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SIR,

HAVE yours of the twenty-fifth. You judge very right; it is not the going out, but the manner, that enrages me. The queen has told all the lords the reasons of her parting with him, viz. that he neglected all business; that he was seldom to be understood; that when he did explain himself, she could not depend upon the truth of what he said; that he never came to her at the time she appointed; that he often came drunk; that lastly, to crown all, he behaved himself toward her with bad manners, indecency, and disrespect. Pudet hæc opprobria nobis, &c.

I am distracted with the thoughts of this, and the pride of the conqueror. I would give the world I could go out of town to morrow; but the secretary says, I must not go till he returns, which will not be till the sixteenth of August, or perhaps the twenty-third; but I am in hopes I may go toward Bath the sixteenth.

The runners are already employed to go to all the coffeehouses. They rail to the pit of Hell. I am ready to burst for want of vent.

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