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will allow, is constantly occupied by the education of our children; and the house is so crowded with writingmasters, music-masters, drawing-masters, exercisingsergeants, dancing-masters, &c., that it looks quite like an academy. Eleanor is grown as tall as her mother, and begins to be an able assistant in the management of the others. We should much like to be quietly settled at Beckenham, but in the meantime we are amused, and fully occupied, and not discontented; and only sorry that life slips away so rapidly.

The great news from the East Indies, which I forwarded from this place, will have arrived, I suppose, today at Whitehall. It is very important; and England emerges gloriously from the only embarrassment which affected her situation internally or externally. She is now on the pinnacle of prosperity; I hope that she will have the wisdom to keep herself there. Her old rival presents a curious contrast; and affords an excellent moral lesson to reformers and democrats of every description: that great country, which I saw so rich, so pleasant, so happy and so powerful in the years 1786 and 1787, is now without revenue, without credit, without religion, without morals, without subordination, and even without decency or common sense; but presenting the deplorable picture of a people unprincipled, mad, and undone. Where they are to end I cannot guess; their internal distractions are increasing, and in less than a month the combined armies marching against them will be assembled in full force on their frontiers;

a Eleanor Eden, afterwards Countess of Buckinghamshire.

and this owing to the Revolution, which those fools of the reforming clubs in England and Ireland have been puffing as a model of human wisdom. God help them all!

I fear that I shall never see Ireland again; for there are few human considerations that will tempt me any more to leave England; and yet (putting Abbeville out of the question, which would also be an inducement,) I really would give much to see Carlisle Bridge, and the wall, and the new streets, &c., in Dublin.

When I left England the strongest assurances were given to me that I should be again re-established at Beckenham in the course of the month of August, but I did not build so entirely on these assurances, as to be able to tell you that I shall be able to receive you at Beckenham in September. It will not, however, be my fault if I cannot; and the place is kept in readiness in all respects to receive us at twenty-four hours' notice. We shall again hear from one another before you think of leaving Buxton.

I never understood our friend Lord Fitz Gibbon's policy, or motives, in rejecting the Bill, to prevent combinations. The Bill might have had its faults, but Lord Fitz Gibbon was so little addicted to prancing, that I suppose he had some meaning beyond what I penetrated. Remember me to him and to Lees. Cooke, on becoming a great man, laid me aside, but perhaps will some day take me up again. Our love to Mrs. Beresford.

Believe me, very affectionately,

AUCKLAND.

GENERAL KENDALL TO MR. BERESFORD.

London, Jan. 23rd, 1793.

DEAR SIR,The very instant I received your favour of the 15th instant, I immediately made every possible inquiry about Monsieur Marcellanges, your brother-inlaw, without being able to ascertain his present residence; consequently, where you could direct a letter: many French gentlemen now here, know him personally, several served the last campaign with him, but none of them could trace him further than Spa; amongst many others I applied to Baron de Breteuil, who told me the only sure method for information would be for me to write to Count Charles Damas and to Baron de Rolle, both employed about the Count D'Artois' person. Just as I sat down to execute this advice, I received your letter of the 18th, wherein you inform me of your having intelligence from Monsieur Marcellanges of his being at Dusseldorff. I congratulate you most sincerely on it, yet I fear he is no longer there, as all the unfortunate French emigrants have received orders to quit that Electorate. If so, Monsieur Marcellanges has doubtless left orders at the post-office there for his letters to be sent after him. wherever he may go.

I would be very sorry you thought yourself under the least necessity of a compliment; when and wherever I am happy enough to be of any use, there my services you may command, and more particularly on the present respectable object, and such humane and touching motives as yours are. My feelings are eternally put to severe

trials by the presence of numberless persons in misery, and whom I had seen and known in high rank and in affluent circumstances.

I am, dear Sir,

Your very humble and most obedient servant,

GEO. Y. KEndall.

MR. BURROWES TO MR. BERESFORD.

Wexford, 6th March, 1793.

DEAR SIR,-In the course of an inquiry here into what evidence the widow Davis could give as to the legitimacy of Mr. Flood, I was informed that certain persons in Waterford, whom you can probably prevail upon to attend the trial, are likely to be able to give useful testimony. Mrs. Davis says that Mrs. Gunn of Waterford, mother, I believe, to Mr. Paul, and Mrs. Carew, mother to the Member of that name, both lived in the Castle of Donnybrook at an early period of the Chief Justice's residence there. Mrs. Davis, who certainly could give very material evidence, declares that nothing can induce her to attempt going to Dublin, as it would hazard her life to go ten miles in a carriage. The ladies in Waterford will probably conceal what they know to avoid trouble, unless applied to by some person who has influence over them; I would myself go to Waterford to examine them, but that I doubt whether they would

a Peter Burrowes, called to the bar 1785; King's Counsel 1797.

communicate freely with me. Mrs. Davis's account is, that Mr. Flood lived in a retired manner in the Castle of Donnybrook, and did not introduce his wife to any person from pride, his income being too small to enable him to have intercourse on equal terms with persons of his rank. Such, she says, was the conversation at Donnybrook very long before the birth of Jocelyn; and she says many persons disliked both Mr. and Mrs. Flood on account of their pride and reserve. Such evidence, coming from respectable persons, would, I think, completely account for and overthrow their whole case on the other side, as it might show how consistently with marriage a reputation of illicit cohabitation might arise. Their case will go to circumstantial proof of marriage shortly before the birth of Jocelyn, and, though I am myself persuaded to the contrary, I think they will support it by formidable evidence. Mrs. Davis also says Mr. Henry Blacker, Dorset Street, Dublin, Thomas Twigg, of Merrion Square, Mrs. Minchin, of Frederick Street, the Chancellor's aunt, and Mrs. Tickle, who lived a few years ago in Stephen's Green, ought to be resorted to. If you have any advice or directions to give me I shall receive any letter directed to Wicklow during the assizes.

Yours truly,

PETER BURROWES.

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