“I beg the favour of you to return me the letters, as I mean to leave Winchester this evening. I have Lord Bruce’s leave of absence for ten days. “I am, &c. “JOHN WILKES. “I hope we may make a _partie quarrée_ for supper on Tuesday, at Bagshot.” To this lively letter the following reply was sent:— “Camp, near Winchester, Sept. 30, 1762. “SIR, “I have sent all the letters, and shall depend upon the pleasure of supping with you at Telbury’s, the Red Lion, at Bagshot, Tuesday evening. My servant will attend me, as the going alone would give room for suspicion; but you may depend upon his following your directions at Bagshot, and that he shall not be seen where you would not have him. I am much obliged by your favourable opinion, and am, &c. “H. BERKELEY.” “To Colonel Wilkes.” In a letter to Earl Temple, Wilkes gives the following account of this singular meeting:— “Red Lion, at Bagshot, ”Tuesday, 10 at night, Oct. 5, 1762. “MY LORD, “I had the honour of transmitting to your Lordship copies of seven letters which passed between Lord Talbot and me. As the affair is now over, I inclose an original letter of Colonel Berkeley’s, with a copy of mine previous to it, which fixed the particulars of our meeting, and therefore remained a secret, very sacredly kept by the four persons concerned.