ADAM severe on me and the rest that have betrayed Lord NORTH--a general confusion all round PITT--no one to defend us--VILLIERS grinned--GRAHAM simpered--MULGRAVE growled--by G--d I believe PITT enjoyed it--always pleased when his friends get into a scrape.--Mem. to give him a lecture upon that--MULGRAVE spoke at last--wish he'd held his tongue--SHERIDAN answered him--improves every day--wish we had him----very odd so clever a fellow shouldn't be able to see his own interest--wouldn't venture on a reply myself, for fear of another lick from that clumsy boor Sir EDWARD ASTLEY--said my long speech was dull and tiresome--what's the matter with the fellow?--used to vote with us--believe LANSDOWN's got him.--Mem. to tell STEELE to look out for another Member for the county of Norfolk.
Jogged PITT--told him SHERIDAN's speech _must_ be answered--said, _I_ might do it then, for he _couldn't_--PULTENEY relieved us a little, pretending to be gull'd by the _checks_--too great nonsense to have any effect on the House.--BASTARD forgot his last abuse of PITT, and talked again about confidence; but was against the Bill--what's confidence without a vote?--came to a division at last--better than the former--had whipped in well from SCOTLAND--the House seems tired--hope we shan't have much more of this.
Mem. to give orders to MANNERS to make a noise, and let nobody speak on third reading--a very useful fellow that MANNERS--does more good sometimes than ten speakers.
_March_ 14th. God's infinite mercy be praised, AMEN! This is the last day that infernal DECLARATORY BILL stays in the House of Commons--as for the _Lords_--but that's no business of mine; only poor SYDNEY!--Well--God bless us all--AMEN!
Got up and wrote the above, after a very restless night--went to bed again--but could not sleep--troubled with the _blue devils_--thought I saw POWIS--recovered myself a little, and fell into a slumber--Dreamt I heard SHERIDAN speaking to me through the curtains--woke in a fright, and jumped out of bed.
Went down stairs--found some of the DIRECTORS waiting in the hall--_damned their bloods_, and told them this was all their doing--informed me a General Court was called by the enemy--bid them make such a noise, that nobody might be heard--DEVAYNES undertook it--ordered the SECRET COMMITTEE to stay, and sent the rest about their business.