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 LETTERS OF LORD BATHURST. 52/

Adieu Aly Dear Lord and be assur'd that I am with the Utmost sincerity respect and affection &c.

��{Received October i8, 1736.] My Dear Lord,

I have omitted for some time to return your Lordship my thanks for your last obliging letter, having had company in the House with me and a good deal of business besides. It gave me great satisfaction to find that your Lordship was so far recouver'd ; but I tremble to think of the strange way of managing yourself, to bath in the sea contrary to the advise of your Phisitian, and when your blood was so much disorder'd that you found you wanted a fire when other people complain'd of heat ; to travell about afterwards with a violent looseness upon you, to stop that all at once without any pre- caution ; a thing which has kill'd a hundred men, and you come off with a fitt of the Gout for 24 hours. Indeed My Lord you have too good a Constitution to be thrown away at this rate. You want nothing but to rectifie your Blood after having been poison'd by Ward's Arsenick, and you have at least 10 years to come of youth and Vigour, Now what I wou'd beg of your Lordship is this ; to leave the Country and come up to town, unless you find you are perfectly recouver'd, and then to put your self into the hands of Dr. Burton, who is both an understanding man and an honest man ; I dare answer for it that he wou'd sett you up in as good order as you ever were in your life, and then for God's sake resolve never to meddle with Quacks again as long as you live. I hope your Lordship will forgive me for pretending to give you advise, I wou'd not be so bold upon any other occasion ; if I err, it is in thinking your health of greater consequence than you doe your self, and as I really think I have a great concern in it, as well as every body else must have who has the honour to know you, I can't forgive you for managing it so ill.

I wish I cou'd have the pleasure of waiting on you at Wentworth Castle but I can't at present stirr from hence and

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