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178. To the same, April 16.-The Paddington road-bill struggle.
Militia-bill. Death of Sir William Lowther. Lord Shelburne's
speech. Folke GreVill'S "Maxims and Characters".-316

179. To Sir Horace Mann, April 18.-War of the turnpike-bill.
Death of Lady Drumlanrig, and of Sir William Lowther.-318

180. To George Montagu, Esq. April 20.-Death of Lady Essex, Sir
William Lowther's will. Lady Coventry. Billy and Bully. The new
Morocco ambassador and Lady Petersham. Coat-of-arms for the
clubs at White's.-319

181. To the same, May 12.-321

182. To Sir Horace Mann, May 16.-Defenceless state of Minorca.
The "PuCelle".-322

183. To George Montagu, Esq. May 19.-The King and the
Hanoverian troops. Lord Denbigh's bon-mot on his own marriage.-
323

184. To Sir Horace Mann, May 27.-His uncle Horatio created a
peer. Death of Chief Justice Ryder. Opera contest.-323

185. To the Earl of Strafford, June 6.-Frightful catastrophe.
Madame Maintenon's new Letters and Memoirs. Consternation on
the behaviour of Byng.-325

186. To John Chute, Esq. June 8.-Council of war at Gibraltar.
The Prince of Wales declines living at Kensington. His uncle
Horatio's motto and supporters. Visit to Lady Allen with Lord
and Lady Bath. General Wall's motto [N.].-327

187. To Sir Horace Mann, June 14.-Admiral Byng's letters.
Prince of Wales's establishment.-328

188. To George Montagu, Esq. June 18.-330

189. To Sir Horace Mann, July 11.-Public rage against Byng.-330


190. To George Montagu, Esq. July 12.-Military preparations.-
331

191. To Sir Horace Mann, July 24.-Clamour against Byng. Public
hopes in Boscawen. Lady Pomfret at Oxford University.-332

192. To George Montagu, Esq. Aug. 28.-334

193. To Sir Horace Mann, Aug. 29.-Loss of Minorca. League of
Cambray. Unpopularity of Byng.-334

194. To Richard Bentley, Esq. Aug.-Tour in the North. Bugden
Palace. Newark Castle. Wentworth Castle. Old Wortley Montagu.
Pomfret. Ledstone. Kippax Park. Kirkstall Abbey. Chapel on
Wakefield bridge. Worksop. Kiveton. Welbeck.-335

195. To Sir Horace Mann, Sept. 19.-Byng's quarrels with the
admiralty and ministry. Rage of addresses .-339

196. To George Montagu, Esq. Oct. 14.-Mode of passing his time.
Magna Charta. Garrick's temple to Shakspeare.-341

197. To the same, Oct.-342

198. To Sir Horace Mann, Oct. 17.-Successes of the King of
Prussia. Battle of Lowositz. Peace between Kensington and
Kew. Lord Bute groom of the stole to the Prince. Lords
Rockingham and Orford's match. The Irish Speaker at Newmarket.-
342

199. To George Montagu, Esq. Oct. 28.-Mutability of the world.
The Duke of Newcastle's resignation.-344

200. To Sir Horace Mann, Nov. 4.-The Duke of Newcastle's
resignation. Un-successful attempts to form a new ministry.-345

201. TO George Montagu, Esq. Nov. 6.-Mr. Pitt made secretary of
state. New ministry. The three factions.-347

202. To Sir Horace Mann, Nov. 13.-Mr. Pitt appointed secretary
of state. State of parties.-348

203. To George Montagu, Esq. Nov. 25.-The new ministry and
opposition.-350

204. To Sir Horace Mann, Nov. 29.-Mr. Pitt's gout. The new
ministry. List of the changes. The Duke of Newcastle's
disinterestedness. Benedict the Fourteenth.-350

205. To the same, Dec. 8.-Proceedings in Parliament.
Voltaire's epigram.-352

206. To the same, Dec. 16.-Illness of Sir Horace's brother. The
Hessian troops. Breach between Fox and Pitt.-354

207. To the same, Dec. 23.-Death of Sir Horace's brother.-356



1757.

208. To Sir Horace Mann, Jan. 8.-Party squabbles. The "Test"
and "Contest." Dr. Shebbeare's "Monitor." Death of King
Theodore.-356

209. To the same, Jan. 17.-The King and Mr. Pitt. Damien's
attempt on the King of France. King Theodore's death. Byng's
trial. Miss Elizabeth Villiers Pitt.-358

210. To the same, Jan. 30.-Admiral Byng's trial. Voltaire's
letter on his behalf. Death of Fontenelle. Brumoy's
"Aristophanes." Lady Essex and Prince Edward.-360

211. To the same, Feb. 13.-Progress of Admiral Byng's trial.
Death of his uncle Horatio Lord Walpole. Prince Edward and
Lady Essex at Lady Rochford's ball.-363

212. To John Chute, Esq. Feb. 27.-Admiral Byng's court-martial.
[N.].-364

213. To Sir Horace Mann, March 3.-Admiral Byng's sentence.
Applications of the court-martial for mercy. German subsidy.
French symptoms.-365

214. To the same, March 17.-Completion of Admiral Byng's
tragedy. Mr. Pitt's health. Fears for Hanover.-367

215. To the same, April 7.-Dismissal of the ministry. Inter-
ministerium. Court changes.-368

216. To the same, April 20.-Inquiries into the naval
miscarriages. Freedoms in gold boxes to Mr. Pitt and Mr. Legge.
Damien's execution.-370

217. To the same, May 5.-Result of the naval inquiries.
Epigrams 372

218. To the same, May 19.-Inter-ministerium. King of Prussia's
victory. Battle of Prague.-374

219. To George Montagu, Esq. May 27.-375

220. To Sir Horace Mann, June 1.-Ministerial negotiations. King
of Prussia's victories.-376

221. To George Montagu, Esq. June 2.-Projected ministry.-377

222. To Sir Horace Mann, June 9.-Ministerial arrangements. Lord
Waldegrave first lord of the treasury.-378

223. To the same, June 14.-New ministerial revolution. The
three factions. Scramble for power.-379

224. To the same, June 20.-Mr. Pitt accepts the seals. The new
ministry. Inscription for a bas-relief in wax of Benedict the
Fourteenth.-380

225. To the same, July 3. -Settlement of the ministry.-382

226. To the Earl of Strafford, July 4.-New volumes of
Voltaire's "Universal history".-383

227. To John Chute, Esq. July 12.-Gray's "Odes" to be printed
at the Strawberry Hill press.-385

228. To George Montagu, Esq. July 16.-386

229. To the same, July 17.-386

230. To Sir Horace Mann, July 25.-Secret expedition.-387

231. To John Chute, Esq. July 26.-Picture of Ninon de l'Enclos.
Mrs. Clive's legacy.-387

232. To Sir Horace Mann, Aug. 4.-Disasters in Flanders. Gray's
"Odes." His printer's letter to a friend in Ireland.-388

233. To George Montagu, Esq. Aug. 4.-Defeat of the Duke of
Cumberland at Hastenbeck.-390

234. To the Hon. H. S. Conway, Aug. 14.-Cause of the defeat at
Hastenbeck.-391

235. To George Montagu, Esq. Aug. 25.-His opinion of Gray's
"Odes." His printing-office.-392

236. To the Hon. H. S. Conway, Sept. 2.-Charles Townshend. Lord
Chesterfield and Lord Bath [N.].-393

237. To Sir Horace Mann, Sept. 3.-Visit to Linton. Urn to the
memory of Sir Horace's brother. Lord Loudon abandons the design
on Louisbourg.-393

238. To George Montagu, Esq. Sept. 8.-395

239. To the Right Hon. Lady Hervey, Sept. 13.-Ninon de
l'Enclos's picture.-396

240. To George Montagu, Esq. Sept. 20.-Death of' Sir John
Bland.-396

241. To Sir Horace Mann, Sept. 29.-Convention of
Closter-Severn. Disturbances occasioned by the Militia-bill.
Inscription to the memory of King Theodore.-397

242. To the Hon. H. S. Conway, Oct. 8.-Expedition to Rochfort
(N].-400

243. To the Earl of Strafford, Oct. 11.-Return of the
expedition to Rochfort. Militia-bill.-401

244. To Sir Horace Mann, Oct 12.-Rochfort expedition. Return of
the Duke of Cumberland.-402

245. To the Hon. H. S. Conway, Oct. 13.-Inquiry into the
failure of the Rochfort expedition.-403

246. To George Montagu, Esq. Oct. 18.-Resignation of the Duke
of Cumberland.-404

247. To Sir Horace Mann, Oct. 24.-The Duke of Cumberland's
resignation. Failure at Rochfort.-404

248. To the same, Nov. 20.-King of Prussia's victory at
Rosbach. General dissatisfaction. Troubles in Ireland. Inquiry
into the failure at Rochfort. Characteristic traits of' Mr.
Conway. Richard the First's poetry. Bon-mot of Lord Tyrawley.-
405

249. To George Montagu, Esq.---408

250. To the same, Dec. 23.-Death of Mr. Mann.-408

251. To Dr. Ducarel, Dec. 25.-"Dictes and sayings of the
Philosophers".-409



1758.


252. To Sir Horace Mann, Jan. 11.-Court-martial on Sir John
Mordaunt. Death of Princess Caroline. And of Sir Benjamin
Keene.-409

253. To Dr. Ducarel, Jan. 12.-411

254. To Sir Horace Mann, Feb. 9.-Politics gone into winter
quarters. Duke of Richelieu's banishment. Rage of expense in
our pleasures.-412

255. To the same, Feb. 10.-Opening of the campaign. Fame.
Saying of one of the Duke of Marlborough's generals. New secret
expedition. Debate on the Habeas Corpus extension bill. Sir
Luke Schaub's pictures. Swift's "Four last Years of Queen
Anne." Dr. Lucas.-413

256.To the same, Feb. 23.-Acquittal of General Mordaunt. Death
of Dr. Cocchi. Richard the First's poems.-415

257. To the same, March 21.-The East Indian here, Clive.
Hanover retaken. George Grenville's Navy-bill. Sir Charles
Williams's return from Russia, and mental indisposition.
Frantic conduct of Lord Ferrers. Swift's "Four last Years".-416

258. To the same, April 14.-Convention with Prussia. Sir
Charles Williams. Lord Bristol appointed ambassador to Spain.-
418

259. To the Rev. Dr. Birch, May 4.-Soliciting observations on
his "Royal and Noble Authors".-419

260. To George Montagu, Esq. May 4.-Flattering reception of his
"Royal and Noble Authors." Story of Dr. Browne and Sir Charles
Williams.-420

261. To Sir Horace Mann, May 31.-Expedition to St. Maloes.
Extension of the Habeas Corpus act.-422

262. To the Hon. H. S, Conway, June 4.-Debates on the Habeas
Corpus extension bill. Expedition to St. Maloes. Ninon de
l'Enclos's portrait.-423

263. To Dr. Ducarel, June.-Thanks for his remarks on the "Noble
Authors".-424

264. To Sir Horace Mann, June 11.-Departure of the expedition
to St. Maloes. Prince Ferdinand's passage of the Rhine.-425

265. To the Hon. H. S. Conway, June 16.-Return of the
expedition to St. Maloes.-426

266. To the Earl of Strafford, June 16.-Failure of the
expedition against St. Maloes.-427

267. To Sir Horace Mann, June 18.-Expedition to St. Maloes.-428

268. To Sir David Dalrymple, June 29.-Thanks for his
approbation of the "Noble Authors." queen Elizabeth's fondness
for praise. Pope's "Bufo" and "Bubb." Lord Orrery's
"Parthenissa" [N.).-430

69. To John Chute, Esq. June 29.-Prince Ferdinand's victory.-
431

270. To George Montagu, Esq. July 6.-431

271. To the Rev. Dr. Birch, July 8.-432

272. To the Hon. H. S. Conway, July 8.-Dedication to him of the
"Fugitive Pieces." Fate of our expeditions [N.].-432

273. To Sir Horace Mann, July 8.-Prince Ferdinand's victory at
Crevelt. Return of our armada from St. Maloes.-433

274. To the Hon. H. S. Conway, July 21.-Appointment of General
Blighe. Fate of the expeditions. [N.].-434

275. To the Rev. Henry Zouch, Aug. 3.-Thanks for his remarks on
the Royal and noble Authors," and for his information.-436

276. To the same, Aug. 12.-439

277. To Sir Horace Mann, Aug. 12.-Expedition against
Cherbourg.-440

278. To George Montagu, Esq. Aug. 20.-Visit to the Grange.
Ragley. The Conway papers.-441

279. To John Chute, Esq. Aug. 22.-Account of the Conway papers
[N.).-443

280. To Sir Horace Mann, Aug. 24.-Expedition against Cherbourg.
Taking of Cape Breton. Failure of the attack on Crown-point.
Death of Lord Howe. Defeat at Ticonderoga.-444

281. To the Hon. H. S. Conway, Sept. 2.-Defeat of the Russians
at Zorndorf. Repulse of General Abercrombie at Ticonderoga.-445

282. To Sir Horace Mann, Sept. 8.-Battle of Zorndorf. Marriage
of his niece Laura to Dr. Frederick Keppel.-446

283. To the Rev. Henry Zouch, Sept. 14,-Soliciting information
for a new edition of his "Noble Authors".-448

284. To the Hon. H. S. Conway, Sept. 19.-On the failure of the
late expeditions to the coast of France [N.].-449

285. To Sir Horace Mann, Sept. 22. Failure of the expedition
against Cherbourg.-451

286. To George Montagu, Esq. Oct. 3.-Disappointment and loss at
St. Cas.-453

287. To the Rev. Henry Zouch, Oct. 5.-Progress of the new
edition of "Noble Authors." Discovery of the Conway papers.-454

288. To the Right Hon. Lady Hervey, Oct. 17.-Rumoured
assassination of the King of Portugal. Epigram on the Chevalier
Taylor.-456

289. To the Hon. H. S. Conway, Oct. 17.-On the general's not
being employed by Mr. Pitt [N.].-457


290. To the Rev. Henry Zouch, Oct. 21.-Thanks for further
information. Lord Clarendon and Polybius. Dr. Jortin's
"Erasmus." Reasons for not writing the life of his father.-459

291. To George Montagu, Esq. Oct. 24.-Reasons for leaving off
authorship.-462

292. To Sir Horace Mann, Oct. 24.-On sending a drawing Of his
monument to the memory of Sir Horace
s brother. Reported assassination of the King of Portugal. The
Duc d'Aiguillon's amiable behaviour to our prisoners.-463

293. To George Montagu, Esq. Nov. 26.-465

294. To Sir Horace Mann, Nov. 27.-Illness of the king. Harmony
in parliament. Death of the Duke of Marlborough.-465

295. To the Rev. Henry Zouch, Dec. 9.-On sending the second
edition of "Noble Authors." Lucan and Virgil. Helvetius de
l'Esprit.-467

296. To Sir Horace Mann, Dec. 25.-Prospects of a Dutch war.
Enormous supplies. Unanimity of Parliament. Fall of Cardinal de
Bernis.-468

297. To George Montagu, Esq. Dec. 26.-Intended marriage of
Colonel York.-470



1759.

298. To the Rev. Henry Zouch, Jan. 12.-Lord Lonsdale's treatise
on Economics. Lucan. Vertua's MS. collections.-471

299. To the Hon. H. S. Conway, Jan. 19.-State of the House of
Commons.-473

300. To the same, Jan. 28.-Match between Colonel Campbell and
the Duchess of Hamilton. Prussian and Hessian treaties.-473

301. To John Chute, Esq. Feb. 1.-The Opera. Prussian cantata.
Gothic antiquities (N.].-477

302. To the same, Feb. 2.-Spence's Comparison of Magliabechi
and Bill. Story of Carr's Cousin.-475

303. To Sir Horace Mann, Feb. 9.-Quebec expedition.-478

304. To Mr. Gray, Feb. 15.-Literary queries. Critical Review.-
478

305. To the Right Hon. Lady Hervey, Feb. 20.-479


306. To Sir David Dalrymple, Feb. 25.-Robertson's History of
Scotland. Ramsay the painter.-479

307. To Sir Horace Mann, march 4.-Projects a History of the
House of Medici.-480

308. To John Chute, Esq. March 13.-Fears for his health.
Recommends him to leave the Vine, lest he should die of
mildew.-481

309. To the Rev. Henry Zouch, March 15.-Vertue's MSS. Hume's
History.-482

310. To Sir David Dalrymple, March 25.-House of Medici. leo the
Tenth [N.].-482

311. To Sir Horace Mann, April 11.-Marriage of his niece Maria
to Lord Waldegrave. Prince Ferdinand's victory over the
Austrians.-484

312. To George Montagu, Esq. April 26.-His niece's marriage to
Lord Waldegrave. Ball at Bedford House.-485

313. To Sir Horace Mann, May 10,-General Hobson. Canada. House
of Medici.-487

314. To the Rev. Henry Zouch, May 14.-Vertue's MSS. Hume and
Smollett's Histories.-488

315. To George Montagu, Esq. May 16.-His niece's marriage.
Judges' salaries. Charles Townshend's bon-mot.-490

316. To Sir Horace Mann, June 1.-The comet. King of Prussia's
victories. Fame.-491

317. To George Montagu, Esq. June 1.-The invasion. Mason's
"Caractacus".-492

318. To Sir Horace Mann, June 8.-493

319. To the Earl of' Strafford, June 12.-494

320. To Sir Horace Mann, June 22.-Invasion. Militia. Quebec.
Death of Lady Murray.-495

321. To George Montagu, Esq. June 23.-496

322. To Sir Horace Mann, July 8.-Rumours of invasion.-497

323. To Sir David Dalrymple, July 11.-Mary Queen of Scots.
Hume's History. Christina of Sweden [N.].-498

324.. To George Montagu, Esq. July 19.-Review of the Militia.
Butler's "Remains".-499

325. To the same, July 26.-Visit to Navestock.-500

326. To Sir Horace Mann, Aug. 1.-Invasion. Militia.-501

327. To the same, Aug. 8.-Battle of Minden.-502

328. To George Montagu, Esq. Aug. 9.-Battle of Minden.-504

329. To the Earl of Strafford, Aug. 9.-Battle of Minden.-505

330. To the Hon. H. S. Conway, Aug. 14.-Battle of Minden.
Prince Ferdinand and Lord George Sackville [N.).-506

331. To Sir Horace Mann, Aug. 29.-Minden. Illuminations. Lord
George Sackville.-507

332. To the same, Sept. 13.-Death of the Princess Elizabeth.
Lord George Sackville.-508

333. To the Earl of Strafford, Sept. 13.-Our victories.-510

334. To the Hon. H. S. Conway, Sept. 13.-Lord George Sackville
[N.].-511

335. To George Montagu, Esq. Oct. 11.-512

336. To the Hon. H. S. Conway, Oct. 14.-The invasion getting
out of fashion. Lord George Sackville (N.].-513

337. To Sir Horace Mann, Oct. 16.-Quebec. East India
conquests.-514

338. To the Hon. H. S. Conway, Oct. 18.-Quebec. Death of
General Wolfe.-514

339. To Sir Horace Mann, Oct. 19.-Conquest of Quebec.-516

340. To George Montagu, Esq. Oct. 21.-Public rejoicings for the
conquest of Quebec.-517

341. To the Earl of Strafford, Oct. 30.-Quebec.-518

342. To the Right Hon. Lady Hervey, Nov. 3.-Poor Robin's
Almanac. High Life below Stairs.-519

343. To George Montagu, Esq. Nov. 8.-French bankruptcy. Mrs.
Montagu and Lord Lyttelton.-519

344. To Sir Horace Mann, Nov. 16.-Lord George Sackville. Lord
Temple's resignation of the privy-seal on being refused the
Garter.-521




Correspondence of the Honourable Horace Walpole



1749

13 Letter 1
To Sir Horace Mann.
Strawberry Hill, March 4, 1749.

I have been so shut up in the House of Commons for this last
fortnight or three weeks, that I have not had time to write you
a line: we have not had such a session since the famous
beginning of last Parliament. I am come hither for a day or
two of rest and air, and find the additional pleasure of great
beauty in my improvements: I could talk to you through the
whole sheet, and with much more satisfaction, upon this head;
but I shall postpone my own amusement to yours, for I am sure
you want much more to know what has been doing in Parliament
than at Strawberry Hill. You will conclude that we have been
fighting over the peace; but we have not. It is laid before
Parliament, but will not be taken up; the Opposition foresee
that a vote of approbation would pass, and therefore will not
begin upon it, as they wish to reserve it for censure in the
next reign--or perhaps the next reign does not care to censure
now what he must hereafter maintain--and the ministry do not
seem to think their treaty so perfect as not to be liable to
blame, should it come to be canvassed. We have been then upon
several other matters: but first I should tell you, that from
the utmost tranquillity and impotence of a minority, there is
at once started up so formidable an Opposition as to divide 137
against 203.(1) The minority is headed by the Prince, who has
continued opposing, though very unsuccessfully, ever since the
removal of Lord Granville, and the desertion of the patriots.
He stayed till the Pelhams had brought off every man of parts
in his train, and then began to form his party. Lord Granville
has never come into it., for fear of breaking with the King; and
seems now to be patching up again with his old enemies. If Lord
Bath has dealt with the Prince, it has been underhand. His
ministry has had at the head of it poor Lord Baltimore, a very
good-natured, weak, honest man; and Dr. Lee, a civilian, who was
of Lord Granville's admiralty, and is still much attached to him.
He is a grave man, and a good speaker, but of no very bright
parts, and, from his way of life and profession, much ignorant
of, and unfit for, a ministry. You will wonder what new
resources the Prince has discovered-why, he has found them all
in Lord Egmont, whom you have heard of under the name of Lord
Perceval; but his father, an Irish Earl, is lately dead. As he
is likely to make a very considerable figure in our history, I
shall give you a more particular account of him. He has always
earnestly studied our history and constitution and antiquities,
with very ambitious views; and practised speaking early in the
Irish Parliament. Indeed, this turn is his whole fund, for
though he is between thirty and forty, he knows nothing of the
world, and is always unpleasantly dragging the conversation to
political dissertations. When very young, as he has told me
himself, he dabbled in writing Craftsmen and penny-papers; but
the first event that made him known, was his carrying the
Westminster election at the end of my father's ministry,-which
he amply described in the history of his own family, a
genealogical work called "The History of the House of
Yvery,"(2) a work which cost him three thousand pounds, as the
heralds informed Mr. Chute and me, when we went to their office
on your business; and which was so ridiculous, that he has
since tried to suppress all the copies. It concluded with the
description of the Westminster election, in these or some such
words, "And here let us leave this young nobleman struggling
for the dying liberties of his country!" When the change in
the ministry happened, and Lord Bath was so abused by the
remnant of the patriots, Lord Egmont published his celebrated
pamphlet, called "Faction Detected," a work which the Pitts and
Lytteltons have never forgiven him; and which, though he
continued voting and sometimes speaking with the Pelhams, made
him quite unpopular during all the last Parliament. When the
new elections approached, he stood on his own bottom at Weobly
in Herefordshire; but his election being contested, be applied
for Mr. Pelham's support, who carried it for him in the House
of Commons. This will always be a material blot in his life;
for he had no sooner secured his seat, than he openly attached
himself to the Prince, and has since been made a lord of his
bedchamber. At the opening of this session, he published an
extreme good pamphlet, which has made infinite noise, called
"An Examination of the Principles and Conduct of the two
Brothers," (the Pelhams,) and as Dr. Lee has been laid up with
the gout, Egmont has taken the lead in the Opposition, and has
made as great a figure as perhaps was ever made in so short a
time. He is very bold and resolved, master of vast knowledge,
and speaks at once with fire and method. His words are not
picked and chosen like Pitt's, but his language is useful, clear,
and strong. He has already by his parts and resolution mastered
his great unpopularity, so far as to be heard with the utmost
attention, though I believe nobody had ever more various
difficulties to combat. All the old corps hate him on my father
and Mr. Pelham's account; the new part of the ministry on their
own. The Tories have not quite forgiven his having left them in
the last Parliament: besides that, they are now governed by one
Prowse, a cold, plausible fellow. and a great well-wisher to
Mr. Pelham. Lord Strange,(3) a busy Lord of a party by
himself, yet voting generally with the Tories, continually
clashes with Lord Egmont; and besides all this, there is a
faction in the Prince's family, headed by Nugent, who are for
moderate measures.

Nugent is most affectedly an humble servant of Mr. Pell)afn,
and seems only to have attached himself to the Prince, in order
to make the better bargain with the ministry; he has great
parts, but they never know how to disentangle themselves from
bombast and absurdities. Besides those, there are two young
men who make some figure in the rising Opposition, Bathurst(4)
attorney to the Prince; and Potter, whom I believe you have had
mentioned in my letters of last year; but he has a bad
constitution, and is seldom able to be in town. Neither of
these are in the scale of moderation.

The Opposition set out this winter with trying to call for
several negotiations during the war; but the great storm which
has so much employed us of late, was stirred up by Colonel
Lyttelton;(5) who, having been ill-treated by the Duke, has
been dealing with the Prince. He discovered to the House some
innovations in the Mutiny-bill, of which, though he could not
make much, the Opposition have, and fought the bill for a whole
fortnight; during the course of which the world has got much
light into many very arbitrary proceedings of the
Commander-in-chief,(6) which have been the more believed too by
the defection of my Lord Townshend's(7) eldest son, who is one of
his aide-de-camps. Though the ministry, by the weight of
numbers, have carried their point in a great measure, yet you may
be sure great heats have been raised; and those have been still
more inflamed by a correspondent practice in a new Navy-bill,
brought in by the direction of Lord Sandwich and Lord Anson,
but vehemently opposed by half the fleet, headed by Sir Peter
Warren, the conqueror of Cape Breton, richer than Anson, and
absurd as Vernon. The bill has even been petitioned against,
and the mutinous were likely to go great lengths, if' the
admiralty had not bought off some by money, and others by
relaxing in the material points.- We began upon it yesterday,
and are still likely to have a long affair of it-so much for
politics: and as for any thing else, I scarce know any thing
else. My Lady Huntingdon,(8) the Queen of the Methodists, has
got her daughter named for lady of the bedchamber to the
Princesses; but it is all off again. as she will not let her
play at cards on Sundays. It is equally absurd on both sides,
to refuse it, or to insist upon it.

Pray tell Dr. Cocchi that I shall be extremely ready to do him
any service in his intended edition of the old Physicians,(9)
but that I fear it is a kind of work that will lie very little
within my sphere to promote. Learning is confined to very
narrow bounds at present, and those seldom within the circle in
which I necessarily live; but my regard for him and for you
would make me take any pains. You see, I believe, that I do
take pains for you--I have not writ such a letter to any body
these three years. Adieu!