hat they being confident that the
money is there they look for, but having never been in the cellars, they
could not be positive to the place, and therefore will inform themselves
more fully now they have been there, of the party that do advise them.
So locking the door after us, we left work to-night, and up to the
Deputy Governor (my Lord Mayor, and Sir H. Bennet, with the rest of the
company being gone an hour before); and he do undertake to keep the key
of the cellars, that none shall go down without his privity. But, Lord!
to see what a young simple fantastique coxcombe is made Deputy Governor,
would make one mad; and how he called out for his night-gown of silk,
only to make a show to us; and yet for half an hour I did not think he
was the Deputy Governor, and so spoke not to him about the business,
but waited for another man; at last I broke our business to him; and
he promising his care, we parted. And Mr. Leigh and I by coach to White
Hall, where I did give my Lord Sandwich an account of our proceedings,
and some encouragement to hope for something hereafter, and so bade him
good-night, and so by coach home again, where to my trouble I found that
the painter had not been here to-day to do any thing, which vexes me
mightily. So to my office to put down my journal, and so home and to
bed. This morning, walking with Mr. Coventry in the garden, he did tell
me how Sir G. Carteret had carried the business of the Victuallers'
money to be paid by himself, contrary to old practice; at which he is
angry I perceive, but I believe means no hurt, but that things maybe
done as they ought. He expects Sir George should not bespatter him
privately, in revenge, but openly. Against which he prepares to bedaub
him, and swears he will do it from the beginning, from Jersey to this
day. And as to his own taking of too large fees or rewards for places
that he had sold, he will prove that he was directed to it by Sir George
himself among others. And yet he did not deny Sir G. Carteret his
due, in saying that he is a man that do take the most pains, and gives
himself the most to do business of any man about the Court, without
any desire of pleasure or divertisements; which is very true. But which
pleased me mightily, he said in these words, that he was resolved,
whatever it cost him, to make an experiment, and see whether it was
possible for a man to keep himself up in Court by dealing plainly
and walking uprightly, with any private game