the _Palace-yard_, a kind friend in _Charles-street_, or a pretty intimate acquaintance near the _Bowling-Alley_, may help to pass away some leisure hours when the _Abbey_ is lock’d up; however that is not sufficient to tempt a man to _C-fa-ut_ it all ones life-time. I ever found an inbred aversion to _Ireland_, and your news gives me more convincing reasons why I should not affect ’em: for to be stripp’d by some, and stripp’d by others, would of itself give a man an unfavourable Impression of such people. As for the freedom you take in diverting yourself at my expence, I easily pass it by: but your censoriousness scandalizes me, when so many very deserving persons of all ranks, sexes and qualities, as are my good friends and benefactors, are made the subject of your raillery. I do not want to be spiritualis’d to see thro’ your banter, when you make me even superior to _Orpheus_ and _Arion_; I smell what you wou’d be at, by being follow’d by tigers, blocks and stones: but it is lucky enough for you, that you are out of their reach: as for the article of _Bavaria_, I can say but little to it more than I thought the time was come, when the _Israelites_ should spoil the _Egyptians_. You have such continual couriers from these parts, that you cannot be long ignorant of the minutest springs by which all affairs are kept in motion. To me they seem everywhere to be at much the same rate, like a horse in a mill, ’tis no matter who drives him. I thank you for your kind offer, in providing me lodgings; but I have so many of my friends gone there of late, that I shall unwillingly be from them: however, I shall always study to improve your good opinion, and continue theirs. If any accident calls me to your parts about that time, I shall gladly assist at the king of _France_’s entry; for doubtless it will be done with a most noble solemnity, and every way answerable to the character of such a monarch. But as time is more precious here than in your country, I must beg you to excuse me, for I am just sent for to the tavern. _Adieu._ _Seignior_ NICHOLA _to Mr._ BUCKLY, _at the_ Swan _Coffee-House near_ Bloomsbury.