with all the ardour of youth, and all the zeal which his filial
affection for his father inspired. His feelings at this period
are best explained by a reference to his letters in the following
collection. Public business and attendance upon the House of
Commons, apart from the interest attached to peculiar questions,
he seems never to have liked. He consequently took very little
part either in debates or committees. In March 1742, on a motion
being made for an inquiry into the conduct of Sir Robert Walpole
for the preceding ten years, he delivered his maiden speech; (25)
on which he was complimented by no less a judge of oratory than
Pitt. This speech he has preserved in his letter to Sir Horace
Mann, of March 24th, 1742. He moved the Address in 1751; and in
1756 made a speech on the question of employing Swiss regiments
in the colonies. This speech he has also himself preserved in
the second volume of his "Memoires." In 1757 he was active in
his endeavours to save the unfortunate Admiral Byng. Of his
conduct upon this occasion he has left a detailed account of his
"Memoires." This concludes all that can be collected of his
public life, and at the general election of 1768 (26) he finally
retired from parliament.

Upon this occasion he writes thus to George Montagu,-" As my
senatorial dignity is gone, I shall not put you to the expense of
a cover; and I hope the advertisement will not be taxed, as I
seal it to the paper. In short, I retain so much iniquity from
the last infamous parliament, that, you see, I would still cheat
the public. The comfort I feel in sitting peaceably here,
instead of being at Lynn, in the high fever of a contested
election, which, at best, Would end in my being carried about
that large town, like a figure of a pope at a bonfires is very