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Letter from Hugh Hume-Campbell (Lord Marchmont) to son Alexander Hume-Campbell, Lord Polwarth. Sent from Marchmont House to Geneva. The only peer left out of the 16 was Lord Breadalbane, in whose room Lord Viscount Irwin is elected. [Refers to Scottish representative peers - peers elected by the members of the Peerage of Scotland to sit in the British House of Lords].

23 May 1768

From: 1768 To: 1768

'Your account of the mob at Neuchâtel is founded on the same principles as the conduct of the people at London.' Makes comments about rioters and what should be done about them: 'To grant anything to mobs arising from concerted sedition is the weakest of all conduct. For the thing desired is all pretence - the real object is to shake and overturn government or set the mob leaders at the head if it.' 'I remind you of cultivating your German, which will slip from you unawares if you do not attend to it, very speedily.' 'I am gald you have begun your exercises; dancing must be attended to in so far as it gives and fixes a gentlemanly graceful appearance which is the first thing people make their observations upon.' 'You see that I set you the example of long letters. It is owing to my setting my mind entirely to what I am about at the time. There is no doing anything if ones occupation be employed one way and ones wishes or thoughts another.'

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Hume-Campbell, Hugh,
Marchmont,
Hume-Campbell, Alexander,
Hume-Campbell, Hugh (3rd Earl of Marchmont),
Ingram, Charles [9th Viscount of Irvine],
Campbell, John (3rd Earl of Breadalbane & Holland)

family correspondence, Geneva, German, general politics, rioting, dancing