26.  Mr. Lewis and I dined with a friend of his, and unexpectedly there dined with us an Irish knight, one Sir John St. Leger,[12] who follows the law here, but at a great distance:  he was so pert, I was forced to take him down more than once.  I saw to-day the Pope, and Devil, and the other figures of cardinals, etc., fifteen in all, which have made such a noise.  I have put an under-strapper upon writing a twopenny pamphlet[13] to give an account of the whole design.  My large pamphlet[14] will be published to-morrow; copies are sent to the great men this night.  Domville[15] is come home from his travels; I am vexed at it:  I have not seen him yet; I design to present him to all the great men.

27.  Domville came to me this morning, and we dined at Pontack’s, and were all day together, till six this evening:  he is perfectly as fine a gentleman as I know; he set me down at Lord Treasurer’s, with whom I stayed about an hour, till Monsieur Buys, the Dutch Envoy, came to him about business.  My Lord Treasurer is pretty well, but stiff in the hips with the remains of the rheumatism.  I am to bring Domville to my Lord Harley in a day or two.  It was the dirtiest rainy day that ever I saw.  The pamphlet is published; Lord Treasurer had it by him on the table, and was asking me about the mottoes in the title-page; he gave me one of them himself.[16] I must send you the pamphlet, if I can.

28.  Mrs. Van sent to me to dine with her to-day, because some ladies of my acquaintance were to be there; and there I dined.  I was this morning to return Domville his visit, and went to visit Mrs. Masham, who was not within.  I am turned out of my lodging by my landlady:  it seems her husband and her son are coming home; but I have taken another lodging hard by, in Leicester Fields.  I presented Mr. Domville to Mr. Lewis and Mr. Prior this morning.  Prior and I are called the two Sosias,[17] in a Whig newspaper.  Sosias, can you read it?  The pamphlet begins to make a noise:  I was asked by several whether I had seen it, and they advised me to read it, for it was something very extraordinary.  I shall be suspected; and it will have several paltry answers.  It must take its fate, as Savage[18] said of his sermon that he preached at Farnham on Sir William Temple’s death.  Domville saw Savage in Italy, and says he is a coxcomb, and half mad:  he goes in red, and with yellow waistcoats, and was at ceremony kneeling to the Pope on a Palm Sunday, which is much more than kissing his toe; and I believe it will ruin him here when ’tis told.  I’ll answer your letter in my new lodgings:  I have hardly room; I must borrow from the other side.

29.  New lodgings.  My printer came this morning to tell me he must immediately print a second edition,[19] and Lord Treasurer made one or two small additions:  they must work day and night to have it out on Saturday; they sold a thousand in two days.  Our Society met to-day; nine of us were present:  we dined at our brother Bathurst’s.[20] We made several regulations, and have chosen three new members, Lord Orrery,[21] Jack Hill, who is Mrs. Masham’s brother, he that lately miscarried in the expedition to Quebec, and one Colonel Disney.[22]—­We have taken a room in a house near St. James’s to meet in.  I left them early about correcting the pamphlet, etc., and am now got home, etc.