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~June of 17 1765 Richmond Lodge INr Pitt & this moment with the utmost joy receive His Majestig commands to desire you would utter Wim at the Queen-house on Weelner day. at ten in the morning below stairs he allows for the infirmities but also knots where mem

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THE NEW YORK

PUBLIC LIKARST

William

Aathan Correspondence, Vol. II

John Murray. Ribamarie St London, 1838.

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Richmond Lodge July 7 21766.

Mr Pitt Your very Datiful & Handsome condest
the last summer makes Me desirous of having
Your thoughts how an

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Able & Dignifyd Ministry

be formed, I desire therefore You will ame

for this salutary purposes to Town

I cannot conclude without expressing how

the Bases on which

entirely my

ideas cone

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a new

Administration should be created, are
consonant to the opinion You gave on that subject
Pashamnent a few days before you set out for
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I convey this through the Channel of the Earl of Northington, as there is no Mar whom I sothoroughly rely & who I know agrees with Me so perfectly in the contents of this letter leorget

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THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY

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CORRESPONDENCE,

&c. &c.

MR. PITT TO LADY HESTER PITT.

Thursday night, 11 o'clock,
December 1, 1757.

I WRITE before I go to bed, in order to open the morning at Hayes with the joyful tidings of this day. The Austrians, about seventy thousand men, attacked the Prince of Bevern near Breslau in Silesia-strong about thirty thousand men-on the 22d past, about seven in the morning.

After

an action of four hours, the Prince of Bevern broke the Austrians, and pursued them twelve English miles that night; and as far the next day, before he returned. The Austrians retreated in three divisions: one of those divisions made for Lignitz, and, miraculous! the King of Prussia, in person, was got within three marches of that body when the news came away. My hero had, chemin faisant, cleared Lusatia of generals Marshall and Haddick, beat in the rear, killed about four hundred men, and made prisoners about six hundred, and then pierced into Silesia. Marshal Keith, as out of the

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