I had forgot to put in any shot, and the rod had been made so hot with the powder, that the birds were completely roasted by the time I reached home.
Since my arrival in England I have accomplished what I had very much at heart, viz., providing for the inhabitant of the Cheese Island, whom I had brought with me.

My old friend, Sir William Chambers, who is entirely indebted to me for all his ideas of Chinese gardening, by a description of which he has gained such high reputation; I say, gentlemen, in a discourse which I had with this gentlemen, he seemed much distressed for a contrivance to light the lamps at the new buildings, Somerset House; the common mode with ladders, he observed, was both dirty and inconvenient.

My native of the Cheese Island popped into my head; he was only nine feet high when I first brought him from his own country, but was now increased to ten and a half: I introduced him to Sir William, and he is appointed to that honourable office.

He is also to carry, under a large cloak, a utensil in each coat pocket, instead of those four which Sir William has _very properly_ fixed for private purposes in so conspicuous a situation, the great quadrangle.
He has also obtained from Mr.PITT the situation of messenger to his Majesty's lords of the bed-chamber, whose principal employment will _now_ be, divulging the secrets of the Royal household to their _worthy_ Patron.
SUPPLEMENT _Extraordinary flight on the back of an eagle, over France to Gibraltar, South and North America, the Polar Regions, and back to England, within six-and-thirty hours._ About the beginning of his present Majesty's reign I had some business with a distant relation who then lived on the Isle of Thanet; it was a family dispute, and not likely to be finished soon.

I made it a practice during my residence there, the weather being fine, to walk out every morning.