151, 182, 218.] In these sad circumstances, Preparations so called have been making for Hanover, for America;--such preparations as were never seen before.

Take only one instance; let one be enough:-- "By the London Gazette, well on in February, 1756, we learn that Lord Loudon, a military gentleman of small faculty, but of good connections, has been nominated to command the Forces in America; and then, more obscurely, some days after, that another has been nominated:--one of them ought certainly to make haste out, if he could; the French, by account, have 25,000 men in those countries, with real officers to lead them! Haste out, however, is not what this Lord Loudon or his rival can make.

In March, we learn that Lord Loudon has been again nominated; in an improved manner, this time;--and still does not look like going.
'Again nominated, why again ?' Alas, reader, there have been hysterical fidgetings in a high quarter; internal shiftings and shufflings, contradictions, new proposals, one knows not what.

[_Gentleman's Magazine _ for 1756, pp.

92, 150, 359, 450.] One asks only: How is the business ever to be done, if you cannot even settle what imbecile is to go and try it?
"Seldom had Country more need of a Commander than America now.