(854) Dr.Jeremiah Milles.  In 1765 he was appointed president of the Society of Antiquaries.  The Doctor was a strenuous advocate for the authenticity of Rowley’s Poems; “thereby proving himself,” says the author of the Pursuits of Literature, “a pleasant subject for that chef-d’oeuvre of wit and poetry, the ‘Archaeological Epistle,’ written by Mr. Mason."-E.

(855) Antony Widville, Earl Rivers, Lord Scales and Newsells.  The dismal catastrophe of this accomplished lord, in his forty-first year, is well known—­

“—­Rivers, Vaughan, and Grey Ere this lie shorter by the head at Pomfret.”

The book is supposed to be the second ever printed in England by Caxton:  it contains an illumination representing the Earl introducing Caxton to Edward the Fourth, his Queen, and the Prince.  “The most remarkable circumstance attending it,” says Walpole, in his Noble Authors, “is the gallantry of the Earl, who omitted to translate part of it, because it contained sarcasms of Socrates against the fair sex."-E.

410 Letter 252 To Sir Horace Mann.  Arlington Street, Jan, 11, 1758.

You express so much concern and tenderness for Mr. Conway and me in your letter of Dec. 17th, which I received two days ago, that I am impatient and happy to tell you, that after keeping the report of the court-martial a week, the King yesterday approved the sentence, which is a full acquittal of Sir John Mordaunt, and was unanimous.  If the commander-in-chief is so fully cleared, what must the subordinate generals be?  There are still flying whispers of its being brought into Parliament in some shape or other, but every public and private reason, I say reason, forbid it.  Sure this is not a season to relume heats, when tranquility is so essential and so established!  In a private light who can wish to raise such a cloud of enemies as the whole army, who murmur grievously at hearing that an acquittal is not an acquittal; who hold it tyranny, if they are not to be as safe by their juries as the rest of their fellow-subjects; and who think a judgment of twenty-one general officers not to be trifled with.  I tremble if any rashness drives the army to distinguish or think themselves distinguished from the civil government.

You are by this time, I suppose, in weepers for princess Caroline;(856) though her state of health has been so dangerous for years, and her absolute confinement for many of them, her disorder was in a manner new and sudden, and her death unexpected by herself, though earnestly her wish. her goodness was constant and uniform, her generosity immense, her charities most extensive—­in short I, no royalist, could be lavish in her praise.  What will divert you is, that the Duke of Norfolk’s and Lord Northumberland’s upper servants have asked leave to put themselves in mourning, not out of regard for this admirable Princess, but to be more sur le bon ton.  I told the Duchess I supposed they would expect her to mourn hereafter for their relations.