I fend all kind compliments to Sir C. D- and G-s. I love them from my foul.-If G-t is with you, him alfo.-I go on, not rapidly, but well enough with my uncle Toby's amours -There is no fitting, and cudgelling one's brains whilft the fun fhines bright -'twill be all over in fix or feven weeks, and there are difmal months enow after to endure fuffocation by a brimftone fire-fide.-If you can get to Scarborough, do.-A man who makes fix tons of alum a week, may do any thing-Lord Granby is to be therewhat a temptation!

Yours affectionately,

L. STERNE

LETTER L.

I

TO THE SAME.

Coxwould-Thursday. [Sept. 1764.]

MY DEAR COUSIN,

AM but this moment returned from Scarborough, where I have been drinking the waters ever fince the races, and have received marvellous ftrength, had I not debilitated it as faft as I got it, by playing the good fellow with Lord Granby and Co. too much. I rejoice you have been encamp'd at Harrowgate, from which, by now, I fuppofe you are decamp'd-otherwife as idle a beaft as I have been, I would have facrificed a few days to the god of laughter with you and your jolly fet. I have done nothing good that I know of, fince I left you, except paying off your guinea and a half to Kin my way thro' York hither—I must

try now and do better-Go on, and pro

fper for a month.

Your affectionate

L. STERNE,

LETTER LI.

TO MR. FOLEY, AT PARIS.

York, September 29, 1764.

I

MY DEAR FRIEND,

's

HAVING just had the honour of a letter from Mifs Tuting, full of the acknowledgments of your attention and kind fervices to her; I will not believe thefe arose from the D. of A letters, nor mine. Surely he needed no recommendation-the trueft and most honest compliment I can pay you, is to fay they came from your own good heart, only you was introduced to the objectfor the reft follow'd in courfe-However let me caft in my mite of thanks to the treasury which belongs to good-natured actions. I have been with Lord G-y

these three weeks at Scarborough-the pleasures of which I found fomewhat more exalted than thofe of Bagnieres laft year. I am now returned to my Philofophical Hut to finish Triftram, which I calculate will be ready for the world about Christmas, at which time I decamp from hence, and fix my headquarters at London for the winter-unlefs my cough pufhes me forwards to your Metropolis-or that I can perfuade fome gros my Lord to take a trip to you -I'll try if I can make him relish the joys of the Tuilleries, Opera Comique, &c.

I had this week a letter from Mrs.

Sterne from Montauban, in which the tells me she has occafion for fifty pounds immediately-Will you fend an order to your correfpondent at Montauban to pay her fo much cash-and I will in three weeks fend as much to Becket-But as her purfe is low, for God's fake write directly. Now you must do fomething equally effential-to rectify a mistake in the mind of your correfpondent there, who it feems gave her a hint not long

ago, "that she was feparated from me for life."-Now as this is not true in the first place, and may give a disadvantageous impreffion of her to thofe fhe lives amongft-'twould be unmerciful to let her, or my daughter, fuffer by it; fo do be fo good as to undeceive him—for in a year or two fhe propofes (and indeed I expect it with impatience from her) to rejoin me and tell them I have all the confidence in the world fhe will not spend more than I can afford, and I only mentioned two hundred guineas a year -because 'twas right to name fome certain fum, for which I begged you to give her credit. I write to you of all my moft intimate concerns, as to a brother; fo excufe me, dear Foley. God blefs you-Believe me

Yours affectionately,

L. STERNE.

Compliments to Mr. Panchaud,

D'Holbach, &c.