everywhere victorious. The injured parties soon enjoyed the benefit of these conquests; the baron and baroness of Kheichlin were released out of prison and taken under the immediate protection of his highness of Gotha, while the House of Holsendorf were highly elated with the good success of their endeavours. In the mean while the houses were lighted up, bonfires were made, and all the bells rung at Gotha, and at last that duke sent in his bill to the prince of Meinungen for the trouble and charges that he had been at in destroying, burning, ravaging, and plundering his country.

The prince of Meinungen was so much out of humour when this demand was made upon him, that he used very hard words to the person that brought it to him, and absolutely refused to pay one farthing, and has since lodged an appeal at the Diet of Ratisbon against the unjust sentence (as he terms it) of the chamber of Wetzlaer; but notwithstanding this, the troops of Gotha still continue to live at discretion in

the territories of Meinungen, to the entire ruin of those estates, the small profit of the duke their master, and to the great satisfaction of the baron and baroness of Kheichlin, and the House of Holsendorf. I have now finished my relation of this important piece of History, and you may depend upon my being very watchful about the progress of it at Ratisbon. I have established a correspondence there for that purpose only, and as I shall be thoroughly informed of every step that is taken there, I shall not fail to communicate them to you, as fast as they come to my knowledge, not doubting but you will expect them with the utmost impatience. am, dear Sir, with the truest esteem and affection, your most obliged and faithful humble Servant,

I

C. HANBURY WILLIAMS.

TO THE REV. MR. BIRT.

Dresden, 5th July, 1748.

DEAR SIR;

I received your letter by the last post, and you may depend upon my never neglecting any opportunity where I have power to serve you. I have wrote, according to your desire, to the bishop, and have inclosed my letter to him in this. You may also depend upon my recommending you to Mr. Fox, whenever he has power to serve you. That good day we must, I am afraid, both wait for; but, if he lives, it must come. I have no reason to doubt his willingness to serve me and my friends; for he has just done for me what I had most at heart, which was, getting a ship for my brother Tom. I do faithfully assure you, that there is nobody has my esteem and friendship stronger than yourself; and no man is more concerned than I am at your missing Lanwenarth. I al

ways thought that you might succeed there, and I should have been very happy in such a neighbour, whenever the measure of my labour is full and I sit down at Coldbrook.

My brother having, without the least reason, thought fit to give up my election at Leominster, where, if they would but have staid three days, I am certain all opposition would have been dropt, hinders my being able to serve you in the manner I proposed to do. When I went out of England, which, from the instant of Mr. Winnington's death, I was determined to do; and my being thus carelessly left out of parliament will make my stay longer than I intended. When I return there will be few men in England that I shall be gladder to meet than yourself. You see there are some things in this that you ought to keep to yourself, and I do not doubt but that you will do so.

I beg my service to your wife and the worthy family of the Probyns. Tell Kit Bond that I hope we shall know one another more, when

we are old, than we did in our youth, and that I am enlarging my park to tempt my good friends in the forest to wade through the Monmouth dirt. I am going to make a short tour into Sarmachia, which I assure you is not yet civilized: all they yet pretend to is, to be primi barbarorum ; but the Russians dispute that title with them, and I think have the better of them.

Dick, who, I think, does not hanker after the gallows so much as he did, has desired leave to write a paragraph at the bottom of this letter. He begins to be of a little use to me.

As I have no person to pay ready money, so you must take this my promissory note of friendship, which I promise you I will redeem whenever I am able.

Being truly and affectionately your's

CHARLES H. WILLIAMS.

SIR;

If Monmouth gallows will do nobody any more harm than it will me, it is the most inno