[Lady Jane, and Miss Arabella, appear in Miss Edgeworth's "Patronage."] But I must stop.

This rambling talk has been scrawled in the middle of haranguing, squabbling, swearing, and crying.

Since I began it I have taxed four bills, taken forty depositions, and rated several perjured witnesses.
Ever yours T.B.M.
To Hannah and Margaret Macaulay.
London: June 7, 1831.
Yesterday I dined at Marshall's, and was almost consoled for not meeting Ramohun Roy by a very pleasant party.

The great sight was the two wits, Rogers and Sydney Smith.

Singly I have often seen them; but to see them both together was a novelty, and a novelty not the less curious because their mutual hostility is well known, and the hard hits which they have given to each other are in everybody's mouth.