FROM CHARLES FORD, ESQ.
WE expected the grand affair would have been done yesterday, and now every body agrees it will be to night[1]. The bishop of London, lord Bathurst, Mr. Bridges, sir William Wyndham, and Campion, are named for commissioners of the treasury; but I have not sufficient authority for you to depend upon it. They talk of the duke of Ormond for our lord lieutenant. I cannot get the pamphlet back. What shall I do? I wish you would send me the other copy. My lord Anglesey goes next Monday to Ireland. I hear he is only angry with the chancellor, and not at all with the captain.
FROM ERASMUS LEWIS, ESQ.
I SAW lord Harley this morning. He tells me, that he left you horridly in the dumps. I wish you were here; for, after giving a quarter of an hour's vent to our grief for the departure of our don Quixote[2], we should recover ourselves, and receive
- ↑ The dismission of lord Oxford.
- ↑ Lord Oxford, who was just at this time dismissed from his employment as first minister, and immediately succeeded by lord
