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Walpole had obtained a short extension of his leave, and employed the time in endeavouring to make up his mind about a certain letter to Nina Kostalergi, which he had written nearly fifty times in different versions and destroyed. Neither his lordship nor his niece ever saw him.
A note at the bottom of the page of the Parliamentary Debates for that day says: "The Chippenham election being thus carried in favor of the sitting members, it was reported that Sir Robert Walpole publicly declared he would never enter the House of Commons more." This was on February 2, 1742.
Here it was totally different. These men did not live together with that daily interchange of liberties which, with all their passing contentions, so accustom people to each other's humours as to establish the soundest and strongest of all friendships. Walpole had adopted Atlee because he found him useful in a variety of ways.
The political activities of "Counsellor Fielding" stand out far more clearly than do the legal labours of these years of struggle at the Bar. The year of his call, 1740, was one of constant embarrassment for Sir Robert Walpole, whose long enjoyment of single power was now at last drawing to a miserable close.
'His Excellency will ask you, probably, some questions about this country: let me warn you not to give him Irish answers. 'I don't think I understand you, sir. 'I mean, don't deal in any exaggerations, avoid extravagance, and never be slapdash. 'Oh, these are Irish, then? Without deigning reply to this, Walpole went on 'Of course you have your remedy for all the evils of Ireland.
Walpole was honestly proud of his peace policy; more than once he declared with exultation that while there were fifty thousand men killed in Europe during the struggle just ended, the field of dead did not contain the body of a single Englishman. Seldom in the history of England has English statesmanship had such a tale to tell.
As, for instance, a bit of carpet in this room would be worth more than all the courtesy that showed us in. 'What was that lake called the first place I mean? asked Lockwood. 'Lough Brin. I shouldn't say but with better weather it might be pretty. A half-grunt of dissent was all the reply, and Walpole went on It's no use painting a landscape when it is to be smudged all over with Indian ink.
WALPOLE then spoke, to the following purpose: Sir, it is not without reason that the honourable gentleman desires to be informed of the stipulations contained in the treaty by which we have engaged to support the Pragmatick sanction; for I find that he either never knew them or has forgotten them; and, therefore, those reasonings which he has formed upon them fall to the ground.
When Walpole gave us peace, the attention of the manufacturers was directed to fowling-pieces, and from that time forward Birmingham has contained the greatest fire-arm factory in the world, although, of course, subject to many fluctuations.
His bearers set him down within the bar, and by the help of a crutch he made his way with difficulty to his seat. "There was a mixture of the very solemn and the theatric in this apparition," says Walpole, who was present.
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