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<Q A 1769? TC GL EMONTAGU>
<X ELIZABETH MONTAGU>
 [}ELIZABETH MONTAGU TO LORD LYTTELTON. 1769? BL ADD. MS 42087 F. 35}]
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My Lord
   I return M=r= Grenvilles speech after having read it with great delight. I desire y=r= Lordship to return my thanks to him but I shall not attempt to praise it, for every period in it convinced me my praise is far below his acceptance. I long to see the time when the wisdom that dictated what I read shall be imploy'd in active measures to save this poor Country. I hope I shall find all my Friends safe & well at my return to Town, but indeed a wicked Mob & a foolish Ministry may produce strange events. It was better in old times, when the Ministry was wicked & the Mob foolish. Ministries, however wicked, do not [\fix DELETED\] [\pull down/] houses, nor ignorant Mob pull down Governments. A Mob that can read & a Ministry that cannot think are sadly
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match'd. Pray make my comp=ts= to the Ladies you have invited for this evening: it was pure malice in y=r= Lordship to make such a partie when I c=d= not be one of it. The Chaise is ready to carry me to my Nightingales, so I will only add that I beg y=r= Lordship to send for M=r= Hawkins if y=r= leg does not grow better.
   I am
   y=r= Lordships most Obliged &c
   EM
[\ADDRESS\] To / The R=t= H=ble= / Lord Lyttelton