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To MONTAGU 19 MARCH 1754 159 To MONTAGU, Tuesday 19 March 1754 Arlington Street, March 19, 1754. YOU will live in the country; and then you are amazed that peo ple use you ill. Don't mistake me; I don't mean, that you deserve to be ill-treated for living in the country; at least, only by those who love you and miss you; but if you inhabited the town a little, you would not quite so much expect uprightness, nor be so surprised at ingratitude and neglect. I am far from disposed to justify the great Cu;1 but when you had declined being his servant, do you wonder that he will not serve your friends? I will tell you what, if the news of today holds at all, which is what no one piece of news of this last fort night has done, you may be worse used by your cousin as soon as you please, for he is one of the first upon the list for Secretary of State in the room of the Duke of Newcastle.2 Now are you again such a rusti cated animal as to suppose, that the Duke is dismissed for inability, on the death of his brother.3 So far from it, it is already certainly known that it was he who supported Mr Pelham; and the impedi ments and rubs thrown in the way of absolute power long ago, were the effects of the latter's timidity and irresolution. The Duke, freed from that clog, has declared himself sole minister, and the K. has kissed his hand upon it. Mr Fox, who was the only man in England that objected to this plan, is to be sent to a prison which is building on the coast of Sussex after the model of Fort l'Eveque, under the di rection of Mr Taaffe.4 Harry Legge is to be Chancellor of the Exchequer; but the de clared favour rests on Lord Duplin.5 Sir George Lyttelton to be Treas urer of the Navy.6 The Parliament is to be dissolved on the fourth of 1. Halifax; his ill-treatment of Montagu Fox, First Lord Holland, 1920, i. 198-212; is not further explained. Cf. post 29 June Mem. Geo. II i. 378-89. 1754- 5. Thomas Hay (1710-87), styled Vet 2. This did not happen; Sir Thomas Dupplin; 9th E. of Kinnoull, 1758; held Robinson took the post. several offices; one of Newcastle's chief ad 3. Henry Pelham died 6 March. visers on questions of party management; 4. See HW to Mann 22 Nov. 1751 for see Lewis B. Namier, Structure of Politics another allusion to a connection between at the Accession of George III, 1929; Eng Taaffe and Newcastle. Fox was offered a land in the Age of the American Revolu Secretaryship of State and the leadership tion, 1930, passim. of the House of Commons in the new gov 6. George Grenville became Treasurer ernment, but withdrew on a dispute with of the Navy; Lyttelton, Cofferer of the Newcastle about the control of the secret Household. service fund; see Earl of Ilchester, Henry .

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