528 THE WENTWORTH PAPERS.
if I shou'd be oblig'd to go to my own affairs in those parts it will be towards Christmas by which time your Lordship will certainly be remov'd to London. I am determin'd how- ever to pay my respects to you there next year if I am able ; I think of making my tour as soon as the Parliament is up, and I don't see anything likely to happen which shou'd occasion a long sessions.
My wife desires to be joyn'd with me in making our Com- pliments to my Lady Strafford Lord Wentworth and the young Ladies and I will trouble your Lordship no further but to beg leave to assure you that I am with the utmost sincerity and respect,
Your Lordship's most faithful! and obedient servant
BATHURST.*
��[Lady Lucy Wentworth.]
Loi^DON, /ameary 8, 1737. Dear Papa,
.... My mama has been so good to give me leave to goe to the Opera to night with Lady Anne. 'Tis to be a new one call'd Meropy, but the foolish Buffo's are to be left out which I am very glad of, but am sorry they are to have five hundred pound a piece for acting that silly stuf two nights, if one may beleive Mr. Hamilton. The Opera is to be heard but once for he says 'tis the worst that ever was composed. Lady Anne was last wensday at Mr. Hendle's house and she likes the new man much better then Conte'
- As this is the last letter from Lord Bathurst in the collection, we
append to it a few remarks upon him by his brother Benjamin, addressed to Lord Strafford on July 26, 1738 ; —
" The account you send me of my brother does not in the least surprize me, he has more than once in my opinion quitted his best friends for those I think very indifferent. He fly's about in life as in his journys, still persueing something new, without taking the least delight in any thing he once has known. My lord Bullingbrook himself would long since have been discarded for a Cornbury or a Lyttleton, did he not become new to him by his frequent trips into France and his changes in politics."
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