Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: est. This Mr. Grenville will construe to you; but out it will go, if I am alive, and retain the honour I now bear; to what effect, the sword, not the pen, must be responsible. I return to-morrow, by ten o'clock, to my oar; and am not without a glimmering hope of sending you an account of myself in a post-chaise, flying to Stowe, on Saturday. W. Pitt. MR. PITT TO LADY HESTER PITT. Half past six. I Had some hope of bringing myself millions of thanks for your note of yesterday, but inexorable business forbids, and binds me this evening to a conference with the Duke of Argyle and Lord Ligonier. Suspense, painful suspense, holds us still in the midst of solicitudes and gloomy doubts; councils abound, while resources present themselves but slowly. The great and only sure refuge, I trust, will supply all, and Providence preserve a nation, in order to render it one day less undeserving of the divine protection. Kiss the loved babes for papa; and may I find you all in perfect health to-morrow night I W. Pitt. MR. PITT TO LADY HESTER PITT. St. James’s Square, Tuesday night July 17, 1759. I Trust this will find you arrived safe and well at Wotton (‘); and may you have found the dear brother and sister with health unshaken under their heavy load of grief! (2) How will your own spirits and scarce-restored strength have borne the sad meeting? My whole heart follows you, my dearest love, and shares your feelings, in a scene so many ways interesting to me, that I must pass from the subject or put an end to writing. Our meeting last night, long and fatiguing as it was, made not the least impression on my ailments; nor has the business of this day, together with a review, of no short duration, brought back any disagreeable symptom. Nothing could make a bett…
