ston's money, to pay some debts in London; I desire you will pay him fifty pounds, with the usual exchange, at twenty days sights or later, if it be inconvenient.
FROM ERASMUS LEWIS, ESQ.
I NEVER differed from you in opinion, in any point so much, as in your proposal to accommodate matters between the dragon and his quondam friends. I will venture to go so far with you, as to say he contributed to his own disgrace, by his petitesses, more than they did, or ever had it in their power to do. But since they would admit of no terms of accommodation, when he offered to serve them in their own way, I had rather see his dead carcase, than that he should now tamely submit to those, who have loaded him with all the obloquy malice could suggest, and tongues utter. Have not Chartres[1], Brinsden[2], and all the runners, been employed to call him dog, villain, sot, and worthless? And shall he, after this, join them? To what end? I have great tenderness for lady [3], and think her best way is
- ↑ The infamous colonel Chartres, whose character and epitaph may be found in the works of Mr. Pope.
- ↑ He is said, by Mr. Boyer, in Political State, vol. III, for Jan. 1711-12, p. 52, to have been an oculist, and a private agent of lord Bolingbroke; and to have been employed by the government, in Jan. 1711-12, to attend on prince Eugene, when his highness arrived in England, in the beginning of that month.
- ↑ Masham.
