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I perceive myself falling into the very error which I reprehend in you, that of affecting to treat your distresses lightly; but believe me, my Fanny, that I lay a restraint on myself, in doing so, and feel them not the less.—Chearfulness and dissipation are the only remedies for a wounded mind, and if I can make you smile, even at my folly, my end will be answered.
You will, I dare say, discover that this letter has been written at different

aeras—morning visitors are a pest that rages in all cities; but is, I think, more violent, here, than in any place I ever was in, except Bath.—There is some excuse for this intemperate desire of gadding, there, as the use of the waters forbids all sedentaty amusements; and a game of, Neighbour, I'm come to torment you, may be conducive to health—but here, without temptation or excuse, the ladies make it a rule to pass their mornings in any one's house but their own; and would almost persuade one that they can neither read, write, work, houswife, or pray.—
Exclusive of this grand mal, I like the people and country extremely—there is an air of freedom, chearfulness and affability that runs thro' all the better

sort of men and women, and inclines you to like them, even at first sight. Rien qui gene, rien serré—we may be allowed to speak of a people in this language, who seem to resemble the French more than any of their nearer neighbours.—The old Irish families stile themselves Milesians, from Milesius, a Spaniard, who brought over a colony of his countrymen to people the island.—But I should think, from their manners, as I hinted at before, that they were originally derived rather from the French—I hate all national reflections; but they seem not to have any thing of the Spanish character among them.
The court, which is called the Castle, here, is extremely agreeable, as well as brilliant, both in beauty, and finery—

it abounds particularly with the former—I think I never saw so many handsome women together in any place, as I have seen here, on a ball night.—Beauty is not, however, so general in this kingdom as in England: it is chiefly confined to the higher ranks of life; while there I have observed that it was most frequently met with in the middling and lower classes.—
I have run this letter into such an extravagant length, that tho' I am very well inclined to proceed in the