e] being bestowed on
him by Lord Bute." A fortunate Mauduit, yet a stupidly tragical; had
such a destiny in English History! Hear Walpole a little farther, on
Mauduit, and on other things then resonant to Arlington Street in a way
of their own. "TO SIR HORACE MANN [at Florence]:--

"NOVEMBER 14th, 1760 [tenth night after Torgau].... We are all in guns
and bonfires for an unexpected victory of the King of Prussia over Daun;
but as no particulars are yet arrived, there are doubters."

"DECEMBER 5th, 1760. I have received the samples of brocadella.... I
shall send you a curious Pamphlet, the only work I almost ever knew that
changed the opinions of many. It is called CONSIDERATIONS ON THE PRESENT
GERMAN WAR, ["London: Printed for John Wilkie, at the Bible, in St.
Paul's Churchyard, 1761," adds my poor Copy (a frugal 12mo, of pp.
144), not adding of what edition.] and is written by a wholesale
Woollen-Draper [connected with Wool, in some way] "Factor at Blackwell
Hall," if that mean Draper:--and a growing man ever after; came to be
"Agent for Massachusetts," on the Boston-TEA occasion, and again
did Tracts; was "President of the"--in short, was a conspicuous
Vice-President, so let us define him, of The general Anti-Penalty or
Life-made-Soft Association, with Cause of civil and religious Liberty
all over the World, and such like; and a Mauduit comfortably resonant
in that way till he died [Chalmers, BIOG. DICTIONARY; Nichols, LITERARY
ANECDOTES; &c. &c.]; but the materials are supposed to be furnished by
the faction of the Yorkes. The confirmation of the King of Prussia's
victory near Torgau does not prevent the disciples of the Pamphlet from
thinking that the best thing which could happen for us would be to have
that Monarch's head shot off. [Hear, hear!]--

"There are Letters from the Hague [what foolish Letters do fly about, my
friend!], that say Daun is dead of his wounds. If he is, I shall begin
to believe that the King of Prussia will end successfully at last. [Oh!]
It has been the fashion to cry down Daun; but, as much as the King of
Prussia may admire himself [does immensely, according to our Selwyn
informations], I dare say he would have been glad to be matched with one
much more like himself than one so opposite as the Marshal."

"JANUARY 2d, 1761. The German War is not so popular as you imagine,
either in the Closet or in the Nation." [Walpole, _Letters to Sir Horace
Mann_ (Lond. 1843), i. 6, 7.] (Enough, enoug