. Indeed
he could not be too cautious of giving offence to his lordship, who sometimes
made him feel the effects of that wrath which other people had kindled;
particularly, in consequence of a small adventure which happened about this very
period of time.
    A very agreeable, sprightly, good-natured young man, a near relation of my
lord, happening to be at our house one evening, when there was a fire in the
neighbourhood, we agreed to go and sup at a tavern, en famille; and having spent
the evening with great mirth and good humour, this young gentleman, who was
naturally facetious, in taking his leave, saluted us all round. My lord, who had
before entertained some jealousy of his kinsman, was very much provoked by this
trifling incident, but very prudently suppressed his displeasure till he
returned to his own house, where his rage co-operating with the Champagne he had
drank, inflamed him to such a degree of resolution, that he sprung upon the
innocent G-n, and collared him with great fury, though he was altogether
unconcerned in the cause of his indignation.
    This extravagant and frantic behaviour, added to the other grievances under
which I laboured, hastened my resolution of leaving him; and he to this day
blames his relation, as the immediate cause of my escape, whereas he ought to
place it to the account of his own madness and indiscretion. When I retired to
Park-street, he cautioned all my tradesmen (not even excepting my baker) against
giving me credit, assuring them that he would not pay any debts I should
contract; and the difficulties to which I was reduced, in consequence of this
charitable declaration, together with the reflection of what I had suffered, and
might undergo, from the caprice and barbarity of his disposition, affected my
health so much, that I was taken again ill, and my life thought in danger.
    My constitution, however, got the better of my distemper, and I was ordered
into the country by my physicians, for the benefit of the air; so that I found
myself under the necessity of keeping two houses, when I was little able to
support one, and set up my chariot, because I could not defray the expence of an
hackney coach; for I had as much credit given me as I ask'd for, notwithstanding
my lord's orders to the contrary.
    Having recruited my spirits in the country, I returned to town, and was
visited by my friends, who never forsook me in adversity, and in the summer
removed to an house in
