MOORE.
'TERRACE, PICCADILLY, OCT.

31,1815.
'I have not been able to ascertain precisely the time of duration of the stock-market; but I believe it is a good time for selling out, and I hope so.

First, because I shall see you; and, next, because I shall receive certain moneys on behalf of Lady B., the which will materially conduce to my comfort; I wanting (as the duns say) "to make up a sum." 'Yesterday I dined out with a large-ish party, where were Sheridan and Colman, Harry Harris, of C.G., and his brother, Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Ds.

Kinnaird, and others of note and notoriety.

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, * then altogethery, then inarticulate, and then drunk.