Mie Mie, I believe, will be glad, when your L(ad)y (ship) comes to town, to go to the Chapel with Lady Caroline; you will tell me tout bonnement if you should have any objection; a tout evenement she will have a pew somewhere.  She can no longer support the idea of belonging to no communion, that en fait de salut she should be ni chair ni poisson.  She pleases me in that, and I shall be completely happy to see her established in the Protestant religion, provided that it is her own desire.  But my profession is not that of making converts, et je ne veux me charger de fame de personne.

My dearest William,(241) pray mind your Billiards; whatever you do, do not apply to it slovenly, wish success In it, and be so good, for my sake, as to love reading; you may entertain me, if you do, with a thousand pretty stories of Hector and his wife, of Romulus and Remus, and at last we may come to talk together of M. de St. Simon.  Learn to make a pen, and write a very large clean hand, and then I shall love you, if possible, more than I do at present.

Frederick,(242) what would I give to see you Regent with a Council, and Tany that Council.  You say nothing to me of Lizy or Gertrude; my love to them.

George must certainly be grown, but I do not perceive it.  I perceive that he is strong and well, and I hope he will have a great deal of hunting, sans etre trop temeraire.  My hearty love to Lady Caroline.  Mie Mie and I have not laid aside the thoughts of that which is so connected with our wishes and affections, but I see no immediate prospect of doing or hearing anything one likes as yet.

I was in hopes that when Lord C. came here next, you and the family would come with him.  I cannot bear the thoughts of not seeing you till after Christmas.  The winter will appear terrible (sic) long to me, who have so little pleasure here besides that of going in a morning to Grosvenor Place?(243)

To-day I have a bill sent me of 100 pounds 12 shillings 0 pence. laid out for the poor King, who ordered me to bespeak for him the best set which I could get of the glass dishes and basons for his dessert.  The Regency may perhaps not want them, thinking that they have no occasion for any dessert, and that they can do without it:  perhaps so, nous verrons.  Old Begum, as they call her, is more absurd, I hear, than ever.

I was sorry that I could not dine yesterday at Whitehall, but I shall not dine out of my room for some time.  Wine is my destruction, with the cold that I endure after it.  I shall keep myself, if I can, from any complaint that will prevent my going to Parliament.  The rat-catchers are going about with their traps, but they shall not have a whisker of mine.