138 LETTERS TO QILBKBT WHITE 



no Compliments to your own Disadvantage. Can you not, now 

 that one of your Opposers is gone, make a Push for Harry at the 

 next Election ? I cannot help feeling sorry for Tom Mander, 

 tho' he did not turn out ye Man I could have wish'd ; for my 

 Memory, you know, turns back 



— to his happier Hour 

 Of social Freedom, ill-excbang'd for Power." 



We have been here at the Bishop's ever since last Monday 

 was three Weeks, Mrs Mulso miscarried here the first week of 

 our coming to Town, & we are obliged to stay till next Saturday, 

 when I hope She will be able to travell without any Prejudice. 

 Had it not been for this accident I might have been the Father 

 of two more Children ; but it better suits wth a Vicarage to have 

 but one at a Time ; so if it will be of no Prejudice to my Wife's 

 Health, it may be better as it is. Our little Jenny is very well 

 wth her Grandpapa at Sunbury. Mrs Mulso has here an 

 Opportunity of mentioning Betty Baker, but has not yet met wth 

 anything that would fit her. 



I have had some little Keturns of my old Complaint, but not 

 very severe : The Season is chilly & dull ; the chearfuU leaf is 

 gone, & the Poor ravage even the Bough. — But, alass, why do I 

 speak of this only ? With You, my dear Friend, the good Tree 

 is fallen that shelter'd so many under his hospitable Arms. Non 

 deficit Alter indeed ; but if he was a little more aureus, your poor 

 neighbourhood would perhaps never miss their old Patron, so 

 riveted is your natural Partiality to Selbourne. You tempt us 

 wth your kind Invitation, but it is a long Time to look thro' to 

 next Autumn ; tho' when it is past, it will be but as a Moment. 

 I hope your Bror Thomas recovers apace, & that your Fire Side 

 is well ; I pray God not to take away, but to increase your 

 Friends & your Means ; such friends as do not Come ineerly for 

 ye Increase of your means. I called on your Bro : & Mrs B : 

 White last Sunday after I had preached at St. Bride's. I was 

 pleased to be remembered by little Ben: & Jenny : I admired Mr 

 Yalden's Widow who was there, She is very handsome.'" I had 

 an opportunity of asking after all the Branches of your Family. 



I wish You Joy of our having finished the Campaigns of this 

 Year wth a good deal of Success ; & of ye King's being restored 

 by a slight Fit of the Gout to good Health, which is a very 

 material Circumstance of public Composure and Happiness. 

 Have you seen Dr Blackstone's introductory Lecture, as Vinerian 



and only retaioed one farm, the gross rent of which was £34 at this time. 

 Except £300, which Mr. Holt left him in 1746, he had no other " patri- 

 monium," and consequently was legally entitled to retain his Fellowship. 



* Mrs. William Yalden, nde Mary Leach, was married to Thomas White, 

 her late husband's partner in business, shortly after the date of this letter. 



