Since I wrote this, I hear the Countess has told her mother, that she thinks her husband the best of our family, and me the worst—­nobody so bad, except you!  I don’t wonder at my being so ill with her; but what have you done? or is it, that we are worse than any body, because we know more of her than any body does!  Adieu!

(1123) “At three several councils did Charles propose to march into England and fight Marshal Wade; but as often was his proposal overruled.  At length he declared in a very peremptory manner, ’I see, gentlemen, you are determined to stay in Scotland and defend your country; but I am not less resolved to try my fate in England, though I should go alone.’” Lord Mahon, vol. iii.  P.241.-E.

(1124) Brother of the titular Duke of Perth.

(1125) “As to the Parliament,” writes Horatio Walpole to Mr. Milling, on the 29th of October, “although the address was unanimous the first day, yesterday, upon a motion ’to enquire into the causes of the progress of the rebellion’ the House was so fully convinced of the necessity of immediately putting an end to it, and that the fire should be quenched before we should enquire who kindled or promoted it, that it was carried, not to put the question at this time, by 194 against 112."-E.

(1126) A nonjuror who travelled with Mr. George Pitt.

447 Letter 185 To Sir Horace Mann.  Arlington Street, Nov. 4, 1745.

It is just a fortnight since I wrote to you last:  in all that time the rebellion has made no progress, nor produced any incidents worth mentioning.  They have entrenched themselves very strongly in the Duke of Buccleuch’s park, whose seat, about seven miles from Edinburgh, they have seized.  We had an account last week of the Boy’s being retired to Dunkirk, but it was not true.  Kelly,(1127) who is gone to solicit succour from France, was seized at Helvoet, but by a stupid burgher released.  Lord Loudon is very brisk in the north of Scotland, and has intercepted and beat some of their parties.  Marshal Wade was to march from Newcastle yesterday.

But the rebellion does not make half the noise here that one of its consequences does.

Fourteen lords (most of them I have named to you), at the beginning, offered to raise regiments; these regiments, so handsomely tendered at first, have been since put on the regular establishment; not much to the honour of the undertakers or of the firmness of the ministry, and the King is to pay them.  One of the great grievances of this is, that these most disinterested colonels have named none but their own relations and dependents for the officers, who are to have rank; and consequently, both colonels and subalterns will interfere with the brave old part of the army, who have served all the war.  This has made great clamour.  The King was against their having rank, but would not refuse it; yet wished that the House of Commons would address him not to grant it.  This notification of his royal mind