(1159) The Marquis of Tweedale was one of the discontented Whigs, during the administration of Sir Robert Walpole; on whose removal he came to court, and was made secretary of state, attaching himself to Lord Granville’s faction, whose youngest daughter, Frances, he afterwards married, He was reckoned a good civilian, but was a very dull man.

461 Letter 192 To Sir Horace Mann.  Arlington Street, Jan. 17,1746.,

It is a very good symptom, I can tell you, that I write to you seldom -. it is a fortnight since my last; and nothing material has happened in this interval.  The rebels are intrenching and fortifying themselves in Scotland; and what a despicable affair is a rebellion upon the defensive!  General Hawley is marched from Edinburgh, to put it quite out.  I must give you some idea of this man, who will give a mortal blow to the pride of the Scotch nobility.  He is called Lord chief Justice; frequent and sudden executions are his passion.  Last winter he had intelligence of a spy to come from the French army:  the first notice our army had of his arrival, was by seeing him dangle on a gallows in his mufti and boots.  One of the surgeons of the army begged the body of a soldier who was hanged for desertion, to dissect:  “Well,” said Hawley, “but then you shall give me the skeleton to hang up in the guard-room.”  He is very brave and able; with no small bias to the brutal.  Two years ago, when he arrived at Ghent, the magistrates, according to customs sent a gentleman, with the offer of a sum Of money to engage his favour.  He told the gentleman, in great wrath, that the King his master paid him, and that he should go tell the magistrates so; at the same time dragging him to the head of the stairs, and kicking him down.  He then went to the town-hall; on their refusing him entrance, he burst open the door with his foot, and seated himself abruptly:  told them how he had been affronted, was persuaded they had no hand in it, and demanded to have the gentleman given up to him, who never dared to appear in the town while he stayed in it.  Now I am telling you anecdotes of him, you shall hear two more.  When the Prince of Hesse, our son-in-law, arrived at Brussels, and found Hawley did not wait on him, the Prince sent to know if he expected the first visit?  He replied, “He always expected that inferior officers should wait on their commanders; and not only that, but he gave his Highness but half an hour to consider of it.”  The Prince went to him.  I believe I told you of Lord John Drummond sending a drum to Wade to propose a cartel.  Wade returned a civil answer, which had the King’s and council’s approbation.  When the drummer arrived with it at Edinburgh, Hawley opened it and threw it into the fire, would not let the drummer go back, but made him write to Lord J.  “That rebels were not to be treated with.”  If you don’t think that spirit like this will do-do you see, I would not give a farthing for your presumption.(1160)