the Duke of Richmond did exceedingly well, and the Duke of Bolton most wonderfully. In short, all goes well enough. The Chancellor still holds on; which I hold to be candidly foolish. (1) The Lord deliver you from gout and all other evils! With every good wish, &c. &c.

TEMPLE.

JOHN CALCRAFT, ESQ. TO THE EARL OF CHATHAM.

Sackville Street, January 16, 1770.

MY DEAR LORD,

I HAD the honour to receive your Lordship's letter late last night: so kind, so able, so noble too, was the style of it, that I cannot forbear to express my feelings thereupon. I did not fail to communicate these manly sentiments to Lord Granby, who was exceedingly affected with them, and though his Lordship could not prevail on himself to press the audience at Buckingham House to-day, he assures me of his firmness in the closet to-morrow, and that no persuasion shall make him depart from the execution of those resolutions he made in your

(1) On the following day, Lord Camden received a message from the secretary of state's office, desiring, in the King's name, that he would deliver up the seals that evening at seven o'clock; which he accordingly did into his Majesty's own hands.

Lordship's presence on Sunday, and still adheres to, both for the sake of his own honour and his country.

Lord Roos is just come from Belvoir Castle, where he left the Duke of Rutland in raptures at the part Lord Granby has taken. My Lord sent a servant yesterday to inform his Grace of what is to follow to-morrow, and says it will be a satisfaction to receive his father's approbation (which he is sure of) before he executes, though nothing could or should alter his intention; and, indeed, the Duke of Rutland's eagerness in the cause of the constitution is not to be described. I can assure your Lordship, from good authority, that Mr. Yorke has refused the seals. I am with the utmost respect, Your Lordship's

most obliged, affectionate,

and faithful humble servant,

J. CALCRAFt.

THE EARL OF CHATHAM TO JOHN CALCRAFT, ESQ.

Hayes, Tuesday night, January 17, 1770.

MY DEAR SIR,

I AGAIN take my pen, which I can hardly use, to return you a thousand thanks for your obliging letter, in a moment of the most anxious expectation, concerning an event the most interesting to all my public and private wishes. The assurances renewed

to me so kindly by Lord Granby's goodness, on this important article, put my heart enough at ease to sleep to-night upon the hope of to-morrow; a pillow which I may well lay my anxieties to rest upon for one long night. May this great tomorrow fix my hopes, that the country may yet be saved, and give me the happy certainty that the name of Granby will be as revered by the friends of the constitution, as it is honoured and feared by the nation's enemies in the field! I beg you will be so good as to present my respectful and affectionate compliments to the Marquis, with many acknowledgments for his goodness in pardoning my too free, but most sincere sentiments.(1)

Mr. Yorke's refusal is of moment; and I can readily believe it, from my opinion of his prudence and discernment. No man with a grain of either would embark in a rotten vessel in the middle of a tempest, to go he knows not whither. I wish our noble and amiable Chancellor had not been so candid as to drag the great seal for one hour at the heels of a desperate minister, after he had hawked them about with every circumstance of indignity to the holder of them.(2) I am not without

(1) On the morning of this day, the Marquis of Granby resigned all his situations, except his regiment of Blues.

(2) In the course of this day, Mr. Yorke was appointed Lord Chancellor, and a patent was ordered to be made out, creating him a peer, by the title of Baron Morden, but it was not completed before his death; which took place three days after he had received the great seal.

hopes of being able to get to London to-morrow; but my state is too precarious to fix overnight. A thousand thanks to you, my dear Sir, for the corrected list, where additional names of credit appear, and a thousand times good night from, dear Sir,

Your most faithful and affectionate
CHATHAM.

JOHN CALCRAFT, ESQ. TO THE EARL OF CHATHAM.

Sackville Street, Saturday, 4 o'clock.

MY DEAR LORD,

[January 20, 1770.]

I CAN from authority assure your Lordship, that General Conway has refused the ordnance, adding that he will take none of Lord Granby's spoils. Lord Chatham's conference has had great weight with the Duke of Newcastle, and it looks as if he would, after a little more consideration, embark with us; but he did not to-day decide.

The Chancellor is very dangerously ill. Sir Jeffrey Amherst is gone out of town, as I hear, without any positive answer, and much dissatisfied. Don't be surprised to find the Duke of Grafton's ground at court but tender. Sir Percy Brett and Sir George Yonge have both resigned, by letter to the Duke of York, this morning, after telling Sir Edward Hawke they

thought it for the honour of Lord Chatham and their country's quiet. I am, &c.

J. CALCRAFT.(')

(1) On Tuesday, the 22d of January, the Marquis of Rockingham moved, in the House of Lords, "That the House will take into consideration the state of the nation on Thursday next." The speeches of the Duke of Grafton and of Lord Chatham upon this occasion were first printed by Almon, in 1792, from a report taken by Sir PHILIP FRANCIS. The parallel passages, contained in JUNIUS, are also here continued. After the motion had been opposed by the Duke of Grafton*,

"The Earl of Chatham said,—" My Lords, I meant to have risen immediately to second the motion made by the noble lord. The charge which the noble duke seemed to think affected himself particularly, did undoubtedly demand an early answer; it was proper he should speak before me, and I am as ready as any man to applaud the decency and propriety with which he has expressed himself.

"I entirely agree with the noble lord, both in the necessity of your Lordships concurring with the motion, and in the principles and arguments by which he has very judiciously supported it. I see clearly that the complexion of our government has been materially altered; and I can trace the origin of the alteration up to a period which ought to have been an era of happiness and prosperity to this country.

"My Lords, I shall give you my reasons for concurring with the motion, not methodically, but as they occur to my mind. I may wander, perhaps, from the exact parliamentary debate; but I hope I shall say nothing but what may deserve your attention, and what, if not strictly proper at present, would be fit to be said, when the state of the nation shall come to be considered. My uncertain state of health must plead my excuse. I am now in some pain, and very probably may not be able to attend my duty when I desire it most, in this house. I thank God, my Lords, for having thus long preserved so inconsiderable a being as I am, to take a part upon this great occasion, and to contribute my endeavours, such as they are, to restore, to save, to confirm the constitution.

"Sir PHILIP heard the debate and took notes of the Duke's speech in January 1770. At the end of that year JUNIUS, mentioning his Grace's "talent for speaking in public," says, "I have often had the honour of hearing him.”— Junius Identified, p. 322.