add a representation of the national being the only constitutional troops, and to hope we should be exonerated of these foreigners as soon as possible.  Pitt, and that clan, joined him; but the voice of the House, and the desires of the whole kingdom for all the troops we can get, were so strong, that, on the division, we were 190 to 44:  I think and hope this will produce some Hanoverians too.  That it will produce a dismission of the Cobhamites is pretty certain; the Duke of Bedford and Lord Gower arc warm for both points.  The latter has certainly renounced Jacobitism.

Boetslaar is come again from Holland, but his errand not yet known.  You will have heard of another victory,(1152) which the Prussian has gained over the Saxons; very bloody on both sides—­but now he is master of Dresden.

We again think that we have got the second son,(1153) under the name of Macdonald.  Nobody is permitted to see any of the prisoners.

In the midst of our political distresses, which, I assure you, have reduced the town to a state of Presbyterian dulness, we have been entertained with the marriage of the Duchess of Bridgewater(1154) and Dick Lyttelton — she, forty, plain, very rich, and with five children; he, six-and-twenty, handsome, poor, and proper to get her five more.  I saw, the other day, a very good Irish letter.  A gentleman in Dublin, full of the great qualities of my Lord Chesterfield, has written a panegyric on them, particularly on his affability and humility; with a comparison between him and the hauteur of all other lord-lieutenants.  As an instance, he says, the earl was invited to a great dinner, whither he went, by mistake, at one, instead of three.  The master was not at home, the lady not dressed, every thing in confusion.  My lord was so humble as to dismiss his train and take a hackney-chair, and went and stayed with Mrs. Phipps till dinner-time—­la belle humilit`e!

I am not at all surprised to hear of my cousin Don Sebastian’s stupidity.  Why, child, he cannot articulate; how would you have had him educated?  Cape Breton, Bastia, Martinico! if we are undone this year, at least we go out with `eclat.  Good night.

1146) Villas of the Florentine nobility.

(1147) “Now few there were,” says Captain Daniel, in his MS. Memoirs, " who would go on foot if they could ride; and mighty taking, stealing, and pressing of horses there was amongst us!  Diverting it was to see the Highlanders mounted, without either breeches, saddle, or any thing else but the bare back of the horses to ride on; and for their bridle, only a straw rope! in this manner do we march out of England.”  See Lord Mahon’s Hist. vol. iii. p. 449.-E.

(1148) Sir Thomas Watson Wentworth, Knight of the Bath and Earl of Malton. [In April 1746, he was advanced to the dignity of Marquis of Rockingham.  He died in 1750, was succeeded by his second son, Charles Watson Wentworth, second marquis; on whose death, in 1782, all the titles became extinct.]