As to our meeting, I will tell you my plan, and you may form your own accordingly.  I propose setting out from hence the last week in April, then drinking the Aix-la-Chapelle waters for a week, and from thence being at Spa about the 15th of May, where I shall stay two months at most, and then return straight to England.  As I both hope and believe that there will be no mortal at Spa during my residence there, the fashionable season not beginning till the middle of July, I would by no means have you come there at first, to be locked up with me and some few Capucins, for two months, in that miserable hole; but I would advise you to stay where you like best, till about the first week in July, and then to come and pick me up at Spa, or meet me upon the road at Liege or Brussels.  As for the intermediate time, should you be weary of Manheim and Munich, you may, if you please, go to Dresden, to Sir Charles Williams, who will be there before that time; or you may come for a month or six weeks to The Hague; or, in short, go or stay wherever you like best.  So much for your motions.

As you have sent for all the letters directed to you at Berlin, you will receive from thence volumes of mine, among which you will easily perceive that some were calculated for a supposed perusal previous to your opening them.  I will not repeat anything contained in them, excepting that I desire you will send me a warm and cordial letter of thanks for Mr. Eliot; who has, in the most friendly manner imaginable, fixed you at his own borough of Liskeard, where you will be elected jointly with him, without the least opposition or difficulty.  I will forward that letter to him into Cornwall, where he now is.

Now that you are to be soon a man of business, I heartily wish that you would immediately begin to be a man of method; nothing contributing more to facilitate and dispatch business, than method and order.  Have order and method in your accounts, in your reading, in the allotment of your time; in short, in everything.  You cannot conceive how much time you will save by it, nor how much better everything you do will be done.  The Duke of Marlborough did by no means spend, but he slatterned himself into that immense debt, which is not yet near paid off.  The hurry and confusion of the Duke of Newcastle do not proceed from his business, but from his want of method in it.  Sir Robert Walpole, who had ten times the business to do, was never seen in a hurry, because he always did it with method.  The head of a man who has business, and no method nor order, is properly that ‘rudis indigestaque moles quam dixere chaos’.  As you must be conscious that you are extremely negligent and slatternly, I hope you will resolve not to be so for the future.  Prevail with yourself, only to observe good method and order for one fortnight; and I will venture to assure you that you will never neglect them afterward, you will find such conveniency and advantage arising from them.  Method is the