August 21.--

Received a letter from Mr. Emmerson which tells me that Lord Radstock

died yesterday. He was the best friend I have met with. Though he

possessed too much simple-heartedness to be a fashionable friend or

hypocrite, yet it often led him to take hypocrites for honest friends

and to take an honest man for a hypocrite.

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