BC_1766_EMONTAGU_EV_3

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<Q A 1766? TC EV EMONTAGU>
<X ELIZABETH MONTAGU>
 [}ELIZABETH MONTAGU TO ELIZABETH VESEY. 1766 FEB 22. LONDON. MO 6388}]
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Dear Mad=m=
   Beautifull are the feet of those who bring glad tydings from the Mountains, and beautifull therefore sh=d= appear my scrawl informing you the stamp act was repeald by a majority of one hund:=d= [\& eight/] & our friend M=r= Burke spoke divinely, yes divinely, dont misunderstand me, & report he spoke as well as mortal man could do, I tell you he spoke better. The great Commoner praised him highly in the Senate, & all people join in the chorus, the banks of ye Thames resound with his praise, it roars in the great streets & it is whisperd even in Courts & alleys. Indeed M=r= Burke has every day acquired great praise but yesterday crown'd all. M=r= Pitt did not
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speak so well as he has done. He described the [\BLOT\] [\WORD UNCLEAR\] American planter sitting in his native innocence in his native woods, & how cruel to disturb Him there with a stamp duty, but as this duty was not [\to be/] levied on men who under the shade of melancholly boughs
   lose & neglect the creeping hours of time, but affects y=e= litigious man who goes to law, or the mercantile man who sends commodities out to Sea, the pastoral part of the speech, though adornd with quotations from the Georgies, did not greatly move the House. In the House of Lords there will be more opposition to the Ministry, but still y=e= act will be repealed. I expect Lady Shelburne every moment so must be laconick. L=d= Lyttelton desires L=d= Orrerys wretched letters on y=e= English history may not be attributed to him neither as to ye matter or ye manner. I enclose a letter M=r= Walpole wrote to Rousseau in y=e= name of ye K of Prussia
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I have taken y=e= liberty to enclose 4 proposals for my friend M=r= Woodhouse. As you love virtue & verse I am sure you will be glad to dispose of them for him, & it be of great service to him to be introduced into Ireland under y=r= patronage. The birthday was most brilliant. I have not yet recoverd the fatigue of it. Enter the Bishop of Bristol & so (\Adieu\) !
   y=rs=
   EM
   M=rs= Carter is well