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Q. H. the 20th june 1780.

My dear Lady Charlotte Finch. Ever since the return of Compton have i been employed in finding time to answer Your letter. inclination there was sufficient but my Mornings being chiefly taken up with receiving Young people & providing them with breakfast and other accidental calls i have never been able to find a moment for this agreeable employment. Our times at present seem to be quiet and peaceable and indeed have been so ever since Our parting, the King's Leve' Was very full last Wednesday, & Our Thursdays Court like a Birth day owing to the long expected & glorious knews from Sr/ Henry Clinton, which came so a propos, that one must be totally void of all underline feeling /underline if one does not very particularly discover the hand of underline Providence /underline in Our favour at this critical moment, the foreign:French Feu de joie /foreign upon the occasion, was heard during our stay in the drawing Room, and contributed greatly to the underline Brilliancy /underline of the different countenances, and i find that in general this Victory hath enlivened almost every body, and that no more dejected Spirits are to be met with