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occasions, I trust Sir you will excuse my repeating what I have often recommended, that your Royal Highness will be very guarded, how you let an expression escape you, unbecoming your high birth and character. Not only the actions, but every word of a Prince are noticed, and remarked upon, I am therefore led to express my most sincere wish, that you will ever Sir, be tender, of an absent person and never turn any one present into ridicule We have all our little foibles, and though they do not correspond, with the polite well bred man, yet may be perfectly innocent & harmless, but no one likes to be held up as a Butt, and made a jest of, for the amusement of others, and notwithstanding it may excite laughter and seem to be enjoyed by the company, the thinking part of it, will make their observations very unfavourable to your Royal Highness, and say, it will be our turn next; and was you to labour Prince William, for a mode [[catchword]] of [[/catchword]]
