Carteret and Sir W. Coventry, the former
in his passion saying that the other should have helped things if
they were so bad; and the other answered, so he would, and things
should have been better had he been Treasurer of the Navy. I was
mightily troubled at this heat, and it will breed ill blood
between them, I fear; but things are in that bad condition, that
I do daily expect we shall all fly in one another's faces, when
we shall be reduced every one to answer for himself. We broke
up; and I soon after to Sir G. Carteret's chamber, where I find
the poor man telling his lady privately, and she weeping. I went
in to them, and did seem, as indeed I was, troubled for this; and
did give the best advice I could, which I think did please them:
and they do apprehend me their friend, as indeed I am, for I do
take the Vice-chamberlain for a most honest man. He did assure
me that he was not, all expences and things paid, clear in estate
15,000l. better than he was when the King come in; and that the
King and Lord Chancellor did know that he was worth, with the
debt the King owed him, 50,000l.
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