he might be called, but call fomebody. As you make yourselves of more importance, you will be more confidered. Do not go away with any reason to tax yourselves with negligence. You are in a state in which nothing that can be done ought to be omitted. We now do right or wrong for a great stake. You may fend the children and nurses forward to-morrow, and go yourselves on Wednefday. Little things must not now be minded, and leaft of all muft you mind a little money. What the world has is to be fold, and to be enjoyed by those that will pay its price. Do not give Heberden a single guinea, and fubfcribe a hundred to keep out the French; we have an invafion more formidable, and an enemy lefs refiftible by power, and lefs avoidable by flight. I have now done my duty.

I am, dearest Lady,

Your, &c.

WHE

in Southwark, I directed him to watch all appearances with close attention, and bring me his obfervations. At his return he told me, that without previous intelligence he should not have discovered that Mr. Thrale had been lately ill.

It appears to me that Mr. Thrale's disorder, whether grumous or serous, must be cured by bleeding; and I would not have him begin a course of exercise without confiderable evacuation. To encrease the force of the blood, unless it be firft diluted and attenuated, may be dangerous. But the cafe is too important for my theory.

The weakness in my ankles left them for a day, but has now turned to a pain in my

toe,

toe, much like that at Brighthelmstone. It is not bad, nor much more than troublesome ; I hope it will not be greater, nor last long. You all go with the good wishes of, dear Madam,

Your, &c.

LETTER CCXII.

To Mrs. THRAL E.

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DEAR MADAM,

London, Oct. 8, 1779.

BEGIN to be frighted at your omiffion to write; do not torment me any longer, but let me know where you are, how you got thither, how you live there, and every thing elfe that one friend loves to know of another.

I will show you the way.

On Sunday the gout left my ankles, and I On went very commodioufly to church. Monday night I felt my feet uneasy. On Tuesday I was quite lame. That night I took an opiate, having firft taken phyfick and fasted. Towards morning on Wednesday the pain remitted.

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mitted.-Bozzy came to me, and much talk we had. I fafted another day; and on Wednesday night could walk tolerably. On Thursday, finding myself mending, I ventured on my dinner, which I think has a little interrupted my convalefcence. To-day I have again taken phyfick, and eaten only fome ftewed apples. I hope to ftarve it away. It is now no worse than it was at Brighthelmftone.

This, Madam, is the history of one of my toes; the history of my head would perhaps be much shorter. I thought it was the gout on Saturday. It has already loft me two dinners abroad, but then I have not been at much more charges, for I have eaten little at home.

Surely I fhall have a letter to-morrow.

I am, &c.

LETTER CCXIII.

Το Mrs.

THRA L E.

DEAR MADAM,

London, Oct. 11, 1779.

I THOUGHT it very long till I heard from you,

having sent a second letter to Tunbridge, which I believe you cannot have received. I do not fee why you should trouble yourself with physicians while Mr. Thrale grows better. Company and buftle will, I hope, complete his cure. Let him gallop over the Downs in the morning, call his friends about him to dinner, and frifk in the rooms at night, and outrun time and outface misfor

tune.

Notwithstanding all authorities against bleeding, Mr. Thrale bled himself well ten days ago.

You will lead a jolly life, and perhaps think little of me; but I have been invited twice to Mrs. Veley's converfation, but have not gone. The gout that was in

my

ankles when

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