Saturday night Sept: r 15. 1/2 after 10. 1781

Arrived here a little before dinner L d Chatham,

his brother Will Pitt, & Prat, L d Camden's Son, member for Bath. I find they had none of them

been ever here before Do you know L d

Chatham? In his appearance upon the whole he puts me in mind of

Danl Parker Coke: but he has his father's Roman nose, and if wants

should concur to make him have a good opinion of himself,

will soon I dare say acquire his commanding manner: at present one

sees little more than a kind of reserve, temper'd with

mildness, but clouded with a little dash of bashfulness. Will Pitt, you know

for certain: in his conversation there is nothing of the orator: nothing

of that hauteur & suffisance one would expect: on the

contrary he seems very good natured and a little raw. I was monstrously

frightened at him: but when I came to talk with him he seemed frightened

at me: so that if any thing should happen to jumble us together, we

may perhaps be good pax which however is not very likely; for I don't know

very well what ideas we are likely to have in common. After beating Miss

Vernon I have just been beating him at Chess: an notorious conquest, as he

is scarce so much in my hands as I am in yours. Ernest and the rest of the

people have been playing at Crown Whist. Supper being announced I stole up

here.

Ernest it seems is the Saxon Minister: an honest good humoured kind

of man. I find it necessary to rise before 6, and for that purpose to go to

bed by 11. I lie on straw. Prat has more distance and more

suffisance than either of the others: yet there is a sort of

giggishness about them too: he puts me in mind of a young

Jew broker in the city. About an hour after dinner passes now

quite happily; as I have established a habit of

accompanying Lady S. on the harpsichord: and she is pleased with it. She