I write this post to Lord Castle-Cary, and give him that detail he could not obtain from you. His long friendship for my Lord Ossory persuades him, that the usage of which I complain, cannot unpardonable. I flatter myself, he will judge otherwise; he shall no longer, at least, have an excuse for tiring me with commonplace arguments. To tell you the truth, my dear Henrietta, I would on no account, that any other person should see this history; it appears to me a disagreeable circumstance to have one, and if I was to think seriously, I should probably destroy this. I spent part of the night in writing it; I cannot express to you how much this employment has disordered me. As soon as Lord Castle-Cary has read this pacquet, do me the favour to burn it. I cannot answer your letter; you were very gay, my dear, when you wrote it; I am not enough so at present to reply.

To Lord Castle-Cary.

No, my Lord, I have not that spirit of obstinacy, which could lead me to afflict myself, that another may share in my pains; but I have that noble firmness, which distinguishes generous minds from those mean souls, always ready to receive any impression you wish to give them. Determined in my resolutions by unalterable principles, I am capable of those exalted efforts which honour demands; and what I believe my duty, shall always regulate my conduct, and my ideas of happiness. He has wronged you, you say, he is sensible of it, he returns; you reject his submissions: this proceeding is inconsistent with your character: you still love; you are still beloved; you ought to pardon. And why ought I, my Lord? You had a quarrel with Mr. Sternill, he had insulted you in a moment of madness, he acknowledged his fault, he offered you all the satisfaction in his power; you knew he loved you: notwithstanding this, you refused to hear him; nothing could prevail on you to consent to an accommodation: and for a doubtful jest, a word escaped in the heat of a foolish dispute, you stretched dead at your feet him, whom you had an hundred times called by the tender name of friend.