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exceedingly. I have only received the one from Paris, 

 which is dated from your bed, early in the morning, and 

 in that you say nothing of the Teresina, so that I know 

 not whether you have seen her or not. There is also little 

 about the Eena, only that she is in good spirits and well. 



Your letter, however, is charming, and I like vastly 

 your account of everything. I see you like Paris better 

 than ever, and even if I had no inclination to come, which 

 I really have, you would make me wish to do so by your 

 description, but I can come to no resolution till after 

 Newmarket. If I have bad luck, there will be no money. 

 I shall bo obliged to take a thousand of yours to go down, 

 but it will be replaced in a few days, let what will happen, 

 the Cherubim having found a person Avho can let me 

 have it. 



Since I wrote to you last, I have continued here, and 

 lived chiefly with his Eoyal Highness, le Chevalier Delaval, 

 and the opera people, and now I do not propose going to 

 Newmarket till Sunday. Everybody is at Orford's, but it 

 would be too far to go there for one day. 



I received yesterday the enclosed letter from Thynne. 

 Jonathan Bray, who once lived with the Duke of Kingston, 

 and understands horses well, is set out this morning with 

 a horse for the Duke of B., which Charles Townshend 

 sends him. I have given him a packet of mustard for 

 you, and if you can do him any service I wish you would, 

 for he is a very honest fellow, and you may venture to 

 recommend him as such. Monsieur de Guerchy is ex- 

 pected to-day. I do not hwar any news. Lord Chatham 

 is at Bath, and there is very little talk about him here. I 

 am told they want Huntingdon to go to Spain, but he 

 likes to be where he is, which nobody wonders at, if he 



