FROM DR. ARBUTHNOT.
THIS serves for an envelope to the enclosed; for I cannot tell whether you care to hear from any of your friends on this side. In your last, I think, you desired me to let you alone to enjoy your own spleen. Can you purchase your fifty pounds a year in Wales as yet? I can tell you, beforehand, Lewis scorns to live with you there. He keeps company with the greatest, and is principal governor in many families. I have been in France; six weeks at Paris, and as much at Rouen; where, I can assure you, I hardly heard a word of news or politicks, except a little clutter about sending some impertinent presidents du parliament to prison, that had the impudence to talk for the laws and liberties of their country. I was asked for monsieur Swift by many people, I can assure you; and particularly by the duke d'Aumont. I was respectfully and kindly treated by many folks, and even by the great Mr. Laws[1]. Amongst other things, I had the honour to carry an Irish lady[2] to court, that was admired beyond
- ↑ The contrivers of the Mississippi scheme.
- ↑ The celebrated beauty miss Nelly Bennet, on whom these lines were written:
For when as Nelly came to France,
(Invited by her cousins)
Across the Thuilleries, each glance
Killed Frenchmen by whole dozens.
