Adieu! here ends volume the first.  Omnia mutantur, sed non mutamur in illis.  Princess Amelia, who has a little veered round to northwest, and by Bedford, does not speak tenderly of her brother—­but if some families are reconciled, others are disunited.  The Keppels are at open war with the Keppels, and Lady Mary Coke weeps with one eye over Lady Betty Mackinsy, and smiles with t’other on Lady Dalkeith;(839) but the first eye is the sincerest.  The Duke of Richmond, in exactly the same proportion, is divided between his sisters, Holland and Bunbury.

Thank you much for your kindness about Mr. T. Walpole-I have not had a moment’s time to see him, but will do full justice to your goodness.  Yours ever, H. W.

Pray remember the dates of my letters—­you will be strangely puzzled for a clue, if one of them has miscarried.  Sir Charles Bunbury is not to be secretary for Ireland, but Thurlow the lawyer:(840) they are to stay five years without returning.  Lord Lorn has declined, and Lord Frederic Campbell is to be lord privy seal for Scotland.  Lord Waldegrave, they say, chamberlain to the Queen.(841)

(831) From the family, not from the rioters.-C.

(832) George the Second.

(833) This alludes to the required promise not to consult Lord Bute.

(834) The Following is from Mr. Stuart Mackenzie’s own account of his removal, in the Mitchell MSS:—­“They demanded certain terms, without which they declined coming in; the principal of which was, that I should be dismissed from the administration of the affairs of Scotland, and likewise from the office of privy seal.  His Majesty answered, that as to the first, it would be no great punishment, he believed, to me, as I had never been very fond of the employment; but as to the second, I had his promise to continue it for life.  Grenville replied to this purpose:  ’In that case, Sir, we must decline coming in.’—­’No,’ says the King, ’I will not, on that account, put the whole kingdom in confusion, and leave it without a government at all; but I will tell you how that matter stands —­that he has my royal word to continue in the office; and if you force me, from the situation of things, to violate my royal word, remember you are responsible for it, and not I.’  Upon that very solemn charge, Grenville answered, ’Sir, we must make some arrangement for Mr. Mackenzie.’  The King answered, ’If I know any thing of him, he will give himself very little trouble about your arrangements for him.’  His Majesty afterwards sent for me to his closet, where I was a very considerable time with him; and if it were possible for me to love my excellent prince now better than I ever did before, I should certainly do it; for I have every reason that can induce a generous mind to feel his goodness for me; but such was his Majesty’s situation at this time, that, had he absolutely rejected my dismission, he would have put me in the most disagreeable situation in the world; and, what was of much higher consequence, he would leave greatly distressed his affairs."-E.