(1060) Prince Ferdinand’s victory was the celebrated battle of Minden, won from the French on the 1st of August; the King of Prussia’s defeat was that of Kunersdorf, lost to the Russians on the 12th of August.-D.

(1061) Count Bruhl, favourite and prime minister of Augustus the Third, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony.

(1063) Lord George Sackville, disgraced at the battle of Minden.

(1064) Charles the Third, King of Naples, who had just become King of Spain, by the death of his elder brother.-D.

508 Letter 332 To Sir Horace Mann.  Arlington Street, Sept. 13, 1759.

With your unathletic constitution I think you will have a greater weight of glory to represent than you can bear.  You will be as `epuis`e as Princess Craon with all the triumphs over Niagara, Ticonderoga, Crown Point, and such a parcel of long names.  You will ruin yourself in French horns, to exceed those of Marshal Botta, who has certainly found a pleasant way of announcing victories.  Besides, all the West Indies, which we have taken by a panic, there is Admiral Boscawen has demolished the Toulon squadron, and has made you Viceroy of the Mediterranean.  I really believe the French will Come hither now, for they can be safe nowhere else.  If the King of Prussia should be totally undone in Germany, we can afford to give him an appanage, as a younger son of England, of some hundred thousand miles on the Ohio.  Sure universal monarchy was never so put to shame as that of France!  What a figure do they make! they seem to have no ministers, no generals, no soldiers!  If any thing could be more ridiculous than their behaviour in the field, it would be in the cabinet!  Their invasion appears not to have been designed against us, but against their own people, who, they fear, will mutiny, and to quiet whom they disperse expresses, with accounts of the progress of their arms in England.  They actually have established posts to whom the people are directed to send their letters for their friends in England.  If, therefore, you hear that the French have established themselves at Exeter or Norwich, don’t be alarmed, nor undeceive the poor women who are writing to their husbands for English baubles.

We have lost another Princess, Lady Elizabeth.(1065) She died of an inflammation in her bowels in two days.  Her figure was so very unfortunate, that it would have been difficult for her to be happy, but her parts and application -were extraordinary.  I saw her act in “Cato” at eight years old, (when she could not stand alone, but was forced to lean against the side-scene,) better than any of her brothers and sisters.  She had been so unhealthy, that at that age she had not been taught to read, but had learned the part of Lucia by hearing the others study their parts.  She went to her father and mother, and begged she might act.  They put her off as gently as they could—­she desired leave to repeat her part, and when she did, it was with so much sense, that there was no denying her.