Mrs. Bartho is already gone to Lady Lewisham.  Caroline stayed to dine in town, and they returned here about six.  I think that Mr. C(ampbell) seems to-day not determined to stay so long at Cliveden as he thought to do.  I shall wish them to return, be it only that I may have the more to say to you, and the better security for my letters being well accepted.

I hope that George was amused at the York races.  I have seen this morning in Lizy’s letter that he was there.  Vixen is sitting for his picture, and this is all the news of Isleworth.  I may have more to tell Lord C(arlisle) when I write to him, which I shall do by the next post.  My love to them all, you know whom I mean.

What does Lord C. mean by calling himself alone?  Peut-on etre mieux qu’au sein de sa famille?  That was part of an ariette which M. de la Fayette’s music played the day the K(ing) went to the Hotel de Ville, as I have been informed by a pamphlet, wrote to abuse Mr. Neckar, and which is incomparably well wrote.  I will get it for George if he desires it, and will promise to read it.  I am afraid that he is too much of (a) Democrate, but as a lover of justice, and of mankind, and of order and good government, he would not be so long, s’il vouloit se rendre a mes raisons; mais il croit que je n’en ai pas, et que je me retranche a dire des invectives, sans avoir des argumens pour soutenir mon systeme; en cela il se trompe.  God bless him; je l’aime de tout mon coeur, et je l’estime aussi, qui est encore davantage.

(297) Thomas Townshend.

(1790,) Sept. 4, Saturday m(orning), Richmond.—. . .  My larder is rich from Mr. C(ampbell’s) chasse.  I had some game the day after the first hostilities against the partridges commenced. . . .  Our foreign connections here increase; le Comte de Suffren and his family are going to establish themselves here in a house above the Bridge, and on the banks of the River.  He came to the Duke’s(298) yesterday, where we dined, and stayed with us the whole evening.  He is an aristocrate, and a great sufferer by the troubles in France, but he is a very sober, moderate man, and intelligent.  The Duke liked his company very much.

I am loaded now with pamphlets upon this great and extraordinary event; some entertain me, some not.  I like much what I have just been reading, which is the opinion of the Abbe Maury,(299) delivered in the National Assembly, upon the executif and legislatif power, in regard to declaring war, and concluding treaties of commerce and alliance.  There is a great deal of good sense in it, and comes the nearest to my own opinion of what has passed.  I suppose that Lord C. has read it.  I hope that George will read it too.  If I was sure that the speech was not at Castle H. I would transcribe some passages out of it, a sa consideration.