804 'OLD Q' 



The King was at the Opera, which he scarce ever 

 misses, and Coventry was in waiting. Lord Temple has 

 told him that this Administration will not last two months, 

 but that he is quite attached to the King, and will go with 

 it as long as it lasts. I think there is no danger, for if the 

 King is in earnest there will be support enough. By the 

 next post I shall let you know how everything is settled. 

 My dear George, adieu ! 



APPENDIX D L 



The Duke of Bedford is gone back to Woburn, so that 

 negotiation is at an end ; I am sorry for it, and so are they 

 too. The Duke of Bedford wanted Lord Lome to be made 

 a peer/ and I believe would have stood out for that as 

 much as for any other thing ; but, in short, he could have 

 nothing in his own way. Wedderburne does better than 

 ever in the House of Commons ; he and Norton both 

 oppose. I fancy, by Jenkinson coming into the Admiralty, 

 that none of Lord Bute's friends will be long in opposition. 

 Lord Beauchamp, they say, is to have the other Windsor. 

 Egmont is more gloomy than ever. 



Pray bring me a dozen of the kind of gloves I bought 

 at Dulais. They are lined with a kind of wash-leather, 

 and the tops were lined in the inside with silk. I am 

 sure they will remember them, for they sent me some of 

 them after I left Paris. I am going to ride out, and will 



^ Made an English peer, by the title of Baron Sundridge of Coomb 

 Bank in Kent. 



