LETTER ATTRIBUTED TO SIR ROBERT WALPOLE

In Banks's *Dormant Peerage*, vol. iii. p. 61., under the account of *Pulteney, Earl of Bath*, is the following extraordinary letter, said to be from Sir Robert Walpole to King George II., which is introduced as serving to show the discernment of Walpole, as well as the disposition of the persons by whom he was opposed, but evidently to expose the vanity and weakness of Mr. Pulteney, by exhibiting the scheme which was to entrap him into the acceptance of a peerage, and so destroy his popularity. It is dated Jan. 24. 1741, but from *no place*, and has but little appearance of authenticity. "Mos…