to leave his Children so distreſsed, when he hadactually the Living of Chetwynde and two or three Curacies, and only four Children to provide for –. What would he have done if he had had ten, asmany people have?"

"He would have given them all a good Educationand have left them all equally poor."

"Well I do think there never was so lucky a Family. Sir George Fitzgibbon you know sentthe eldest Girl to India entirely at his own Expence, where they say she is most nobly mar::ried and the happiest Creature in the World — Lady Halifax you see has taken care of the young:est and treats her as if she were her Daughter; She does not go out witinto¹ Public with her to be sure; but then she is always present when herLadyship gives her Balls, and nothing can be kinder to her than Lady Halifax is; she wouldhave taken her to Cheltenham to [.]last² year, if therehad been room enough at the Lodgings, and there::fore I do not think that she can have anythingto complain of. Theren³ there are the two Sons;