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and many other good Whigs, were compelled to contribute to thesupport of the American war, which we reprobated from thefirst as impolitic and unjust. The minority in all such cases isrightly concluded by the majority.

“ I do not believe that the next session of Parliament will passas easily as the last has done. The country gentlemen think thatthey are not treated with sufficient respect, and I wish there be nomischief brewing from other quarters. I neither am nor desire tobe in the secret, but I can see a little into futurity as well as othermen ; and, without looking into futurity, I see some things whichI do not like. I told you when I would not come up to voteagainst Mr. Fox’s India Bill, out of regard to a part of the thenadministration, that a new ministry would be but a new coalition.I think I then said nothing amiss, for Charles Jenkinson is becomeLord Hawkesbury !!! — In my attachment to yourself,

“ I am your unalterably affectionate friend,

“ R. Landaff.”

I will put down the Duke’s answer to this letter; not becauseit contains a compliment to myself, but because it shows howearnest lie was in whatever he thought respected the public good,and how forcibly he both thought and wrote, far beyond the con-ceptions of those who knew him not.

“ My dear Lord, Phoenix Park, Oct. 7. 1786.

“ I have to return you my best thanks for the trouble youhave given yourself to go into the question of the disturbanceswhich have for some time agitated the province of Munster, butwhich appear now to be nearly, if not in toto, happily subsided.

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