[262] _I.e._ Mr. Isaac Holroyd and Miss Sarah Holroyd.
227.
_To J. B. Holroyd, Esq._
Nov. 29th, 1774.
All safe and well. I am just returned from the Cock-pit. The K.'s
speech vigorous with regard to America.[263] Our address a loyal Echo.
I have talked with Barré about Tremlet, he is an intimate friend
both of the Colonel and of Dunning, and they think him equal to all
his Bath Atchievments.--Lord Clive[264] _certainly_ cut the jugular
vein with a pen knife--it is called a feaver frenzy. To-morrow we
are sworn in, and the amiable virtues of Sir Fletcher[265] will most
assuredly procure him a Unanimity. I hope Bath still agrees with My
Lady. I wish I could send you a favourable account of poor Clarke,
but he is really very bad; his looks more shocking than ever, neither
strength, rest nor appetite. Dr. Addington, his Physician, _hopes_
his liver is not touched, but thinks him in one of the worst habits
of body he ever saw,--his complaint bilious and obstructions of the
bowels; dreads an inflammation. It is a melancholy subject.
Adieu. See Mrs. G.
[263] The new Parliament met November 29, 1774.
[264] Lord Clive died November 22, 1774.
[265] Sir Fletcher Norton was re-elected speaker, November 29,
1774.
228.
_To his Stepmother._
Boodle's, Nov. 29th, 1774.