Pray let Mr. Chute have ample accounts of our zeal to figure with at Rome. of the merchants of London undertaking to support the public credit; of universal associations; of regiments raised by the dukes of Devonshire, Bedford, Rutland, Montagu; Lords Herbert, Halifax, Cholmondeley, Falmouth, Malton, Derby,(1121) etc.; of Wade with an army of twenty thousand men; of another about London of near as many—­and lastly, of Lord Gower having in person assured the King that he is no Jacobite, but ready to serve him with his life and fortune.  Tell him of the whole coast so guarded, that nothing can pass unvisited; and in short, send him this advertisement out of to-day’s papers, as an instance of more spirit and wit than there is in all Scotland: 

TO ALL JOLLY BUTCHERS. 
MY BOLD hearts,
The Papists eat no meat on Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, nor
during Lent. 
Your friend,
JOHN STEEL.

Just as I wrote this, a person is come in, who tells me that the rebels have cut off the communication between Edinburgh and the Castle:  the commanders renewed their threats:  and the good magistrates have sent up hither to beg orders may be sent to forbid this execution.  It is modest! it is Scotch!-and, I dare say, will be granted.  Ask a government to spare your town which you yourself have given up to rebels:  and the consequence of which will be the loss of your Castle!-but they knew to what Government they applied!  You need not be in haste to have this notified at Rome.  Tell it not in Gath!  Adieu! my dear Sir.  This account has put Me so out of humour, and has so altered the strain of my letter, that I must finish.

(1119) An excellent prelate, afterwards promoted to the see of Canterbury.  Walpole, in his Memoires, mentioning his death, thus speaks of him:  “On the 13th of March, 1757, died Dr. Herring, Archbishop of Canterbury a very amiable man, to whom no fault was objected; though perhaps the gentleness of his Principles, his great merit, was thought one.  During the rebellion he had taken up arms to defend from oppression that religion, which he abhorred making an instrument of oppression."-D.

(1120) The battle of Soor in Bohemia, gained by the King of Prussia over the Austrians, on the 30th of September, 1745.-D.

(1121) For an account of this transaction see note 1112, letter 181, at p. 440.  The noblemen here mentioned were, William Cavendish, Third Duke of Devonshire; John Russell, fourth Duke of Bedford; John, second and last Duke of Montagu; Henry Arthur Herbert, first Lord Herbert of cherbury of the third creation; George Montagu, third Earl of Halifax; George, third Earl of Cholmondeley; Hugh Boscawen, second Viscount Falmouth; Thomas Wentworth, first Earl of Malton; and Edward Stanley, eleventh Earl of Derby.—­D.

445 Letter 183 To sir Horace Mann.  Arlington Street, Oct. 11, 1745.

This is likely to be a very short letter; for I have nothing to tell you, nor any thing to answer.  I have not had one letter from you this month, which I attribute to the taking of the packet-boat by the French, with two mails in it.  It was a very critical time for our negotiations; the ministry will say, it puts their transactions out of order.