"What must be surmised without doors, when committees are moved for to inquire what laws may be necessary to support the liberties of the subjects (I may not give the words, but of this import), and the Ch. of the E- dividing with the minority, on such a question, at this time?"

To the same purport, on Jan. 1. 1760:

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Perhaps I need not tell you that there is a general indisposition to the people of England from those in Ireland: that they are unwilling to acknowledge the dependency of this on the British L-sl-re; and that they are all bred up in a settled antipathy to the superiority of the latter. Notwithstanding this, I would not be thought as imagining that there is any settled plan for the asserting an Ind-p-cy: but to be uneasy in their present state, and to express amongst themselves this uneasiness, is the turn and fashion of the upper sort of people, and is caught from them downwards. I apprehend, too, that Pr―ts—ts in this particular are as culpable as Pa-p―ts.”

On Thurot's invasion, Feb. 27. 1760:

"Between friends, the invasion will answer one good purpose, it will shorten the session: for most of the patriots are gone to do their country as little service with their hands and their militias, as they do with their heads at College Green."

The capture of Thurot's squadron, related by Mr. Hill, the Collector of Strangford, March 1:

"I have this moment received an account by express from the Isle of Man, that on Thursday morning last, before day, the English squadron, under the command of Captain Elliot, of the Eolus, came up with and engaged

Captain Thurot (who had sailed out of Belfast Lough at one that morning) off Ramsay, in the Isle of Man.

"That, at the second broadside, Captain Thurot was killed, on which his ships struck and were carried into Ramsay Bay. They consist of the Bellisle, of forty guns, and Le Blond and La Terpsichore frigates, of thirty guns; our ships were the Eolus, of forty guns, and two twentygun ships. The express saw them lying in Ramsay Bay, and the English colours hoisted above the French. The Bellisle was greatly shattered, so as hardly to be kept above water. Twenty of our men that were wounded were sent on shore at the Isle of Man."

From Mr. Waite to Sir R. Wilmot:

"It rejoices me to hear that your great people in St. James's Square and Lincoln's Inn Fields have conceived so justly of the abilities of Mr. Rigby. We shall see him a very considerable man. He has all the requisites for it, and is as agreeable a master as I ever served."

Again, from Mr. Waite, after the resignation of the Lord-Lieutenancy by the Duke, Jan. 30. 1761:

"It is the grief of my heart to think that there is even a probability of losing Mr. Rigby. I shall never meet with such a friend again. I shall never again serve under a man with so much pleasure. He reposed trust and confidence in me: he treated me with the openness and affection of a brother; and, to the latest hour of my life, I shall love, honour, and esteem him."

The third and last volume of this correspondence will contain the negotiations which ended in the peace of Paris, and many letters illustrative of the

changes of domestic policy at the commencement of the reign of George the Third. The Introduction to that volume will include a notice of the false and malignant libels of Junius, upon the character of the Duke of Bedford.

The public are again indebted to Mr. Martin, for nearly all the notes to this volume.

CORRESPONDENCE,

&c. &c.

THE DUKE OF BEDFORD TO THE EARL OF SUSSEX
AND LORD CATHCART.

January 1. 1748–9.

[RESPECTING the King's intention of sending an Ambassador to Paris.

In a minute of business transacted with the King is the following memorandum in the Duke's handwriting: "His Majesty doth not intend to send the Duke of Richmond to France, unless M. de Mirepoix is made a Duke, or the French king should nominate another person that is a Duke, ambassador to this court."

This letter announces that it "never was the King's intention to send the Duke of Richmond or any other person as ambassador extraordinary to Paris, prior to that court's sending a person of like quality, and of like public character, to London."]

1749.