shall prove to be true gout, allow an old practitioner like myself to beg of you to submit, and give it its full time. I know this caution and earnest request is not unnecessary to your zeal for attending the public, and accompanying your friends; but you may ruin your future health by an untimely effort; therefore, I beg, again and again, that you will sit quiet at Ingress. The motions to-morrow are for papers with regard to Falkland's Island, and the Spanish force in the West Indies. Potter's answer is said to be favourable. I believe it is only evasive, and a farther snare. Ever very affectionately yours, CHATHAM. JOHN CALCRAFT, ESQ. TO THE EARL OF CHATHAM. MY DEAR LORD, Ingress, November 21, 1770. So many days should not have passed without most anxious inquiries after my friends at Hayes, had not a pretty severe attack of gout in the stomach confined me to my room since Saturday; though now I am so much better as to propose an airing, with every hope of being able to attend tomorrow's business in parliament. 66 War, inevitable war," says a well-informed correspondent; "Lord Mansfield is frightened to death, and now proclaims every where, that Norton only is fit to be lord chancellor. Lord Barrington is heart-broken at his nonsensical speech (') in parliament; the army affronted, and Hervey full of resentment, at being hung out in the envious colours his Lordship chose for him.” Lord Howe has orders to proceed to the Mediterranean with all despatch. I have received a most affectionate letter from Lord Temple, which gives very great satisfaction to me; not only from the love and respect I bear his Lordship, but because it portends, as I sincerely hope, future good. I hear Lord Mansfield maintained his old doctrine in the court of King's Bench yesterday (2), that juries (1) Junius, under the signature of "Testes," in a letter to the printer of the Public Advertiser of the 19th, gives the following account of Lord Barrington's speech: "A few days ago I was in a large public company, where there happened some curious conversation. The secretary-at-war was pleased to express himself with unusual simplicity and candour. He assured us that, after having carefully considered the subject, he did not know a single general officer (out of near a hundred now in the service) who was in any shape qualified to command the army; and for fear we should not believe him, repeated and enforced his assertion five several times. You will allow, Sir, that at the eve of a foreign war, this is pretty comfortable intelligence for the nation, especially as it comes from authority. He gave us some consolation, however, by assuring us that he and General Hervey would take excellent care of the army; and compared himself (not unhappily) to an old woman curing an ague, with the assistance of Dr. Radcliff.”—Vol. iii. p. 278. (2) In the case of the King against Woodfall, for publishing Junius's letter to the King. were not judges of the criminality or innocence of the fact. I am, with the warmest attachment, Your Lordship's most faithful and affectionate JNO. CALCRAft. THE EARL OF CHATHAM TO JOHN CALCRAFT, ESQ. At dinner, Wednesday, November 21, 1770. I RECEIVE, my dear Sir, this moment your most obliging letter, bringing the unwelcome confirmation of the report of gout; and in the stomach too. My monitory letter will have reached you before this, and, I hope, will have persuaded you to change your purpose for to-morrow. Indeed, the effort so soon is too hazardous: my earnest request to you to sit quiet at home a little longer would easily have had all the hands at table to it. The force in India, according to the repartition, is greatly short of what it should be with such a revenue, and not a balance to the seapoys, should they revolt. War, I conclude, inevitable; and Lord Mansfield quite incurable of his political leprosy. Adieu, in haste, from, dear Sir, Your ever affectionate friend and servant, END OF THE THIRD VOLUME. CHATHAM. MR. MURRAY'S LIST OF HIS MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 1. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CXXVIII., SECOND EDITION. CONTENTS: I. ON LIFE ASSURANCE. II. TRAVELS in NORTH AMERICA. MARRYAT and MURRAY. IV. ON MENDICITY. V. LIFE and CHARACTER of ESCHYLUS. IX. BRITISH POLICY. 2. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LITERARY HISTORY OF THE 15TH, 16TH, and 17TH CENTURIES. Now completed in Four Volumes 8vo. 15s. each. 3. DISPATCHES and CORRESPONDENCE of his GRACE the DUKE of WELLINGTON. Edited by LIEUT.-COLONEL GURWOOD. 4. A LIBRARY EDITION LORD OP BYRON'S WORKS. Beautifully Printed, with a new and copious Index and a Portrait. 8 vols. 8vo., £4. 4s. FOR ILLUSTRATORS OF THE WORKS OF LORD BYRON, a very limited number of Copies of this New Edition in 8 vols., 8vo., have been printed in QUARTO, B |