of his own gentlemen, in the third act.  I saw him, without any difficulty, from the Duchess of Grafton’s box.  He is extremely slender, and looks many years older than he is:  in short, I suppose it is his manner with which every mortal is captivated, for though he is well enough for a man, he is far from having any thing striking in his person.  To-day (this is Tuesday) there was a drawing-room at Leicester-house, and to-night there is a subscription ball for him at Carlisle-house, Soho, made chiefly by the Dukes of Devonshire and Grafton.  I was invited to be of it, but not having been to wait on him, did not think it Civil to meet him there.  The Court, by accident or design, had forgot to have a bill passed for naturalizing him.  The Duke of Grafton Undertook it, on which they adopted it, and the Duke of Bedford moved it; but the Prince sent word to the Duke of Grafton, that he should not have liked the compliment half so well, if he had not owed it to his grace.  You may judge how he will report of us at his return!

With regard to your behaviour to Wilkes,(446) I think you observed the just medium:  I have not heard it mentioned:  if they should choose to blame it, it will not be to me, known as your friend and no friend of theirs.  They very likely may say that you did too much, though the Duke of Bedford did ten times more.  Churchill has published a new satire, called “The Duellist,"(447) the finest and bitterest of his works.  The poetry is glorious; some lines on Lord Holland, hemlock:  charming abuse on that scurrilous mortal, Bishop Warburton:  an ill-drawn, though deserved, character of Sandwich; and one, as much deserved, and better, of Norton.

Wednesday, after dinner.

The Lord knows when this letter will be finished; I have been writing it this week, and believe I shall continue it till old Monin sets out.  Encore, the Prince of Brunswick.  At the ball, at Buckingham house, on Monday:  it had begun two hours before he arrived.  Except the King’s and Queen’s servants, nobody was there but the dukes of Marlborough and Ancaster, and Lord Bute’s two daughters.  No supper.  On Sunday evening the Prince had been to Newcastle-house, to visit the Duchess.  His speech to the Duke of Bedford, at first, was by no means so strong as they gave it out; he only said, “Milord, nous avons fait deux m`etiers bien diff`erens; le v`otre a `et`e le plus agr`eable:  j’ai fait couler du sang, vous l’avez fait cesser.”  His whole behaviour, so much `a la minorit`e, makes this much more probable.  His Princess thoroughly, agrees with him.  When Mr. Grenville objected to the greatness of her fortune, the King said, “Oh! it will not be opposed, for Augusta is in the opposition.”