delight to help the distressed; and there cannot be a greater object than this good lady, who deserves pity. Pray, dear friend, stay here; and do not believe us all alike, to throw away good advice, and despise every body's understanding but their own. I could say a great deal upon the subject, but I must go to her, for she is not well. This comes to you by a safe hand, so that neither of us need be in any pain about it.
My lord and brother are in the country. My sister and girls are your humble servants.
FROM ERASMUS LEWIS, ESQ.
I HAVE yours of the twenty-seventh. I write this in the morning, for I go in the evening to Kensington. If I am well received, I will continue my homage; if not, they shall hear of me no more. Where shall I write to you again? for I cannot stir from hence till the sixteenth of August at soonest. Nothing could please me more than to pass a few months with you at Abercothy[1]; but I am yet uncertain whether I shall go there at all. All I am sure of is, that I will go out of town to some place for some time; first to the Bath, for I cannot bear staying in this room. I want physick to help my digestion of these things, though the 'squire[2] is
- ↑ In Caermarthenshire, of which county Mr. Lewis was a native.
- ↑ William Bromley, esq., secretary of state.
