"All is now over as to me, and by a fatality I did not expect," Pitt wrote to Lady Stanhope on July 20. "I mean Lord Temple's refusing to take his share with me in the undertaking. We set out to-morrow morning for my seat at Burton Pynsent in Somersetshire, where I propose, if I find the place tolerable, to pass not a little of the rest of my days."[316] In the meantime, however, and as a last resource, the Duke of Cumberland turned to the Rockingham Whigs, and, after much negotiation, on July 10, Lord Rockingham accepted office. [316] _Chatham Correspondence._ END OF VOL. I _Printed by Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd. Bath._ TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: The complete index to this volume will be found in "Farmer George, Volume 2", Project Gutenberg e-book number 39981. In the plain-text version of this book, footnotes have been moved to the end of the paragraph in which the footnote tag appears. Illustrations have been moved to the nearest appropriate paragraph break. The author's spelling and punctuation have been left as in the original printed volume, with the following exceptions: Obvious typographical errors and printer errors have been corrected without comment. From the list of errata on page 317 of Farmer George Vol. 2, one change has been made to this text: On page 223, the name "Quirk" has been changed to "Quick". To correspond with the author's usage, in footnote number [195] the name "Germains" was changed to "Germaine" in the phrase "Lord George Germaine". End of Project Gutenberg's Farmer George, Volume 1, by Lewis Melville