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that which the rest of the Cabinet advised ; for 
they are said to have been all against Mr. Pitt’s 
opinion, except Lord Temple. The effect of this 
resiznation you'll easily imagine. 
all the mouths of all the news-presses in England, 
and, from our boasted unanimity and confidence 
in the Government, we seem to be falling apace 
into division and distrust; in the meantime Mr. 
Pitt seems to have entered, on this occasion, upon 
a new mode of resignation, at least for him, for he 
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It has opened | 
goes to Court, where he is much taken notice of | 
by the King, and treated with great respect by 
every body else, and has said, according to common 
report, that he intends only to tell a plain story, 
which I suppose we are to have in the House of 
Commons. People, as you may imagine, are very 
impatient for his own account of a matter about 
which they know so little at present, and which 
puts public curiosity to the rack. 
Fresh matter for patriots and politicians! Since 
writing the former part of this letter, I have been 
at the coffee-house, and bring you back verbatim, 
avery curious article of the Gazette. “ St. James’s, 
Oct. 9. The Right Hon. William Pitt having re- 
signed the Seals into the King’s hands, his Majesty 
was this day pleased to appoint the Earl of Egre- 
mont to be one of his principal Secretaries of 
State, and in consideration of the great and im- 
portant services of the said Mr. Pitt, his Majesty 
has been graciously pleased to direct that a 
warrant be prepared for granting to the Lady 
Hester Pitt, his wife, a Barony of Great Britain, 
by the name, style and title of Baroness of Chatham 
to herself, and of Baron of Chatham to her heirs 
male: and also to confer upon the said William 
Pitt, Esq. an annuity of 3000/. sterling during his 
own life, that of Lady Hester Pitt, and that of 
their son John Pitt, Esq. !” 
A report of this matter got about the day before, 
and most unfortunately all the newspapers con- 
tradicted it as a scandalous report, set on foot. 
with a design to tarnish the lustre of a certain 
great character. This was the style of the morning 
and evening papers of Saturday, and of those who 
converse upon their authority; so that upon the 
coming in of the Gazette about ten o'clock at night, 
it was really diverting to see the effect it had upon 
most people’s countenances at Dick’s Coffee House, 
where I was; it occasioned a dead silence, and I 
think every body went away without giving their 
opinions of the matter, except Dr. Collier, who has 
always called Mr. Pitt all the rogues he can set 
his mouth on. It appears at present a most unac- 
countable proceeding in every part of it, for he 
seems to have forfeited his popularity, on which 
his consequence depended, for a consideration 
which he might have commanded at any time; and 
yet he does not make an absolute retreat, for in 
that case one should think he would have taken 
the pecrage himself. 
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Lord Temple has resigned the Privy Seal, which 
is commonly said to be intended for Lord Hard- 
wycke ; some comfort to him for the loss of his wife, 
who died a few weeks ago. So that we seem to be 
left in the same hands out of which Mr. Pitt gloried 
in having delivered us; for, as you have probably 
heard before this time, Mr. Legge was removed 
from his place in the spring, for having refused to 
support any longer our German measures, as has 
been commonly said and not contradicted that I 
know of. Every body agrees that he was quite 
| tired of his place, as is generally said on account 
of the coolness between him and Mr. Pitt, the old 
| quarrel with the Duke of Newcastle, and some 
pique between him and Lord Bute on aceount of 
the Hampshire election. People were much di- 
verted with the answer he is said to have made 
to the Duke of Newcastle when he went to demand 
the seal of his office. He compared his retirement 
to Elysium, and told the Duke he thought he 
might assure their common friends there, that the 
should not be long without the honour of his 
Grace's company ; however, he seems to be out in 
his guess, for the Newcastle junto, strengthened by 
the Duke of Bedford, who has joined them, seems 
to be in all its glory again. This appeared in the 
Church promotions the other day, for Dr. Young 
was translated, the master of Bennet made a bishop, 
and Mr. York dean: however, as you will pro- 
bably be glad of a more particular account of our 
Church promotions, I am to tell you that the 
scene opened soon after the king’s accession with 
the promotion of Dr. Squire to the Bishoprick of 
St. David's, upon the death of Ellis. Some cir- 
cumstances of this affair inclined people to think 
that the old ecclesiastical shop was quite shut up; 
for the Duke of Newcastle expressed great dissa- 
tisfaction at Squire’s promotion, and even desired 
Bishop Young to tell every body that he had no 
hand init. Young answered, that he need not give 
himself that trouble, for Dr. Squire had told every 
body so already, which is generally said to be very 
true: for he did not content himself with saying 
how much he was obliged to Lord Bute, but seemed 
to be afraid lest it should be thought he was obliged 
to any body else. What an excellent courtier! 
The next vacancy was made by Hoadly, upon 
which Thomas was translated from Salisbury to 
Winchester, Drummond from St. Asaph to Salis- 
bury, Newcome from Llandaff to St. Asaph, and 
that exemplary divine Dr. Ewer made Bishop of 
Llandaff. These were hardly settled when Sherlock 
and Gilbert dropt almost together. Drummond 
has left Salisbury for York, Thomas is translated 
from Lincoln to Salisbury, Green made Bishop 
of Lincoln, and succeeded in his deanery by 
Mr. York: Hayter is translated from Norwich 
to London, Young from Bristol to Norwich, and 
Newton is made Bishop of Bristol; and I must 
not forget to tell you, that, among several new 
