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Jacobite friends to whom I wrote asking for news. He says
that the new knight has no great cause for enjoyment in his
dignity and possessions, because, not only do the Jacobite
gentry turn their backs upon him when they meet him in
the town, but the better class of Whigs hold altogether
aloof from him, regarding his elevation at the expense of
his wife’s kinsman to be disgraceful, although of course
they have no idea of the evil plot by which he brought
about my ruin. ‘There is great pity expressed for his wife,
who has not once stirred beyond the grounds at Lynnwood
since he took her there, and who is, they say, a shadow of
her former self. Ciceley, he hears, is well. That cub of
a son is in London, and there are reports that he is very
wild, and puts his father to much cost. As to the man
himself, they say he is surrounded by the lowest knaves,
and it is rumoured that he has taken to drink for want of
better company. It is some comfort to me to think, that
although the villain has my estates he is getting no enjoy-
ment out of them. However, I hope some day to have a
reckoning with him. ‘he Stuarts must come to their own
sooner or later, until then I am content to rest quietly here
in Sweden.”