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your own family. You are sensible that I never paid your poorDuke any particular attention, except when I could serve him ;and yet I know the effect of such attentions in conciliating a greatman’s patronage and regard. I often thwarted his propensities,by giving him advice, which I knew would disgust him ; and yetI was well aware of the consequences of such disgust. LordMansfield requested me to do what I could to stop him in hiscareer of play, because, he said, he would soon become a beggar;disregarding the displeasure I might incur, I did what I could:and I remember concluding a letter I wrote to him on his ap-pointment to Ireland , with saying, 4 Let me beseech you, as yourespect your future character and consequence in life, as you loveyour Duchess and your children, not to suffer the castle at Dublinto become another Brookes’s to you.’

“ Such have been my principles, and such my conduct, both inpublic and private life; and if for these I am to be abandoned bymy friends, and proscribed the emoluments of my profession (tothe highest of which there are who think that the Bishop of Lan-daff has as honourable and as professional a claim as any of hisbrethren), the misfortune may fall on me and my family, but thedishonour must rest with others.

“ I write this to you, because I wish you not to be ignorant ofthe motives of my conduct; but I will never condescend to givea word of explanation to Mr. Pitt. I have rendered him someservices and many civilities, and at times when both were ofimportance to him; but I never experienced from him the leastreturn of either. The cause of this neglect is quite unknownto me. If my parliamentary independence is the cause, I canonly say that it must remain for ever; and that Mr. Pitt is desti-