Adieu! my dear child; are you quite well?  I trust the summer will perfectly re-establish you.

(625) Mr. Sandys, chancellor of the exchequer.

(626) Ceretesi.

(627) Count Richcourt.

(628) General Wachtendonck, commander of the Queen of Hungary’s troops at Leghorn.

(629) George Pitt, of Strathfieldsea:  he had been in love with Lady Charlotte Fermor, second daughter of Lord Pomfret, who was afterwards married to William Finch, vice-chamberlain. (Mr. Pitt was created Lord Rivers in 1776.  In 1761 he was British envoy at Turin in 1770, ambassador extraordinary to Spain.  He died in 1803.-D.)

(630) Of his love for lady Sophia Fermor.-D.

(631) Mr. Pitt was very handsome, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu had liked him extremely, when he was in Italy.

267 Letter 74 To Sir Horace Mann.  Downing Street, June 30, 1742.

It is about six o’clock, and I am come from the House, where, at last, we have had another Report from the Secret Committee.  They have been disputing this week among themselves, whether this should be final or not.  The new ministry, thanked them! were for finishing; but their arguments were not so persuasive as dutiful, and we are to have yet another.  This lasted two hours and a half in reading, though confined to the affair of Burrel and Bristow, the Weymouth election, and secret-service money.  They moved to print it; but though they had fetched most of their members from Ale and the country, they were not strong enough to divide.  Velters Cornwall, whom I have mentioned to you, I believe, for odd humour, said, “ie believed the somethingness of this report would make amends for the nothingness of the last, and that he was for printing it, if it was only from believing that the King would not see it, unless it is printed.”  Perhaps it may be printed at the conclusion; at least it will without authority-and so you will see it.

I received yours of June 24, N. S. with one from Mr. Chute, this morning, and I will now go answer it and Your last.  You seem still to be uneasy about my letters, and their being retarded.  I have not observed, lately, the same signs of yours being opened; and for my own, I think it may very often depend upon the packet-boat and winds.

You ask me if Pultney has lately received any new disgusts.-How can one answer for a temper so hasty, so unsettled!-not that I know, unless that he finds, what he has been twenty years undoing, is not yet undone.

I must interrupt the thread of my answer, to tell you that I hear news came last night that the States of Holland have voted forty@seven thousand men for the Assistance of the Queen,(632) and that it was not doubted but the States—­General would imitate this resolution.  This seems to be the consequence of the King of Prussia’s proceedings-but how can they trust him so easily?

I am amazed that your leghorn ministry are so wavering; they are very old style, above eleven days out of fashion, if they any longer fear the French:  my only apprehension is, lest these successes should make Richcourt more impertinent.