(520 Grandson of Dean Prideaux; he was just returned out of Italy, with his son.

241 Letter 60 To Sir Horace Mann.  Downing Street, April 1, 1742.

I received your letter of March 18th, and would be as particular in the other dates which you have sent me in the end of your letter, but our affairs having been in such confusion, I have removed all my papers In general from hence, and cannot now examine them.  I have, I think, received all yours:  but lately I received them two days at least after their arrival, and evidently opened; so we must be cautious now what we write.  Remember this, for of your last the seal had been quite taken off and set on again.

Last Friday we balloted for the Secret Committee.  Except the vacancies, there were but thirty-one members absent:  five hundred and eighteen gave in lists.  At six that evening they named a committee of which Lord Hartington was chairman, (as having moved for it,) to examine the lists.  This lasted from that time, all that night, till four in the afternoon of the next day; twenty-two hours without remission.  There were sixteen people, of which were Lord Hartington and Coke, who sat up the whole time, and one of theirs, Velters Cornwall,(521) fainted with the fatigue and heat, for people of all sorts were admitted into the room, to see the lists drawn; it was in the Speaker’s chambers.  On the conclusion, they found the majority was for a mixed list, but of which the Opposition had the greater number.  Here are the two lists, which were given out by each side, but of which people altered several in their private lists.

The court list.

William Bowles.
Lord Cornbury.(522)
William Finch.(523)
Lord Fitzwilliam. 
Sir Charles Gilmour.
Charles Gore. 
H. Arthur Herbert.(524)
Sir Henry Liddel.(525)
John Plumptree (526)
Sir John Ramsden. 
Strange, Solicitor-General. 
Cholmley Turnor. 
John Talbot.(527)
General Wade.(528)
James West.(529)

The opposition list.

Sir John Barnard. 
Alexander Hume Campbell.(530)
Sir John Cotton. 
George Bubb Doddington.(531)
Nicholas Fazakerley. 
Henry Furnese. 
 Earl of Granird. 
Mr. Hooper.(532)
Lord Limerick.(533)
George Lyttelton.(534)
John Philips-(535)
William Pitt.(536)
Mr. Prouse. 
Edmund Waller.(537)
Sir Watkyn Williams Wynn.

Besides the following six which were in both lists-

These Six, On casting up the numbers, had those marked against their names, and were consequently chosen.  Those with this mark (*) were reckoned of the Opposition.

George Compton 515 William Noell 512 (538) Lord Quarendon 512 (539) Sir John Rushout 516 (540) Samuel Sandys 516 (541) Sir John St. Aubin 518

On casting up the numbers, the lists proved thus:-

Sir John Barnard 268 Nicholas Fazakerley 262 (542) Henry Furnese 282 Earl of Granard 258 Mr. Hooper 265 William Pitt 259 Mr. Prouse 259 Edmund Waller 259 William Bowles 259 Lord Cornbury 262 Solicitor-General 259 Cholmley Turnor 259