances are in town ; scarce a number 

 of any sort to make either a dinner or a supper here. I 

 am just now going to Duchess Hamilton's, who is much 

 better. — Yours most afl'ectionately, M. AND E.^ 



^ Another cMre amie of Lord March's. 

 ^ March and Rvifflen. 



