(851) William Chetwynd, brother of the two first Viscounts, and himself, in 1767, third Viscount Chetwynd.  He was at this time nearly eighty years of age.-E.

Letter 260 To George Montagu, Esq.  Arlington Street, July 11, 1765. (page 412)

You are so good, I must write you a few lines, and you will excuse My not writing many, my posture is so uncomfortable, lying on a couch by the side of my bed, and writing on the bed.  I have in this manner been what they call out of bed for two days, but I mend very slowly, and get no strength in my feet at all; however, I must have patience.

Thank you for your kind offer; but, my dear Sir, you can do me no good but what you always do me, in coming to see me.  I should hope that would be before I go to France, whither I certainly go the beginning of September, if not sooner.  The great and happy change-happy, I hope, for this country—­is actually begun.  The Duke of Bedford, George Grenville, and the two Secretaries are discarded.  Lord Rockingham is first lord of the treasury, Dowdeswell chancellor of the exchequer, the Duke of Grafton and Mr. Conway secretaries of state.  You need not wish me joy, for I know you do.  There is a good deal more to come,(852) and what is better, regulation of general warrants, and of undoing at least some of the mischiefs these — have been committing; some, indeed, is past recovery!  I long to talk it all over with you; though it is hard that when I may write what I will, I am not able.  The poor Chute is relapsed again, and we are no comfort to one another but by messages.  An offer from Ireland was sent to Lord Hertford last night from his brother’s office.  Adieu!

(852) “There has been pretty clean sweeping already,” wrote Lord Chesterfield on the 15th; and I do not remember, in my time, to have seen so much at once, as an entire new board of treasury, and two new secretaries, etc.  Here is a new political arch built; but of materials of so different a nature, and without a keystone, that it does not, in my opinion, indicate either strength or duration.  It will certainly require repairs and a keystone next winter, and that keystone will and must necessarily be Mr. Pitt."-E.

Letter 262 To George Montagu, Esq.  Strawberry Hill, August 23, 1765. (page 414)

As I know that when you love people, you love them, I feel for the concern that the death of Lady Bab.  Montagu(854) Will give you.  Though you have long lived out of the way of seeing her, you are not a man to forget by absence, or all your friends would have still more reason to complain of your retirement.  Your solitude prevents your filling up the places of those that are gone.  In the world, new acquaintances slide into our habits, but you keep so strict a separation between your old friends and new faces, that the loss of any of the former must be more Sensible to you