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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ...of the Duke, who turned to him (for he made no sort of excuse), and said aloud, "If your Grace is so eager to make your court, that is the way" (pointing towards the king); and then to the Count de Fuentes, " You see priests are the same in this country as in yours." Mr. E. Finch (your representative) has got the place that Sir H. E. (my friend) had--surveyor, I think, of the roads, which is about 6002. a-year.t What then (you will ask) has become of my friend? Oh, he is a vast favourite, is restored to his regiment, and made Groom of the Bedchamber. I have not been The name of the bishop is erased in the MS., but Seeker is meant. See Walpole's History of George III., vol. i. p. 19. "Seeker, the archbishop, who for the first days of the reign flattered himself with the idea of being First Minister in a court that hoisted the standard of religion. He was unwearied in attendance at St. James's, and in presenting bodies of clergy; and his assiduity was so bustling and assuring, that, having pushed atide the Duke of Cumberland to get at the king, his royal highness reprimanded him with a bitter taunt." See, however, a more just and candid account of Seeker in the Editor's note to these Memoirs, vol iii. p. 233. Walpole's notices of Seeker in MS., which I have, are still more flagrantly unjust, and untrue, f Mr. Henry Finch was Member for Cambridge, and his predecessor as surveyor of the king's roads was Sir Henry Erskine. It was Sir Henry Erskine who made the unsuccessful application to Lord Bute for the place of Professor of Modern Languages in favour of Gray, in 1762. See Letters, vol. iii. p. 301, and Mason's note. Sir H. E. was M.P. for Trail, and Lieut.-Col. in the army. See a letter from him to Mr. Grenville...