I try to finish some writing, and then I walk and ride out till dinner-time, generally at seven.

In the evening I have written sometimes, but it certainly does one harm.

You see that there remains but little time for writing.
I am most happy to find that you are well; the papers, which don't know what to invent to lower the Funds, said that you had been unwell on the 10th, which, God be praised! is not at all true.
I pity poor Princess Augusta[29] from all my heart.

I am sure that if she had in proper time taken care of herself she might have lived to a great age.

I have not time to-day to write at any length on the politics of the day, but I am _far from thinking_ that the French _acted wisely_ in the Oriental affair.