but as my misfortunes and my family have encreased I cannot go beyond what was then allowed. I have written to him to observe the same rule as in Cooper's time. If I could make it better I would, but, as the world goes, we must each of us submit to the present necessity, and consider one another in our turns as well as we can, with the best husbandry; you are and shall ever be sure of me to the very utmost of my power; all that I have to ask of you in return, is to consider with the same tenderness my circumstances till I have more in my power, and whenever that happens, I will give you leave to reproach me, if your condition should not mend whenever mine does. I have already thanked you for the plan you sent me, and gave you my reflexions upon the performance, which I hope you received.

Pray tell Madam Lyndsey that I rejoice at her resurrection; she has been dead and buried with us above these twelve months, and I have been very angry with her brother, who is a principal person in this part of the world, for not going into mourning for her, for which I shall beg his pardon. I likewise congratulate the city of Bath for continuing under the direction of its old governour, whom our newspapers had sent of a long journey into the other world. Care shall be taken to equip my god-daughter as you desire with the very first opportunity of sending from hence.

Believe me, my dear brother, there is nothing in my power but shall be always as much as I am yours. My wife is your humble servant.

LANSDOWN.

It is certain that Col. Granville not only lost immensely by his own attachment to the Stuarts, but that his brother, Lord