not to town. Silence has hitherto been predominant ; whether anything, and what, will pass on Wednesday at the Treasury, I know not. No fresh news from Sir Richard. Potter exceedingly ill. Ever your most affectionate, with many loves, &c., &c.

MR. PITT TO MR. GRENVILLE.

MR. PITT begs Mr. Grenville's succour, being so overwhelmed with business himself, as not to have time to draw the Address.

If Mr. Grenville be returned to town, and will be so good to be in St. James's Square before seven, Mr. Pitt will be infinitely obliged to him. The Address must be drawn by to-morrow morning, 10 o'clock. Sunday, -past 4, November 19th, 1758.

MR. PITT TO MR. GRENVILLE.

(November 19, 1758.)

THIS instant returned from Mr. Speaker, past eleven. In case the Parliament be opened by Commission, as in 1736-7, the only difference is that the Address to the King is carried by the Privy Council, and the King is thanked for the speech delivered by your Majesty's com

mands.

Be so good to return the draught of the speech tomorrow morning.

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1 Parliament met on the 23rd.

MR. JENKINSON TO MR. GRENVILLE.

Bury Street, Friday morning,

(December 15, 1758.)

DEAR SIR,-Since I was with you I have seen Mr. Legge. He was so kind as to repeat what you had mentioned to me. He approved of the sort of thing which you recommended me to apply for, and he engaged to point it out himself to the Duke of Newcastle, and to urge, as strongly as he was able, the propriety of it. He was so good as to say that he looked upon it as a public concern, and that he should urge it under that idea. He made only this addition to your plan, that as I had been two years about Lord Holdernesse, and was considered by him as belonging to his office, he would ask it as a salary to be given to me on that account by warrant, and this to cease if it should ever be thought proper to employ me abroad.

All this I thought proper to send to you by a letter, as the necessity of going to Newcastle House prevents my attending you in person, and I have already had too many proofs of your kindness to doubt, that if you can forward this affair by yourself or through any one else, before you leave town, you would, even without an application, do it.

If the Duke of Newcastle could not be brought to consent to the point above mentioned, or something of the same sort, Mr. Legge then proposes the other alternative of a Commissioner of the Stamps, or some such office. I have, &c., &c. CHAS. JENKINSON.

THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE TO EARL TEMPLE.

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Newcastle House, December 18, 1758. MY LORD, I have the honour and pleasure to acquaint your Lordship, that I this day proposed to the King, that your Lordship should succeed the late Duke of Marlborough as Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the County of Bucks, which His Majesty was pleased to agree to, and I have spoken to Mr. Pitt to prepare the necessary instruments accordingly. I should not have deferred it so long, but that I thought that out of civility, I should first acquaint the present Duke with it, which I had not an opportunity of doing 'till this morning. I am, with the greatest truth and respect, my Lord, &c., &c. HOLLES NEWCASTLE.

MR. JAMES GRENVILLE TO MR. GRENVILLE.

December 19, 1758.

DEAR BROTHER,-I shall certainly obey your commands to the utmost of my power, but when the unnatural father leaves his own child to the mercy of the times, what zeal or endeavours can be found sufficient to supply so great a defection. The million was granted yesterday. The Admiralty laid in their claim for a farther demand if it should be found necessary before the end of the sessions. Mr. Chancellor insists upon one of two things, either that they shall ask the whole that in this abstracted possibility of things can come to

be demanded between this and next Christmas twelvemonth, or take upon themselves the case of any accidental deficiency: for break in upon the course he will not at any event.

We meet to-morrow; you shall hear farther what passes. Adieu. Ever yours, &c. J. GRENVILLE.

EARL TEMPLE TO MR. GRENVILLE.

Tuesday, 4 o'clock, (December 19, 1758.)

THE younger brother of a Lord Lieutenant, if he behaves well, may possibly hope for an humble commission some time or other in the Militia. Last night I received a letter, civil, melancholy, and gentlemanlike, from the Duke of Newcastle, telling me that he had that morning named me to the King. This morning I waited upon his Grace in a civil, melancholy, and gentlemanlike mood. It was not his fault he said if everything I wished was not done: he explained and excused about Lord Mansfield'. I touched not the other subject, but decently took my leave: for a considerable time I believe. My reception of the most distinguished kind when I kissed hands: you know rumpatur quisquis rumpitur invidiâ.

I know no news, but that by the accounts of this day

'Lord Mansfield's influence in the Closet was now increasing; and being aware of the King's dislike to Lord Temple, he probably did not endeavour to remove it. A few months before this time, when the King had given him full powers to negotiate with Pitt and the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Mansfield stated that the King insisted Lord Temple should have no employment which required frequent attendance in the Closet.

it is probable the Princess of Orange' is by this time no

more.

Sir George Lee's' death was most sudden.

Love to your poor melancholy, confined, tyrannized wife, and unhappy babes. Yours most affectionately, T.

Sir C. Williams3 is again confined. Mr. Pitt is this morning again confined by his old companion, and I hear has taken to a great shoe.

EARL TEMPLE TO THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.

(December 20, 1758.)

MY LORD, I am extremely sensible to the great honour his Majesty is pleased to do me in appointing me Lieutenant of the County of Buckingham.

I am very happy in any mark his Majesty condescends to give me of his Royal goodness, and shall ever most humbly and gratefully acknowledge it.

I have many thanks to return to your Grace for

1 The Princess of Orange died on the 12th of January following. She was the eldest daughter of George the Second, and was married to the Prince of Orange in 1734. Since the death of her husband in 1751, she had been Gouvernante during the minority of her son. In Lord Hervey's Memoirs of George the Second are some amusing details respecting this Princess and her husband.

2 He died the day before the date of this letter, in his 64th year. 3 For some time past his health had rapidly declined, and his head was occasionally affected: towards the end of the following year he relapsed into a state of complete insanity, and died on the 2nd of November, aged 50. Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams is remembered principally for his sprightliness of conversation, ready wit, and agreeable manner, and for his poetical effusions, which were principally of a political and satirical character, often very closely bordering upon the extremes of licentiousness.