The Diary of the Late George Bubb Dodington, Baron of Melcombe Regis; From March 8, 1749 to February 6, 1761 with an Appendix Containing Some Curious  (English, Paperback, Henry Penruddocke Wyndham, Baron George Bubb Dodingtom Melcombe)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: It is presumed, that there is to be no trifling; but that the correspondence and communication between Mr Dodington's friends, and the Administration, is to be sincere, honourable, and unreserved. The Editor, at the request of a particular friend, hat added the following letter to the Appendix; it being a justification of the duke of Richmond from the charge implied in the account of hit grace's accepting and resigning a place in the king's bedchamber.? See page 218. And here the Editor begs leave to observe, that as other transactions contained in this Diary may possiblu have been either unfairlu stated or partiallu represented, he will be happy to insert all explanations that may come properlu authenticated to him in a future edition. Sir, Goodwood, June 31, 1783. I Am much obliged to Mr Wyndham for the communication he has allowed you to make to me of Mr Dodington's Diary, which has afforded me great entertainment; for few readings, in my opinion, are more amusing than this sort of original memoirs, which give the truest picture of the times in which they were written. As the excellence of such a work consists in its being perfectly original, the smallest alteration would, in my opinion, destroy its merit; and therefore, although the part where I am mentioned, contains by no means a true state of that business, yet I am far from wishing to have it suppressed or altered. All I desire is, that when Mr Wyndham thinks proper to publish Mr Dodington's Diary, he will permit this letter, containing the true state of facts, to be inserted as an explanatory note to that transaction. Soon after his majesty's accession, sir Harry Er- skine, who had been removed from the army by the late king, was restored to it by his present majesty, with the same rank he would have had ...