chateau de rivieres.

Your welcome letter has just now reached me. – May your conjugal felicity be equal to that which I once experienced, and may its duration be more permanent! Be assured, my dear Charles, that no one upon earth participates more feelingly in your happiness than myself. I must make nearly the same apology as you have done, for a short letter; namely, preparation for a journey. We are going, in a few hours, to accompany the Comte de Rivieres and his lady, who were married last week, to a beautiful seat he has purchased near Languedoc, where we think of staying a few weeks, after which we shall begin to prepare for embarking for England, and hope to be in Yorkshire a few days after your arrival there./

My sister and Augustus join me in cordial congratulations to Mrs. Montgomery, who, I hope, will remember that her friend Harriet is going to be immersed in scenes of festivity and dissipation, which will deprive her of leisure for any mental employment. This must plead her apology, if she writes no more during the rest of her stay, as I really fear it will not be in her power. Fitzmaurice says, he envies you for having arrived at the summit of human bliss – matrimony, so long before him; but he will exert all his rhetorical powers upon Harriet, to persuade her to facilitate matters, that he may follow your example in a short time.