maids.  The Duke of Ormond was there helping to put out the fire.  Brother Wyndham gave 6,000 pounds but a few months ago for that house, as he told me, and it was very richly furnished.  I shall know more particulars at night.  He married Lady Catherine Seymour, the Duke of Somerset’s daughter; you know her, I believe.—­At night.  Wyndham’s young child escaped very narrowly; Lady Catherine escaped barefoot; they all went to Northumberland House.  Mr. Brydges’s[16] house, at next door, is damaged much, and was like to be burnt.  Wyndham has lost above 10,000 pounds by this accident; his lady above a thousand pounds worth of clothes.  It was a terrible accident.  He was not at Court to-day.  I dined with Lord Masham.  The Queen was not at church.  Nite, MD.

3.  Pray tell Walls that I spoke to the Duke of Ormond and Mr. Southwell about his friend’s affair, who, I find, needed not me for a solicitor, for they both told me the thing would be done.  I likewise mentioned his own affair to Mr. Southwell, and I hope that will be done too, for Southwell seems to think it reasonable, and I will mind him of it again.  Tell him this nakedly.  You need not know the particulars.  They are secrets:  one of them is about Mrs. South having a pension; the other about his salary from the Government for the tithes of the park that lie in his parish, to be put upon the establishment, but oo must not know zees sings, zey are secrets; and we must keep them flom nauty dallars.  I dined in the City with my printer, with whom I had some small affair; but I have no large work on my hands now.  I was with Lord Treasurer this morning, and hat[17] care oo for zat?  Oo dined with the Dean to-day.  Monday is parson’s holiday, and oo lost oo money at cards and dice; ze Givars[18] device.  So I’ll go to bed.  Nite, my two deelest logues.

4.  I sat to-day with poor Mrs. Wesley, who made me dine with her.  She is much better than she was.  I heartily pray for her health, out of the entire love I bear to her worthy husband.  This day has passed very insignificantly.  But it is a great comfort to me now that I can come home and read, and have nothing upon my hands to write.  I was at Lord Masham’s to-night, and stayed there till one.  Lord Treasurer was there; but I thought, I thought he looked melancholy, just as he did at the beginning of the session, and he was not so merry as usual.  In short, the majority in the House of Lords is a very weak one:  and he has much ado to keep it up; and he is not able to make those removes he would, and oblige his friends; and I doubt too[19] he does not take care enough about it, or rather cannot do all himself, and will not employ others:  which is his great fault, as I have often told you.  ’Tis late.  Nite, MD.