I heard last night the council had sat twice yesterday about information given of a design the apprentices had to rise, and that some were got together, but all is very quiet; and my intelligence must ever be late, for I write in the morning, and I see nobody but in the afternoon. My Lord Shaftesbury says, he never had anything to do with Mr. Montague, nor never will. His son has not much to do, for he is every night in Hyde Park, with his wife, and two dirty men at the other end of the coach. My Lady Lauderdale, who was ill of the gout at Whitehall, was on Sunday sent for to Ham in great haste to her Lord, who was fallen into a fit of an apoplexy. If he dies, that will be a loss to Scotland and England.
I am yours very affectionately,
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE TO MR. SIDNEY.
I have had two letters from you since my coming hither, which was about a fortnight ago; but nothing in them that may not be answered from this place, which I am very constant to, and like to be in such weather as I meet here. I wish you
