I am glad for the tomb’s sake and my own, that Sir Giles Allington’s monument is restored.  The draught you have sent is very perfect.  The account of your ancestor Tuer(395) shall not be forgotten in my next edition.  The pedigree of Allington I had from Collins before his death, but I think not as perfect as yours.  You have made one little slip in it:  my mother was granddaughter, not daughter of Sir John Shorter, and was not heiress, having three brothers, who all died after her, and we only quarter the arms of Shorter, which I fancy occasioned the mistake, by their leaving no children.  The verses by Sir Edward Walpole, and the translation by Bland, are published in my description of Houghton.

I am come late from the House of Lords, and am just going to the Opera; so you will excuse me saying more than that I have a print of Archbishop Hutton for you (it @is Dr. Ducarel’s), and a little plate of Strawberry; but I do not send them by the post, as it would crease them:  if you will tell me how to convey them otherwise, I will.  I repeat many thanks to you.

(395) Herbert Tuer, the painter.  After the death of Charles 1. he withdrew into Holland, and it is believed that he died at Utrecht.-E.

Letter 184 To The Earl Of Hertford.  Friday, Dec. 9, 1763. (page 257)

Your brother has sent you such a full account of his transaction with Mr. Grenville(396) that it is not necessary for me to add a syllable, except, what your brother will not have said himself, that he has acted as usual with the strictest honour and firmness, and has turned this negotiation entirely to his own credit.  He has learned the ill wishes of his enemies, and what is more, knows who they are:  he has laughed at them, and found at last that their malice was much bigger than their power.  Mr. Grenville, as you would wish, has proved how much he disliked the violence of his associates, as I trust he will, whenever he has an opportunity, and has at last contented himself with so little or nothing, that I am sure you will feel yourself obliged to him.  For the measure itself, of turning out the officers in general who oppose, it has been much pressed, and what is still sillier, openly threatened by one set; but they dare not do it, and having notified it without effect, are ridiculed by the whole town, as well as by the persons threatened, particularly by Lord Albermarle, who has treated their menaces with the utmost contempt and spirit.  This mighty storm, like another I shall tell you of, has vented itself on Lord Shelburne and Colonel Barr`e,(397) who were yesterday turned out; the first from aide-de-camp to the King, the latter from adjutant-general and governor of Stirling.  Campbell,(398) to Whom it was promised before, has got the last; Ned Harvey,(399) the former.  My present expectation is an oration from Barr`e(400 in honour of Mr. Pitt; for those are scenes that make