account for her Ladyship's conduct. — Langford appeared so exactly the place for her in every respect, as well fromthe elegant & expensive stile of Living there, as from herparticular attachment to M^rs . Manwaring, that I was very far from expecting so speedy a distinction, tho' I always imagined from her increasing friendship for ussince her Husband's death, that we should at some fu::ture period be obliged to receive her. — M^r . Vernon I think was a great deal too kind to her, when he wasin Staffordshire. Her behaviour to him, independantof her general Character, has been so inexcusably art::ful & ungenerous since our marriage was first in agi::tation, that no one leſs amiable & mild than himselfcould have overlooked it at all; & tho' as his Brother's widow & in narrow circumstances it was proper torender her pecuniary aſsistance, I cannot help thinkinghis preſsing invitation – to her to visit us at Churchillperfectly unneceſsary. ––– Disposed however as he al::ways is to think the best of every one, her display of