1416) Henry Drax, the Prince’s secretary.  He died in 1755.

(1417) The publication was entitled " Letters to an Honest Sailor.”  Walpole’s inference is not borne out by the letter itself.  Pulteney’s words; are, “Pursue your stroke, but venture not losing the honour of it by too much intrepidity.  Should you make no more progress than you have done, no one could blame you but those persons only who ought to have sent some land-forces with you, and did not.  To their slackness it will be very justly imputed by all mankind, should you make no further progress till Lord Cathcart joins you."-E.

(1418) A washerwoman at the Temple, executed for three murders. (She was executed in March 1733, opposite Mitre Court, in Fleet Street.  A portrait of her is given in the Gentleman’s Magazine for that year.  So great was the public expectation for her confession, that the manuscript of it was sold for twenty pounds.-E.)

(1419) The coffee-house at Florence.

544 Letter 248
To Sir Horace Mann. 
Arlington Street, Feb. 16, 1748.

I am going to tell you nothing but what Mr. Chute has told you already,-that my Lord Chesterfield has resigned the seals, that the Duke of Newcastle has change] his province, and that the Duke of Bedford is the new secretary of state.  I think you need be under no apprehension from this change; I should be frightened enough if you had the least reason, but I am quite at ease.  Lord Chesterfield, who I believe had no quarrel but with his partner, is gone to Bath; and his youngest brother, John Stanhope,(1420) comes into the admiralty, where Sandwich is now first lord.  There seems to be some hitch in Legge’s embassy; I believe we were overhasty.  Proposals of peace were expected to be laid before Parliament, but that talk is vanished.  The Duke of Newcastle, who is going greater lengths in every thing for which he overturned Lord Granville, is all military; and makes more courts than one by this disposition.  The Duke goes to Holland this week, and I hear we are going to raise another million.  There are prodigious discontents in the army:  the town got a list of a hundred and fifty officers who desired at once to resign, but I believe this was exaggerated.  We are great and very exact disciplinarians; our partialities are very strong, especially on the side of aversions, and none of these articles tally exactly with English tempers.  Lord Robert Bertie(1421) received a reprimand the other day by an aide-de-camp for blowing his nose as he relieved the guard under a window;(1422) where very exact notice is constantly taken of very small circumstances.