night's time to take leave, pack up, and be gone. Some say he is gone to improve his interests in the north.
In Kent they had put my son Smith into your jury; he would have got out of it, but Spencer did it; he would not have been in for £2000. They that put him in did not know that he had any relation to you.
The news of the Duke's coming, by the declaration the King has put into the Gazette, is thought a little extraordinary by some. I wish you here with all my heart, for your own sake; and, because I believe I shall never see any other brother again, the more charity it is in you to be a little kind to
Yours most affectionately,
THE DUKE OF YORK TO MR. SIDNEY.
I received some days since yours of the 26th of the last month, in which you gave me an account how affairs stood where you are. I hope they will go as they should, and I am very confident his Majesty will do always what becomes him. At the distance I am from London, I can say little: I hope to be there very soon, expecting every mo-
