I cant leave Paris, without gratefully acknoledging; & expressing my sincere thanks for your very kind attention shewn me since my residence here—

The very hospitable reception & entertainment I have so frequently experienced at Passy, I hope ever to remember as I ought—added to which the very friendly part you have been pleased to take in my interest, in your mediation with our Ambassador his Grace of Dorset—& your Letters to England, in my favor, I wish I could dare expect any other return than the satisfaction I know you receive from the reflection of acts of goodness—fortunately, my Dear F. such a disposition carrys its reward with it—In my amusments. altho I have had the honner to have seen many here, yet for the tout ensemble, I have not met with any equal to the two lovely fair ones, Made: M: & Made: De V. to whom you introduced me—but to whom, in addition to all my other defects, I must have appeared too insignificant & unworthy from my unfortunate ignorance of their language—much have I felt—& much have I wished to express—but confined to so few words, how could I with any degree of delicacy attempt to teize them with my tres mauvaise francoise—I could not descend to it—altho very happy should I think myself, to bestow all the labour of my head, heart & hands, in attempting to make happy either of them—I must pray you to make my hearty thanks for the condescention they have shewn me—& assure them I am not altogether so stupid in England—

I am to see his Grace of Dorset tomorrow forenoon, I receive a Letter from him to England—for which I must again thank you—.

I am not yet favored with your commands for England—I shall leave Paris Monday the 21st. at noon—

I could not but postpone my journey a few days, to enjoy the pleasing honour of an Evening at Lucienne; where the smiles & good humour of the lovely priestess of that hallowed place, banished every restraint—& I left it with no little regret at midnight;—but least the pleasure might be too great while unalloyed, I caught on my return to Paris, a most abominable cold, which troubles me much, & will, I fear be my fellow traveller to England—

encore, une fois, adieu—avec beaucoup des remerciemens à vous, mon ami—

with my grateful respects to the venerable Dr, & best wishes to all your domestick circle I am with equal affection & esteem your oblidged friend & sert