You love new nostrums and ]Inventions:  there is discovered a method of inoculating the cattle for the distemper-it succeeds so well that they are not even marked.  How we advance rapidly in discoveries, and in applying every thing to every thing!  Here is another secret, that will better answer your purpose, and I hope mine too.  They found out lately at the Duke of Argyle’s, that any kind of ink may be made of privet:  it becomes green ink by mixing salt of tartar.  I don’t know the process; but I am promised it by Campbell, who told me of it t’other day, when I carried him the true genealogy of the Bentleys, which he assured me shall be inserted in the next edition of the Biographia.

There sets out to-morrow morning, by the Southampton wagon, such a cargo of trees for you, that a detachment of Kentishmen would be furnished against an invasion if they were to unroll the bundle.  I write to Mr. S * * * * to recommend great care of them.  Observe how I answer your demands:  are you as punctual?  The forests in your landscapes do not thrive like those in’ your letters.  Here is a letter from G. Montagu; and then I think I may bid you good-night!

(541) In his “Memoires,” Vol. i. p. 366, Walpole says, “He died suddenly at Paris, where his mistress had sold him to the French court.”  A writer in the Quarterly Review, Vol Ixii. p. 5, states that what he here asserts was generally believed in Paris; for that, in the “M`emoires Secrets,” published in continuation of Bachaumont’s Journal, it is said, on occasion of the Count d’Herouville’s death in 1782, that " he had been talked of for the ministry under Louis xv. and would probably have obtained it, had it not been for ’son mariage trop in`egal.  Il avait `epous`e la fameuse Lolotte maitresse du Comte d’Albemarle, l’ambassadeur d’Angleterre, laquelle servait d’espion au minist`ere de France aupr`es de son amant, et a touch`e en cons`equence jusqu’`a sa mort une pension de la cour de 12,000 livres.’  But if the French court purchased, as he reports, and as is sufficiently probable, instructions of our ambassador, they could have learned from them nothing to facilitate their own schemes of aggression—­nothing but what they knew before; for the policy of England, defective as it might be on other points, had this great and paramount advantage,-that it was open, honest, and straightforward."-E.

(542) Henry Bromley, created Lord Montford of Horse-heath, in 1741.  He married Frances, daughter of Thomas Wyndham, Esq. and sister and heiress of Sir Francis Wyndham, of Trent, in the county of Somerset.-E.

236 Letter 122 To Sir Horace Mann.  Arlington Street, Jan. 9, 1755.