I will take the first opportunity to send Dr. Cocchi his translated book; I have not yet seen it myself.

Adieu! my dearest child!  I write with a house full of relations, and must conclude.  Heaven preserve you and Tuscany.

(1023) The death of Lord Orford. — He expired,” says Coxe, “on the 18th of March, 1745, in the sixty-ninth year of his age.  His remains were interred in the parish church at Houghton, without monument or inscription-

“So peaceful rests, without a stone, a name, Which once had honours, titles, wealth and fame!"-E.

(1024) “February 26.-We had an unexpected motion from a very contemptible fellow, Major Selwyn, for an inquiry into the cause of the miscarriage of the fleet in the action off Toulon.  Mr. Pelham, perceiving that the inclination of the House was for an inquiry, acceded to the motion; but forewarned it of the temper, patience, and caution with which it should be pursued."-Mr. Yorke’s MS. Journal.-E.

(1025) He had been ambassador at Constantinople.

(1026) Sir John Eyles, Bart. an alderman of the city of London, and at one time member of parliament for the same.  He died March 11, 1745.-D.

(1027) Charles Noel Somerset, fourth Duke of Beaufort, succeeded his elder brother Henry in the dukedom, February 14, 1745.-D.

(1028) The Hon. James Stuart Mackenzie, second son of James, second Earl of Bute, and brother of John, Earl of Bute, the minister.  He married Lady Elizabeth Campbell, one of the daughters of John, the great Duke of Argyll, and died in 1800.-D.

(1029) Margaret Rolle, Countess of Orford, and Ethelreda Harrison, Viscountess Townshend.

(1030) This was the most successful of all Thomson’s plays; “but it may be doubted,” says Dr. Johnson, " whether he was, either by the bent of nature or habits of study, much qualified for tragedy:  it does not appear that he had much sense of the pathetic; and his diffusive and Descriptive style produced declamation rather than dialogue."-E.

(1031) The author of “The Pleasures of the Imagination;” a poem of some merit, though now but little read.-D.

(1032) Second daughter of Charles, Duke of Richmond.  (Afterwards married to James Fitzgerald, first Duke of Leinster in Ireland.-D.)

1033) It was printed in the public papers.

410 Letter 159
To sir Horace Mann. 
Arlington Street, April 15, 1745.

By this time you have heard of my Lord’s death:  I fear it will have been a very great shock to you.  I hope your brother will write you all the particulars; for my part, you can’t expect I should enter into the details of it.  His enemies pay him the compliment of saying, they do believe now that he did not plunder the public,, as he was accused (as they accused him) of doing, he having died in such circumstances.”  If he had no proofs of his honesty but this, I don’t think this would be such indisputable authority: