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 for, with all these inundations, it has not been cold. God bless you! [Aug. 1, 1766.]  —Poor Harte is in a miserable condition, is paralyzed in his left side, and can hardly speak intelligibly. I was with him yesterday. He inquired after you with great affection, and was in the utmost concern when I showed him your letter. My own health is, as it has been ever since I was here last year. I am neither well nor ill, but unwell. I have, in a manner, lost the use of my legs; for though I can make a shift to crawl upon even ground for a quarter of an hour, I cannot go up or down stairs, unless supported by a servant. God bless and grant you a speedy recovery! [Oct. 17, 1768.]  Here end the letters to Mr. Stanhope, as he died the 16th of November following. To Mrs. Stanhope, then at Paris.

in my eyes obliges me to use another hand than my own to acknowledge the receipt of your letter from Avignon, of the 27th past.
 * —A troublesome and painful inflammation

I am extremely surprised that Mrs. du Bouchet should have any objection to the manner in which