I have some thought of going to pass a day in town when Warner comes, and if I do I will certainly go there by Fulham, to see the Dean.  I have not heard one syllable about him a great while.  You know, perhaps that Pyrome(?) is discharged, and relegue a ses terres.  He (has) a mechante langue, and to keep himself in place he should cut it out.

(283) The Castle Inn, Hill Street, Richmond.  It was for many years a fashionable resort as well as a noted posting house.  Mrs. Forty, the wife of a subsequent proprietor, was the subject of Sheridan’s toast at the Prince Regent’s table—­“Fair, Fat, and Forty.”

(284) Mme la Comtesse de Balbi (1753-1832), celebrated for her connection with the Comte de Provence, afterward Louis XVIII.  At the epoch of the Revolution she retired to Coblentz with Monsieur.  Leaving him she came to England, where she remained until the First Consul permitted the emigres to return to their homes, but she was soon discovered to be engaged in royalist intrigues and exiled; her endeavours to obtain the royal favour at the Restoration were vain.

(285) Louis de Boisgelin de Kerdu, Chevalier of Malta (1750-1816), historian; brother of the Cardinal.

(286) Caroline, daughter of the fourth Duke of Manchester, married, in July, 1790, the Marquess of Graham, who succeeded his father as third Duke of Montrose in September of that year.

(287) Augustus, Duke of Sussex, died 1843.

(1790,) Aug. 12, Thursday m(orning), 8 o’clock, Richmond.—­I sit down now to write you with some satisfaction, because that I shall have to tell you, towards the end of my letter, that Caroline is perfectly well, but you must have patience; I have not seen her to-day; I shall finish my letter at Isleworth.  At present, I only know that about 12 o’clock last night she eat plumb cake and drank wine and water in my parlour—­she, Mr. Campbell, and Mie Mie, and who besides I have not yet asked.  I was in bed when she came; it was an heure perdue, but not lost upon me, for I was not asleep, nor could sleep till I heard that those two girls were come home safe.

From what, in the name of God? you will say.  From seeing that etourdi Lord Barrymore(288) play the fool in three or four different characters upon our Richmond Theatre.  Well, but what did that signify?  Nothing to me; let him expose himself on as many stages as he pleases, and wherever the phaeton can transport him, but he comes here, and assembles as many people ten miles around as can squeeze into the Booth.  I had every fear that Mrs. Webb’s nerves or mine could suggest:  heat in the first place; I considered Car’s situation; an alarm, what difficulty there might be of egress; but we provided, Mr. Campbell and I, against everything.  Mrs. Vanheck, who has a most beautiful place at Roehampton, came and carried Mie Mie into her box.  Places were separated in the pit; at first Lady C(aroline) was to have been there with Mrs. Woodhouse, etc.; but, I say, the egress was the point I wished for, and looked to.  I got two places, by much interest and eloquence, in the hind row of the front box.  A door opened into the lobby, and from the lobby you go directly into the street.  So I shall hear, I suppose, to-day that all went au mieux.