This was just as untrue as that he became a convert to the Catholic faith; or that he was the lover of Peg Woffington; or that he contested Adam Smith's chair of moral philosophy at Glasgow along with Hume, and that both Burke and Hume were rejected in favour of some fortunate Mr.James Clow.

They are all alike unfounded.

But the same letter informs Shackleton of a circumstance more real and more important than any of these, though its details are only doubtfully known.

Burke had married--when and where, we cannot tell.

Probably the marriage took place in the winter of 1756.