300 'OLD q' 



I told the Duke of Grafton that you was ready to order 

 your post-horses whenever you were really wanted. Fare- 

 well, ray dear George. — Yours very truly and affectionately, 



March and R. 



APPENDIX Al. 



November 1766. 



My dear George, — Jack Shelley has kissed hands for 

 Lord Edgecombe's place. He was offered to be of the 

 Bedchamber, which he has refused, and wants to have 

 the Post Office, which they won't give him. 



I find it is arranged that we shall be obliged to send 

 troops into North America,^ to bring them to a proper 

 state of obedience. It is whispered about that the 

 Cavendish's and Rockingham's friends will take the first 

 opportunity they can to be hostile to Government, and 

 likewise that Norton and Wedderburne will certainly 

 oppose : if these things are so, we may perhaps have some 

 more convulsions in the state. 



The Duke and Duchess of Bedford are gone to Woburn. 

 That set seems to be quite separated from Granville, but 

 have made no bargain yet. I suppose we shall not know 

 much what turn these things will take till after the holi- 

 days. I wish every day more and more that I had come 

 to you. 



I have not yet received some champagne that Monsieur 

 de Prissieux has sent me, but I expect it every day, and 



^ The eve of the American War of Independence. — J. II. R. 



