As Windsor is so charming, and particularly as you have got so agreeable a new neighbour at Frogmore, to be sure you cannot wish to have the prohibition taken off on your coming to Strawberry Hill.  However, as I am an admirable Christian, and as you seem to repent of your errors, I will give you leave to be so happy as to come to me when you like, though I would advise it to be after you have been at Roel,(1437) winch you would not be able to bear after my paradise.  I have told you a vast deal of something or other, which you will scarce be able to read; for now Mr. Chute has the gout, he keeps himself very low and lives upon very thin ink.  My compliments to all your people.  Yours ever.

(1434) John Chute, Esq. of the Vine of Hampshire.

(1435) Lord Anson married, on the 25th of April, Lady Elizabeth Yorke, Lord Chancellor Hardwicke’s eldest daughter, an ingenious woman and a poetess.  She died without issue in 1760.-E.

(1436) Walpole gives the following account of this picture, in his description of Houghton:- “Meleager and Atalanta, a cartoon, by Rubens, larger than life; brought out of Flanders by Wade:  it being designed for tapestry, all the weapons are in the left hand of the figure.  For the story, see Ovid’s Metamorphoses, lib. 3.  When General Wade built his house in Burlington Garden, Lord Burlington gave the design for it."-E

(1437) A house of Mr. Montagu’s in Gloucestershire.

550 Letter 252
To George Montagu, Esq. 
Arlington Street, May 26, 1748.

Good-by to YOU!  I am going to my Roel too.  I was there yesterday to dine, and it looked so delightful, think what you will, that I shall go there to-morrow to settle, and shall leave this odious town to the * * *, to the regency, and the dowagers; to my lady Townshend, who is not going to Windsor, to old Cobham, who is not going out of the world yet, and to the Duchess of Richmond, who does not -,go out with her twenty-fifth pregnancy:  I shall leave too more disagreeable Ranelagh, which is so crowded, that going there t’other night in a string of coaches we had a stop of six-and-thirty Minutes.  Princess Emily, finding no marriage articles for her settled at the congress, has at last determined to be old and out of danger; and has accordingly ventured to Ranelagh to the great improvement of the pleasures of the place.  The Prince has given a silver cup to be rowed for, which carried every body up the Thames. and afterwards there was a great ball at Carlton house.  There have two good events happened at that court:  the town was alarmed t’other morning by the firing of guns, which proved to be only from a large merchantman come into the river.  The city construed it into the King’s return, and the peace broke; but Chancellor Bootle and the Bishop of Oxford, who loves a tabour next to promoting the cause of it, concluded the Princess was brought to bed, and went to court upon it.  Bootle, finding the Princess dressed,