The post is really going out, at a most inconvenient hour, half after
nine in the morning, and as usual I neglected writing the night
before. All I can do now is to express the joy I received by your
accounts of my father's improvement in point of health, and to return
you some portion of joy, by telling you, that on Wednesday morning
Mrs. Harrison was safely delivered of a boy. Both mother and child
are in the fairest way--The bay horse is sold--the post chaise tempts
one very much.
I am, Dear Madam,
Most truly yours,
THE MAJOR.
[105] At Southampton Gibbon attended every spring the monthly
exercise of the militia, of which, by the resignation of his
father and the death of Sir T. Worsley (1768), he eventually
became lieutenant-colonel commandant.
[Sidenote: THE GENERAL ELECTION.]
51.
_To his Father._
Newport, I. of W., December the 1st, 1767.