LETTER ATTRIBUTED TO SIR ROBERT WALPOLE

I feel very confident that I once read the letter attributed to Sir R. Walpole (No. 19. p. 304.) in some magazine, long before I had ever seen *Banks' Extinct and Dormant Peerage*. My impression is, also, that I never believed the document to be authentic; and that opinion is confirmed by a reference to the *Correspondence of Horace Walpole*, vol. i. ed. 1840, and to the journals of the day. I find from these authorities, that the first of the memorable divisions which drove Sir Robert from the helm, took place on the 21st Jan. 1741-2, when Pulteney's motion for a secret committee was lost by…