"October 5th" (ACCEPTANCE of the resignation, I suppose ?) is the date commonly given.] "The Nation was thunderstruck, alarmed and indignant," says Walpole: [_ Memoirs of the Reign of George the Third,_ i.

82 et seq.] yes, no wonder;--but, except a great deal of noisy jargoning in Parliament and out of it, the Nation gained nothing for itself by its indignant, thunderstricken and other feelings.

Its Pitt is irrecoverable; and it may long look for another such.

These beautiful recalcitrants of the Cabinet-Council had, themselves, within three months (think under what noises and hootings from a non-admiring Nation), to declare War on Spain, ["2d January, 1762," the English; "18th January," the Spaniard (ANNUAL REGISTER for 1762, p.

50; or better, Beatson, ii.