(503) March 9.  Motion in the House of Commons for a secret committee to inquire into our affairs for twenty or twenty-one years.  The Speaker said Ayes had it:  one that was for it divided the House.  The Noes carried it by 244 against 242.  Mr. Sandys at Worcester, Mr. Pulteny at home-his daughter dying.  The Prince at New.  Several of his servants, and several Scotch members, not at the House; nor Lord Winchelsea’s brothers.  Gibbon, Rushout, Barnard voted for the committee, but did not speak.  It is said that the Prince had before this written to Lord Carteret, to desire that Lord Archibald Hamilton and Lord Baltimore might be lords of the Admiralty, and that this had been promised."-Secker, ms.-E.

(504) “Never was there,” writes Mr. Orlebar to the Rev. Mr. Elough, “a greater disappointment.  Those who proved the minority, were so sure of being the majority, that the great Mr. Dodington harangued in the lobby those who went out at the division to desire them not to go away, because there were several other motions to be made in consequence of that:  and likewise to bespeak their attendance at the Fountain, in order to settle the committee.  Upon which Sir George Oxenden, after they found it was lost, whispered -@t friend thus:  I Suppose we were to desire Mr. D. to print the speeches he has just now made in the lobby.”

(505) Charles, commonly called “the proud Duke of Somerset.”  An absurd, vain, pompous man, who appears to have been also most harsh and unfeeling to those who depended on him.-D.

(506) March 10.  Duke of argyle resigned his places to the King.  He gave for a reason, that a proposal had been made to him for going ambassador to Holland, which he understood to be sending him out of the way.”  Secker ms.-E.

(507) The Hun.  John Trevor, second son of Thomas, first Lord Trevor.  He succeeded his elder brother Thomas, as third Lord Trevor, in 1744.-D.

(508) Lord Archibald Hamilton was the seventh and youngest son of Anne, Duchess of Hamilton, in her own right, and of William, Earl of Selkirk, her husband, created by Charles ii.  Duke of Hamilton, for life b.  Lord Archibald married Lady Jane Hamilton, daughter of James, Earl of Abercorn, and by her had three sons; of whom the youngest was Sir William Hamilton, so long the British envoy at the court of Naples.-D.

237 Letter 58
To Sir Horace Mann. 
Monday, March 22, 1742.
[Great part of this letter is lost.]

*** I have at last received a letter from you in answer to the first I wrote you upon the change in the ministry.  I hope you have received mine regularly since, that you may know all the consequent steps.  I like the Pasquinades you sent me, and think the Emperor’s(509) letter as mean as you do.  I hope his state will grow more abject every day.  It is amazing, the progress and success of the Queen of Hungary’s arms!  It is said to-day, that she has defeated