There!  There end my volumes, to my great satisfaction!  If we are to have any bonfires or illuminations, you will be here to light them Yourselves.  Adieu to Yorkshire!

(883) He means bribed by the then prime minister.

(884) Lord Amherst, the then commander-in-chief, had appointed a cousin of Miss Berry’s to an ensigncy, on his recommendation.

(885) The persons addressed were to arrive in London.

(886) The present Marquis of Hertford.

(887) A person of distinguished abilities, She possessed an extraordinary force of mind, clearness of understanding, and remarkable powers of thought and combination, She retained them unimpaired to the great age of eighty-five, by exercising them daily, both in the practice of mathematics and in reading the two dead languages; of which, late in life, she had made herself mistress.  To those acquirements must be added warm. and lively feelings, joined to a perfect knowledge of the world and of the society of which she had always been a distinguished member.  Mr. Walpole, from misinformation of her conduct towards a friend of his in earlier life, had never done justice to her character—­a mistake, in which she did not participate, relative to him.-M.B.

Letter 412 To The Hon. H. S. Conway.  Berkeley Square, Jan. 10, 1794. (page 555)

I certainly sympathize with you on the reversed and gloomy prospect of affairs, too extensive to detail in a letter; nor indeed do I know any thing more than I collect from newspapers and public reports; and those are so overcharged with falsehoods on all sides, that, if one waits for truth to emerge, one finds new subjects to draw one’s attention before firm belief can settle its trust on any.  That the mass and result are bad, is certain; and though I have great alacrity in searching for comforts and grounds of new hopes, I am puzzled as much in seeking resources, as in giving present credit.  Reasonine is out of the question:  all calculation is baffled:  nothing happens that Sense Or experience said was probable.  I wait to see what will happen, without a guess at what is to be expected.  A storm, when the Parliament meets, will no doubt be attempted.  How the ministers are prepared to combat it, I don’t know, but I hope sufficiently, if it spreads no farther:  at least I think they have no cause to fear the new leader who is to make the attack.

I have neither seen Mr. Wilson’s book(888) nor his answerers.  So far from reading political pamphlets, I hunt for any books, except modern novels, that will not bring France to my mind, or that at least will put it out for a time.  But every fresh person one sees, revives the conversation:  and excepting a long succession of fogs, nobody talks of any thing else; nor of private news do I know a tittle.  Adieu!

(888) It was entitled “A Letter, Commercial and Political, addressed to the Right Hon. William Pitt-, by Jasper Wilson, jun.  Esq.”  The real author was Dr. Currie, the friend of Mr. Wilberforce; who commends it, “as exhibiting originality of thought and force of expression, and solving, finely the phenomena of revolutions.”  See Life, vol. ii. p. 13.-E.