To Dr. Wharton. On the Change of Ministry. On the King of Prussia. Memoires de M. la Porte, and Madame To Ditto. On the Change of Ministry To Mr. Mason. On his own Feelings On Caractacus. On Mason's Elegy. Declines the Office of Poet Laureat. 183 To Dr. Wharton. Mentions his present Employments.. 187 To Ditto. On the Loss of Dr. Wharton's Son.......... 189 - To Ditto. Consoles him on his situation ust returned hither from town, where I have etter than a fortnight, (including an excurhat I made to Hampton-Court, Richmond, wich, and other places,) and am happily met etter from you, one from Tuthill, and another Trollope. As I only run over Dr. Andrew's ers hastily in a Coffee-house, all I could judge that they seemed very unfavourable on the = to our cause, and threw every thing into ands of a visitour, for which reason I thought might have been concealed, till the Attorneyral's opinion arrived, which will perhaps raise pirits of such, as the other may have damped le; or leave room at least to doubt, whether matter be so clear on the Master's side, as ew would have it. You can't suppose that s in the least uneasy about Mr. Brown's for, who wants nothing but a foot in height mis own hair, to make him a little old Roman: OL. III. with two dozen such I should not hesitate to face an army of heads, though they were all as tall as Dr. Adams. I only wish every body may continue in as good a disposition as they were; and imagine, if possible, Roger* will be fool enough to keep them so. I saw Trollope for about an hour in London; and imagining he could not be left in the dark as to your consultations, I mentioned, that I had cast an eye over Andrew's papers, and that it was not so favourable as we hoped. He spoke however with horrour of going to law; with great passion of the master; and with great pleasure of himself for quitting a place, where he had not found a minute's ease in, I know not how long: yet I perceive his thoughts run on nothing else; he trembled while he spoke; he writes to me here on the same subject; and after abusing Roger, he adds, Whartoni rubro hæc subscribe libello. My evenings have been chiefly spent at Ranelagh and Vauxhall, several of my mornings, or rather noons, in Arlington-street,† and the rest at the tryal of the Lords. The first day I was not there, and only saw the Lord High Steward's parade in *** Peers going; the second and third **** were all in their robes * * * * * by their wearing bag-wigs and hats instead of coronets. The Lord Dr. Roger Long, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge. + At Mr. Walpole's. Compare H. Walpole's Lett. to H. Mann on these Trials. Aug. 1, 1746. Lett. clxi. |