50 To MARY BERRY 6 AUGUST 1789 Frederic Cavendish,26 similar legatees) he has given £500. This is so much to my mind, that I shall not haggle about the rest of the will.27 I am rejoiced that you do not go to York races.28 Whatever I do my­ self, I should not like to have the P[rince] of Wales29 have two or three wives.30 Believe me, who have some cause for knowing, there is nothing so transitory as the happiness of red liveries!31 It is not to fillu p the page that I now advert to the weather, which at last is become fine and tolerably warm; but I enjoy it, as it will fa­ vour your riding, and both I trust will give you full health and spirits by the ugly month's end. Your old rapacious landlord321 flatter myself will be reasonable, when it is in vain to be otherwise—I should not like the house by for you, though better than none. The per­ sonage that will gain most by your delay will be Tonton, whose long nose begins to recover its curled rotundity. It is the best-tempered quiet animal alive, which is candid in me to own, as he, as long as it is de-camp to the Duke of Cumberland he is mortified to find his purpose is but 1745-9- half executed if misbehaviour is not added 26. Lord Frederick Cavendish (1729- to privation' (MBJ i. 182-3). 1803), 3d son of 3d D. of Devonshire, was 28. 22-29 August 1789 (James Weatherby, the Duke of Cumberland's aide-de-camp in Racing Calendar . . . 1789, 1790, xvii. Germany, 1757, and one of his lords of the 94-8). Bedchamber ca 1757-65 (Court and City 29. George Augustus Frederick (1762- Register). He was also M.P. for Derbyshire, 1830), P. of Wales, later (1820) George IV, 1751, and for Derby 1754-80, and field- attended the races at York 24-29 Aug. (Ora­ marshal, 1796. In 1766, on inheriting the cle. Bell's New World 26 Aug.—1 Sept. estate of Park, he became 1789), and raced several horses. HW's neighbour. 30. The 'two' wives would be Mary and 27. Richard Owen Cambridge comments Agnes Berry, and 'three' would include on Gen. Fitzwilliam's will: 'General Fitz­ Mrs Fitzherbert, with whom the Prince william's will is a disgrace to misanthropy. went through a marriage ceremony in Some large and useless legacies to people 1785; see 'Mem. 1783-91,' sub 17, 22 Feb. who neither want nor will be thankful, 1786; 26, 30 April 1787. consume such a portion of his large wealth 31. HW's niece was unhappily married as would have made some others . . . com­ to the Duke of Gloucester, whose servants fortable. ... To Lord Fitz £500 a (and those of the Prince of Wales) wore red, year in Northamptonshire. His servant, the royal livery. Lady Almeria Carpenter Harper Tom Jones, residuary legatee, (1752-1809), Lady of the Bedchamber to above £40,000. He came to Lord Fitz ; the Duchess of Gloucester, was mistress to said he was overpowered; wished he had the Duke, by whom she had a daughter, had only a suitable provision; did not know born in 1781 (HW to Mann 28 March 1786; what to do with his fortune; had no friend; Violet Biddulph, The Three Ladies Walde­ begged his Lordship's protection; offered grave [1938], pp. 181-5; J°hn Lodge and all the books and pictures, and anything Mervyn Archdall, Peerage of Ireland, 1789, else his Lordship would accept. Lord iii. 94; Journal and Correspondence of Wil­ F said to me: If the General had liam Lord Auckland, ed. 3d Bn Auckland, known he would have behaved so, he would 1861-2, i. 463). not have left it him. I dare say if he looks 32. Henry Collingwood Selby. upon Richmond from his present situation,