When I wrote to you the other day, I was in truthin high irritation, & with ample cause. — Nay, I know not whether I ought to be quite tranquil now, for I have had more trouble in restoring peacethan I ever intended to submit to. — This Regi::nald has a proud spirit of his own! — A spirittoo, resulting from a fancied sense of superior In::tegrity which is peculiarly insolent. — I shallnot easily forgive him I aſsure you. He was ac::tually on the point of leaving Churchill! — I had scarcely concluded my last, when Wilson broughtme word of it. — I found therefore that somethingmust be done, for I did not chuse to have mycharacter at the mercy of a Man whose paſsionswere so violent & resentful. —. ^{It would}T^o have been trifling with my reputation, to allow of his departing withsuch an impreſsion in my disfavour; – in thislight, condescension was neceſsary. —

I sent Wilson to say that I desired to