13.  This toad of a Secretary is come from Windsor, and I cannot find him; and he goes back on Sunday, and I can’t see him to-morrow.  I dined scurvily to-day with Mr. Lewis and a parson; and then went to see Lord Treasurer, and met him coming from his house in his coach:  he smiled, and I shrugged, and we smoked each other; and so my visit is paid.  I now confine myself to see him only twice a week:  he has invited me to Windsor, and betwixt two stools, etc.  I will go live at Windsor, if possible, that’s pozzz.  I have always the luck to pass my summer in London.  I called this evening to see poor Sir Matthew Dudley, a Commissioner of the Customs; I know he is to be out for certain:  he is in hopes of continuing:  I would not tell him bad news, but advised him to prepare for the worst.  Dilly was with me this morning, to invite me to dine at Kensington on Sunday with Lord Mountjoy, who goes soon for Ireland.  Your late Chief-Justice Broderick[14] is here, and they say violent as a tiger.  How is party among you at Wexford?  Are the majority of ladies for the late or present Ministry?  Write me Wexford news, and love Presto, because he is a good boy.

14.  Although it was shaving-day, I walked to Chelsea, and was there by nine this morning; and the Dean of Carlisle and I crossed the water to Battersea, and went in his chariot to Greenwich, where we dined at Dr. Gastrell’s, and passed the afternoon at Lewisham, at the Dean of Canterbury’s;[15] and there I saw Moll Stanhope,[16] who is grown monstrously tall, but not so handsome as formerly.  It is the first little rambling journey I have had this summer about London, and they are the agreeablest pastimes one can have, in a friend’s coach, and to good company.  Bank Stock is fallen three or four per cent. by the whispers about the town of the Queen’s being ill, who is however very well.

15.  How many books have you carried with you to Wexford?  What, not one single book?  Oh, but your time will be so taken up; and you can borrow of the parson.  I dined to-day with Sir Andrew Fountaine and Dilly at Kensington with Lord Mountjoy; and in the afternoon Stratford came there, and told me my two hundred pounds were paid at last; so that business is over, and I am at ease about it; and I wish all your money was in the Bank too.  I will have my other hundred pounds there, that is in Hawkshaw’s hands.  Have you had the interest of it paid yet?  I ordered Parvisol to do it.  What makes Presto write so crooked?  I will answer your letter to-morrow, and send it on Tuesday.  Here’s hot weather come again, yesterday and to-day:  fine drinking waters now.  We had a sad pert dull parson at Kensington to-day.  I almost repent my coming to town; I want the walks I had.

16.  I dined in the City to-day with a hedge[17] acquaintance, and the day passed without any consequence.  I will answer your letter to-morrow.