це June of 17 1765 Richmond Lodge. Mr Pitt of this moment with joy receive His Majestien the utmos? commands to desire you would attend Wim at the Queen-house day. at ten in the morning stairs he allows for the infirmsies of the gout but also knok where mem J is, on Wednes William hatham Correspondence, Vol II. John Murray, Albemarle 5o London, 1838. 18 Mr Pitt Your very Richmond Lodge July 7t1⁄2 1766. Dutiful & Handsome conduct the last summer makes Me desirous of having Your thoughts Low Able & Dignifyd Ministry may for an be found, I desire therefore You will. this salutary purpose to Town I cannot conclude without expressing entirely my ideas concerning how come the Bases on which а new Administration should be erected, are nant to the opinion You gave on consonant that subject in Pashamnent a few days before You set out for Somerset Shire. I convey this through the Channel of the Earl ton, as there is: of Northington, no Mar in my whom I sothoroughly rely & who I know agrees with Me to perfectly in the contents of this letter 19 20 London 7. of Maly 1766 Kings "I have the Kings Commend to convey to you, this Majesty's Note meloved Northington Granby. Alege Gorge Onslow. Zunshire Albemarle CORRESPONDENCE, &c. &c. MR. PITT TO LADY HESTER PITT. Thursday night, 11 o'clock, - on I WRITE before I go to bed, in order to open the morning at Hayes with the joyful tidings of this day. The Austrians, about seventy thousand men, attacked the Prince of Bevern near Breslau in Silesia-strong about thirty thousand men. the 22d past, about seven in the morning. After an action of four hours, the Prince of Bevern broke the Austrians, and pursued them twelve English miles that night; and as far the next day, before he returned. The Austrians retreated in three divisions one of those divisions made for Lignitz, and, miraculous! the King of Prussia, in person, was got within three marches of that body when the news came away. My hero had, chemin faisant, cleared Lusatia of generals Marshall and Haddick, beat in the rear, killed about four hundred men, and made prisoners about six hundred, and then pierced into Silesia. Marshal Keith, as out of the |