“I desire you will not let yourself be concerned more than you ought at these unhappy times, nor imagine us here in greater danger than we really are, for if the enemy should be for coming this length, we should have notice enough of it, and as we are at present unprovided with force, must take to flight to save ourselves. I am in very good health and spirits, and run no hazards but what others as deserving and better than j do run, and hope your good sense and greatness of mind will preserve you from being more concerned than other people are, or you ought to be. I desire you will add to all the other testimonys of your love and affection to me, what j now ask, which at all events will make me easy. I will take all opportunities of writing to you, and am, with my compliments to dear Miss Salley, “My dearest Angel, “Your most affectionate Husband, “EDW. MONTAGU. “P.S.--I subscribed a £100.” [383] 7th Earl of Carlisle. [384] 6th Baron of Malton. [385] 3rd Viscount Lonsdale. [386] Should be Viscount Fauconberg. [387] 1st Earl Fitzwilliam. [388] Afterwards 6th Earl of Holdernesse. [389] James Edward Oglethorpe, born 1698, died 1785; 1733 founded Georgia, which he named after George II. [Page heading: GENERAL COPE’S DEFEAT] The next letter from Mr. Montagu is written from Allerthorpe, on September 29, after having received his wife’s earnest appeal to be allowed to join him. This sentence shows his affection for her-- “You have ever been my Pride, j have loved and honoured you with the tenderest affection, and will continue to do so as long as j live, but j now adore you for the greatness of mind, joyned with the utmost regard shewn to me in a letter which might have well become a Roman Lady. The happiest days that j ever past in my life, have been with you, and j hope Heaven, after these storms shall be blown over, will grant me the long enjoyment of your charming society, which I prefer above everything upon Earth.... “I cannot consent to the danger you might run by coming to me, however glad j might be to have you with me, but must desire you and conjure you without any further difficulty or hesitation to go to your Father’s in Kent, where you will be amongst those who best love you, and are most capable to defend you, till j can come to you there myself.... “The defeat of Cope is a very great misfortune. Everybody censures the conduct of the General, as well as the behaviour of the soldiers. We have since the battle heard no more but that the Rebels are encamped at Preston Pans, near where the battle was fought.” [Page heading: SUSSEX PRIVATEERS] On September 30, from London, George Lewis Scott writes to Mrs. Montagu, still at Tunbridge Wells--