I am much obliged to Mr. Hamilton’s civilities; but I don’t take too much to myself; yet it is no drawback to think that he sees an compliments your friendship for me.  I shall use his permission of sending you any thing that I think will bear the sea; but how must I send it! by what conveyance to the sea, and where deliver it?  Pamphlets swarm already; none very good, and chiefly grave; you would not have them.  Mr. Glover has published his long-hoarded Medea,(196) as an introduction to the House of Commons; it had been more proper to usher him from school to the University.  There are a few good lines, not much conduct, and a quantity of iambics, and trochaics, that scarce speak English, and yet have no rhyme to keep one another in countenance.  If his chariot is stopped at Temple-bar, I suppose he will take it for the Straits of Thermopylae, and be delivered of his first speech before its time.

The catalogue of the Duke of Devonshire’s collection is only in the six volumes of the Description of London.  I did print about a dozen, and gave them all away so totally that on searching, I had not reserved one for myself.  When we are at leisure, I will reprint a few more, and you shall have one for your Speaker.  I don’t know who is to be ours:  Prowse, they say, has refused; Sir John Cust was the last I heard named:  but I am here and know nothing; sorry that I shall hear any thing on Tuesday se’nnight.

Pray pick me up any prints of lord-lieutenants, Irish bishops, ladies —­nay, or patriots; but I will not trouble you for a snuff-box or toothpick-case, made of a bit of the Giant’s Causeway.

My anecdotes of Painting will scarcely appear before Christmas.  My gallery and cabinet are at a full stop till spring. but I shall be sorry to leave it all in ten days; October, that scarce ever deceived one before, has exhibited a deluge; but it was recovered, and promised to behave well as long as it lives, like a dying sinner.  Good night!

P. S. My niece lost the coronation for only a daughter.  It makes me smile, when I reflect that you are come into the world again, and that I have above half left it.

(195) The Duke of norfolk’s seat at Worksop Manor, Nottinghamshire, was burnt down on the 20th of October 1761.  The damage was estimated at one hundred thousand pounds.  When the Duke heard of it, he exclaimed, “God’s will be done!” and the Duchess, “How many besides us are sufferers by the like calamity!” Evelyn, who visited Worksop in 1654, says, “The manor belongs to the Earle of Arundel, and has to it a faire house at the foote of an hill, in a park that affords a delicate prospect."-E.

(196) Glover’s tragedy of Medea was performed several times at Drury-lane and Covent-garden, for the benefit of Mrs. Yates, whose spirited acting Gave it considerable effect.-E.

Letter 100 To The Hon. H. S. Conway.  Strawberry Hill, Oct. 26, 1761. (page 157)