forgot to say that the number of cannon taken are seventy-five.

I had yesterday the honour of your letter, and I am extremely obliged to you for the kind invitations you have been again so good as to give me to wait on you this summer at Wotton; I own myself ashamed that I have not as yet fulfilled my promise, and I am sorry I should still have some affairs that keep me here. I confess I am no shooter, but I should want no other inducement but yours and Mrs. Grenville's company to bring me but we will talk more of this when you come to town, when I hope you will let me have the honour of waiting on you. I have, &c., &c.

CHAS. JENKINSON.

MR. JENKINSON TO MR. GRENVILLE.

London, September 14, 1758.

DEAR SIR,-I have the pleasure to acquaint you that our troops have once more landed on the Coast of France, and this time without the least opposition. They debarked in the Bay of St. Lunerre, which is about three leagues to the westward of St. Malo's, which they were to have attacked; but the weather was so bad whilst they were there, that the fleet could not act, so they were forced to abandon their design. They have, however, burnt about twenty ships and destroyed some batteries, and they are now marching upon the coast to another bay, to which the fleet is gone round, and where the troops will reimbark as they shall find it prudent.

By the last letters from Pologne we hear that General Fermer is making a fine retreat with the remains of the

Russian Army; that he has shown himself in his present distresses to have a great knowledge in his profession; and that he chuses such strong camps, that the Prussians who are in the pursuit have not dared to attack him; the slaughter, however, of his army in the battle proves to have been even greater than was imagined there have been buried 19,000 bodies in the field of battle, and the number of cannon taken amount to 108. I have, &c., &c. CHAS. JENKINSON.

EARL TEMPLE TO THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.

Stowe, September 18, 1758.

MY LORD,-The death of the Earl of Carlisle1 having occasioned a second vacancy in the Order of the Garter, your Grace will allow me to express my desires to be included in the next promotion, if His Majesty shall think me worthy of that honour from the rank I hold in his service 2.

I cannot, to be sure, be insensible to the many marks I have had the misfortune to receive of His Majesty's displeasure, arising from the suggestions and misrepresentations of my enemies, who at the same time led His Majesty into many difficulties from which your Grace, in conjunction with our common friends, has had the honour and satisfaction in a great measure to deliver him. From that happy union many signal benefits have been derived to the King and to the nation; and I have for my share, at least, the pleasure to reflect that I have

1 Henry Howard, fourth Earl of Carlisle. He died on the 4th instant. He had been made a Knight of the Garter in March, 1757. 2 Earl Temple was now Lord Privy Seal.

not been wanting in zealous endeavours to promote and cement it. If I ask my own heart, I cannot but trust that your Grace will employ your best offices to dispose His Majesty's mind to give me, after so many mortifications, this honourable mark of his Royal condescension and goodness. But whether I attain it or not, a just sense of my own honour, and the dictates of my own conscience, will equally direct me to support all measures which appear to me conducive to the true interest of the King, and the real service of my country, fighting for her last stake. I shall, however, think that I was wanting to myself and to my own situation, if I did not, with all possible respect, lay these my wishes at His Majesty's feet.

To your Grace I will make no professions; you are certainly well enabled to judge and decide whether I have or have not been wanting in proofs of my friendship and good wishes to you. Upon that foot I take my leave of this matter, and have only to add the most affectionate assurances of the great respect with which I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Grace's most obedient and most humble Servant,

TEMPLE.

EARL TEMPLE TO THE EARL OF LINCOLN.

Stowe, September 19, 1758.

MY DEAR LORD,-I am returned to Stowe delighted with my excursion, and penetrated with all the kind marks of friendship and partiality with which your Lordship honoured me. In my expressions of love for Oatlands1

1 Oatlands, near Weybridge, in Surrey, celebrated for its grotto and gardens. It was the residence of Henry, Earl of Lincoln.

and the inhabitants thereof, Lady Temple desires to claim and assert her whole share, and I will accordingly with pleasure add it to mine, which taken together with that of the rest of my family, is the best return I can make your Lordship and my Lady for all your favours: I only wish I had it in my power to make a better. In one of our conversations upon a certain matter', I expressed an unwillingness to your Lordship to put my friends under any difficulties upon my account, which I still feel; and I did not care in a party of so much pleasure to mix up anything of my own situation that was not agreeable to me; but having more than once considered over this matter since, which your Lordship must imagine I have turned in my mind frequently before we touched upon it at Oatlands, I have taken the resolution of writing a letter to the Duke of Newcastle upon it, a copy of which my brother George will show you, and I think his Grace, who knows the mollia tempora fandi, will, if he pleases, dispose our Royal personage properly; but whatever may be the result of it, or indeed of any part of my political situation, it never can, nor ever shall in its consequences, produce the least diminution in my warmly affectionate friendship and honour for your Lordship; and I will ever have such a guard upon myself as never deservedly to forfeit what I really value more than any favour I have to ask of Ministers or Courts, I mean the satisfaction of being thought, and really proving myself to be, with infinite esteem and respect, my dear Lord, your most devoted, &c., TEMPLE.

1 Alluding to his application for the vacant Garter, and apparently very conscious of the King's extreme disinclination to confer it upon

MR. JENKINSON TO MR. GRENVILLE.

London, September 23, 1758.

DEAR SIR, Though I imagine that this letter will get to Wotton before you, as it will contain no news, but will only relate to what we talked on while you was in town, the delay will be of no consequence.

I have since I saw you begun to put the materials together for my Treatise', and I find I should soon complete it, if it was not for the distress I am in for want of books, out of which I am to make my quotations for though the English are very great politicians, they have I believe fewer books on Public Law, or anything that relates to Foreign Policy, than any other nation in the world. What particularly distresses me on this occasion is, that I find it absolutely necessary to complete my argument, that I should quote some of the best writers on the point of Natural Law; the Duke of Newcastle's letter only refers to them, and to do no more than that again, would be unsatisfactory, especially as I shall be so extensive on the other points. I have ordered all London to be searched for the books I want, and I have sent for two of them from Holland. I shall set them down at the bottom of this, that if you should have any of them yourself, or know of any one that hath a collection of books of this sort, you would be so good as to assist me: they must be somewhere in

1 The Treatise was entitled, "A Discourse on the Conduct of Great Britain in respect to Neutral Nations during the present War." It was published during the present year, and was held in considerable estimation as a performance of great solidity and import: it was translated into several languages. Mr. Jenkinson was eminently conversant with the Laws of Nations, and the principles and details of Commerce.