I would
not by any means, Dear Sir, have you
disquieted by any Clash from abroad,
or at home, about your Poor Cousin
Peggie, who, poor Thing, is greatly
to be pitied, having many Things
laid to her Charge, from which,
on Account of her unhappy, &and
(as she says) unchosen Situation,
she has it not in her Power to
exculpate herself. Disagreeable
things put upon her continual-
ly, &and bear them, alas! She tells us,
she must, for the present at least.
You will pardon me; but, to com-
pare small things with Great,
poor Peggie’s Circumstances put me 1900 (1900)
me very much in Mind of
Charles the 2d’s ^Situation in Scotland.
He was watched, he was baited,
he was driven. — Have Com-
passion then on poor Cousin
Peggie, &and believe not every
Report, tho’though Appearances,
she confesses, may be some
Times against her, &and these
magnified in every Respect
to her Disadvantage. She
wishes &and intreatsentreats your selfyourself
&and Family to believe her stea-
dy &and unalterable. What sig-
nifies, what Miss this, or
Miss t’the other, may say, thro’through
Vanity, or Jealousy, or really
through Ignorance of Causes?
— Mr ——[Wag]staffe &and his Friend
were pure well not long ago.