"September 5th," three weeks before that of Amoneburg, "the Duke of Bedford, Bute's Plenipotentiary, set out towards Paris,--considerably hissed on the street here by a sulky population," it would seem;--"but sure of success in Paris.

Bute shared in none of the national triumphs of this Year.

The transports of rejoicing which burst out on the news of Havana" were a sorrow and distress to him.

[Walpole's _George the Third,_ ii.

191.] "Havana, what shall we do with it ?" thought he; and for his own share answered stiffly, "Nothing with it; fling it back to them!"-- till some consort of his persuaded him Florida would look better.