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470 Lord Hillsborough himself, in his letter dated April 22, 1768, 'laments, that the same moderation had not continued.' I am further convinced, that it is only by recurring to the same principles, that the King can obtain any of those great objects, whatever hands he may employ, and that he might, by doing so in America, secure the commerce and customs of that country, upon any footing Parliament might judge expedient; might secure the growing produce both of the quit rents and post-office; might command a respectful, if not an affectionate language from the several assemblies; besides very possibly a supply, if it should be judged reasonable, in the way of requisition.

"On Thursday night Mr. Charles Fox received a letter from Lord North, acquainting him that the King had ordered a new commission to be made out for the treasury, and that his name should be left out of it. I know nothing from any authority of his successor. The town talks of Lord Beauchamp, or Sir William Meredith, or Mr. Cornwall.

"In the mean time, the public have been amused with a very solemn trial in the House of Lords upon literary property; which ended in the reversal of certainly a very extraordinary decree of Lord Mansfield's, who showed himself the merest Captain Bobadil that, I suppose, ever existed in real life. I ought, instead of being a bad writer, to be a good painter, to convey to your Lordship the ridicule of the scene. You can, perhaps, imagine to yourself the Bishop of Carlisle, an old metaphysical head of a college, reading a paper, not