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Letters to Sir Horace Mann, Ed. by Lord Dover
Letters to Sir Horace Mann Ed by Lord Dover Author:Horace Walpole General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1833 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Newgate. One is forced to travel, even at noon, as if one was going to battle. Mr. Chute is as much yours as ever, except in the article of pen and ink. Your brother transacts all he can for the Lucchi, as he has much more weight there than Mr. Chute. Adieu ! LETTER CCXXXVIII. Arlington Street, May 13, 1752. By this time you know my way, how much my letters grow out of season, as it grows summer. I believe it is six weeks since I wrote to you last; but there is not only the usual deadness of summer, to account for my silence ; England itself is no longer England. News, madness, parties, whims, and twenty other causes, that used to produce perpetual events, are at an end ; Florence itself is not more inactive. Politics, Like arts and sciences, are travelled west. They are got into Ireland, where there is as much bustle to carry a question in the House of Commons, as ever it was here in any year forty-one. Not that there is any opposition to the King's measures; out of three hundred members, there has never yet been a division of above 28 againstthe government: they are much the most zealous subjects the King has. The Duke of Dorset has had the art to make them distinguish between loyalty and aversion to the Lord Lieutenant. With the late Mr. Whithed's brothers, who scrupled paying a small legacy and annuity to his mistress and child. I last night received your's of May 5th ; but I cannot deliver your expressions to Mr. Conway, for he and Lady Ailesbury are gone to his regiment in Ireland for four months, which is a little rigorous, not only after an exile in Minorca, but more especially unpleas...« less