I hear that my sister-Countess is projecting her return, being quite sick of England, where nobody visits her.  She says there is not one woman of sense in England.  Her journey, however, will have turned to account, and, I believe, end in almost doubling her allowance.  Adieu! my dear child; love the Chutes for me as well as for yourself.

(1164) Lord Marchmont, in his Diary of Feb. 9, says, “My brother told me, that on the ministry insisting on Mr. Pitt being secretary at war, and the King having said he should not be his secretary, Lord Bath had gone to the King and told him, though he had resolved never to take a place, yet now, finding his ministers would force a servant on him, rather than he should be so used, he would undertake to get him his money.  The King said. the ministers had the Parliament; Lord Bath said, his Majesty had it, and not they:  and that hereupon the King thanked him; and it was expected the ministers would all be out."-E.

(1165) In 1743, Dr. John Monro was appointed, through the influence of Sir Robert Walpole, to one of the Radcliffe travelling fellowships.  In 1752, he succeeded his father as physician to Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals.  In 1758, he published “Remarks on Dr. Battie’s Treatise on Madness,” in which he vindicated his father’s treatment of that disorder.  He died in 1791.-E.

466 Letter 195 To Sir Horace Mann.  Arlington Street, Feb. 14, 1746.

By the relation I am going to make, you will think that I am describing Turkish, not English revolutions; and will cast your eye upwards to see if my letter is not dated from Constantinople.  Indeed, violent as the changes have been, there has been no bloodshed; no Grand Vizier has had a cravat made of a bowstring, no Janizaries have taken upon them to alter the succession, no Grand Signior is deposed—­only his Sublime Highness’s dignity has been a little impaired.  Oh!  I forgot; I ought not to frighten you; you will interpret all these fine allusions, and think on the rebellion—­pho! we are such considerable proficients in politics, that we can form rebellions within rebellions, and turn a government topsy-turvy at London, while we are engaged in a civil war in Scotland.  In short, I gave you a hint last week of an insurrection in the closet, and of Lord Bath having prevented Pitt from being secretary at war.  The ministry gave up that point; but finding that a change had been made in a scheme of foreign politics, which they had laid before the King, and for which he had thanked them; and perceiving some symptoms of a resolution to dismiss them at the end of the session, they came to a sudden determination not to do Lord Granville’s business by carrying the supplies, and then to be turned out:  so on Monday morning, to the astonishment of every body, the two secretaries of state threw up the seals; and the next day Mr. Pelham, with the rest of the Treasury, the Duke of Bedford with the Admiralty, Lord Gower, privy seal,