250 LETTERS TO GILBERT WHITE 



I hear the Duke of Chandos promises to spend a cool £20,000, 

 rather than have Sr Harry defeated, or at least ye Member that 

 he shall recommend. But what do I do wth Elections ? I hate 

 them : they never succeeded wth Me. 



I have not seen You, but by ye small Snatch, in my Journey 

 from London. I was rejoyced at the Opportunity of meeting my 

 old friend Dr Bentham : and it gave me Pleasure that he shew'd 

 a satisfaction in seeing me again. I found his Card on my 

 Chimney at Winchester. I have two great Griefs : One that 

 I cannot ride : the Other, that You are accessible by no other 

 Vehicle. This last is ye highest Reflexion upon You & Mr Etty : 

 God forgive You. I talk'd of You lately wth my Neighbour 

 Airson at St Cross : we abused You on this Subject. You ought 

 to love Us for it, for I should not care a halfpenny about the 

 Boad to Selbourne, if I had not a Regard to Etty, & a Love for 

 You. 



I am, Dear Gil, Afiftely Your's, 



J." Mulso. 



Letter 157. 



The Reverend Mr White, Meonstoke. 



to be left at Mr Newbolt's at Alton. Aug : 26, '74. 



Dear Gil : 



My Man has asked Leave to go to his Uncle at Alton, so 

 I charge him wth this, & am forced to write at a late Time, 

 having had Company to dinner, the Richardses of Hambledon 

 & ye Lilly's of Soberton. I therefore can hardly see, which is 

 better indeed than seeing double. 



Mrs Mulso &ca join me in Thanks to You & Johnny for your 

 friendly Visit. We have received your Books : Mrs Mulso is on 

 her Voyage to Sicily, & I am banishing the Moriscoes fm Spain ; 

 I have likewise been at the ArchBp's Sermon. Thank God it 

 beats our own Bench entirely : It was well for his Grace that he 

 had ye Power of the Crown to influence his Audience for him, for 

 his Oratory would not have done it. It is wonderfull how a 

 Subject so very interesting could be treated in so enervate & 

 efifaete a Manner. In Clark's Acct of Spain, I read a Sermon, 

 at the Burial of Six Kings, Charles ye V. being One predicated. 

 There was some Exclamation, & it was better than this, tho' sad 

 Stuff. I thought that Geddes's Tracts had taken up two Vol. 

 Folio : I was quite surprized. The Subjects did not appear new 

 to me, & the Stile is deplorable ; He likewise shews his Dislike 

 of ye Romish Church in too low & abusive a Method. The good 

 Dr would not be much more likely to convert a Papist than ye 

 Missionaries were to convert the Southern Spaniards. 



