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LIBRARY

LETTERS

TO AND FROM

HENRIET'JA, COUNTESS OF SUFFOLK
AND HER SECOND HUSBAND,
THE HON. GEORGE BERKELEY;
FROM 1712 TO 1767.*

HISTORICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL, ^EXPLANATORY
NOTES.

IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.

LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.
1824.

SUFFOLK CORRESPONDENCE.

LADY SUFFOLK TO MR. GAY.

[On the 22nd June died without issue, Edward, eighth Earl
of Suffolk, when hisbrotherCharles(Mrs.Howard's husband)
succeeded to the title, and became ninth Earl of Suffolk.]

Hampton Court, June 29, 1731.
To prevent all future quarrels and disputes,
I shall let you know that I have kissed hands
for the place of * mistress of the robes. Her

' When Mrs. Howard became Countess of Suffolk, she could
no longer be woman of the bedchamber ; but Queen Caroline,
who feared (it is said,) a younger and less discreet rival, did
not wish her to leave the court (though the king would per
haps have been pleased at her departure), and so hit upon this
expedient to retain her. So ready, yet so inaccurate is malig
nity, that it was stated in the public prints of the day, that
this office was created for Lady Suffolk, when in fact the
Duchess of Dorset had held it under Queen Caroline ever
since the separate establishment of her household. This office,
conferred on Lady Suffolk the day after she became a peeress,
and at a time when the correspondence and other circumstances
show that her favour with the king was quite gone, proves the
power and policy of the queen.
VOL. II. B

2 —1731—
majesty did me the honour to give me the choice
of lady of the bedchamber, or that, which I find
so much more agreeable to me, that I did not
take one moment to consider of it. The Duchess
of "Dorset resigned it for me ; and every thing
as yet promises more happiness for the latter
part of my life than I have yet had a prospect
of. Seven nights' quiet sleep, and seven easy
days have almost worked a miracle upon me ; for
if I cannot say I am perfectly well, yet it is cer
tain, even my pain is more supportable than it
was. I shall now often visit Marble Hill : my
time is become very much my own, and I shall
see it without the dread of being obliged to sell
it to answer the engagements I had put myself
under to avoid a ^ greater evil. Mr. *H. took
possession of body and goods, and was not pre
vailed upon till yesterday to resign the former
for burial. Poor Lord " Suffolk took so much
care in the will he made, that the best lawyers
say it must stand good. I am persuaded it will
be tried to the utmost.

» But her salary, as lady of the bedchamber, was raised to
equal that of the office she resigned.
» She alludes to her refusal to enter into certain pecuniary
engagements with Mr. Howard.
* Mr. Howard, her husband, whose fraternal affection does
not seem to have been more strong than his conjugal regard.
5 The late lord : he died unmarried, in the sixtieth year of
his age.

— 17S1— 3
1 have at this time a great deal of business
upon my hands, but not from my court em
ployment. You must take this as a particular
favour. The Duchess {of Queensberry) shall
hear from me soon : she has a most extraordi
nary way of making her peace ; but she does
tell truth, and I told a lie when I said I hated
her ; for nothing is more true than that I love
her most siticerely. However, I put it into
your hands to tell her what you think proper j
and if she can but feel half for me that I should
for her under the same circumstances, it will
be punishment sufficient for what I have suf
fered from her neglect of me. I shall certainly
see Highdlere this summer, and shall expect
sortie people^ to meet me there. I hope the
chairs will be ddhe, for I do not know whether
I ought to expect to be preferred before them.
If you find her inclined to think me wrong in
any particular, desire her to suspend her judg-
riient till theh ; and if not to please me, to sa
tisfy her own curiosity, she may come. I have
taken care of what you desired me. I have
done my best : I hope, for my sake, it will suc
ceed well; for I shall be more concerned, I
dare say, if it should not than you would be.
^ She means the family of Amesbury, including Gay.
B 2

—1731—
DR. ARBUTHNOT TO LADY SUFFOLK.

QVol.i. p. 291.] London, July 6, 1731.
MADAM, I HAVE the honour to congratulate
your ladyship on your late honour and prefer
ment, and the obliging manner that I hear the
last was conferred — I believe I may likewise add
on a sufficient stock of equanimity to bear both.
I came to town to meet my ^brother, who is
just arrived from China. He has a little present
for your ladyship, which, as he tells me, consists
of some tea, a beautiful Indian pheasant, and
some fine lackered thing.
I have been at Tunbridge for some time, and
return again. Your ladyship was a great subj ect
of discourse for some days, which gave your
friends very little subject of anxiety, and me a
good deal of pleasure, to find you had so many

1 George; see p. 176, vol. i. where, by an error of the
press, he is called the doctor's eldest, instead of his youngest
brother. He had just returned from China, as supercargo of
four of the Company's ships, and had detected some unfaii-
practices by other servants of the Company, which made some
noise at the time.

—1731— 5
who had a just notion of your ladyship's charac
ter. There are at present very few folks at
Tunbridge merely for their diversion. The
company consists chiefly of bon-vivants with
decayed stomachs, green-sickness virgins, un
fruitful or miscarrying wives. The way your
humble servant was used was comical enough.
The medicines I prescribed, when they had
done good, were prescribed by the patient to
others, and so on, till at last the apothecary
made gallons of bitters which they took by
drams at the shop, and half-pecks of pills which
they carried home in boxes. They filled my
belly with good dinners at noon, and emptied
my pockets at night at quadrille. This is all I
shall trouble your ladyship with at present, being
with the utmost respect, &c.
J. Arbuthnot.

MR. GAY TO LADY SUFFOLK.

Julys, 1731.
Your letter was not ill bestowed, for I found
in it such an air of satisfaction that I have a
pleasure every time I think of it. I fancy
(though by her silence she seems to approve of
your ladyship's conduct) the duchess will meet

6 _17S1—
you at Highclere; for those that have a real
friendship cannot be satisfied with general rela
tions ; they want to inquire into the minute cir
cumstances of life, that they may be sure things
are as happy as they appear to be, and that is a
curiosity that is excusable.
I do not like lawsuits ; I wish you could
have your right without them : for I fancy
there never was one since the world bega,n,
that, besides the cost, was not attended with
anxiety and vexation. But as you descended
from lawyers, what might be my plague per
haps may be only your amusement. Nobody
but yourself hath let us know any thing about
you : judge then how welcome your ladyship's
letter was to me. I find this change of life
of yours is a subject that I cannot so well write
upon; it is a thing that one cannot so well
judge of in general. But as for your lady
ship's conduct in this juncture, my approba
tion goes for nothing ; for all the world knows
that I am partial-. When you have a mind to
make me happy, write to me ; for of late I have
had but very little chance, and only chance, of
seeing you. If ever you thought well of me ; if

¦ Lady Suffolk was great-great-grand-daughter of Sir Henry
Hobart, chief-justice of the Common Pleas (the author of the
Reports,) and the grand-daughter, as I believe, of old Serjeant
Maynard.

— 1731— 7
ever you believed I wished you well, and wished
to be of service to you, think the same of me ;
for I am the same, and shall always be so k
Mr. Pope, I fear, is determined never to
write to me. I hope he is well. If you see
Mrs. Blount or Mr. Pope, I beg them to accept
my compliments.

LADY HERVEY TO LADY SUFFOLK.

[Vol. i.p. 181.]

Ickworth, July 10, 1731.
I AM extremely obliged to dear Lady Suf
folk for furnishing me with so good a reason
for following my own inclination as that of fol
lowing yours, or at least obeying your com
mands, which I am sure your good nature obliged
you to lay upon me^ knowing how much less
agreeably I must have passed my time any other
way till I have the pleasure of seeing you
again. Your demand on me is a very kind, but
a very unnecessary one ; and I hope you made
it thinking it the first,, and knowing it to be the
last. Depend on it, dear Swiss countess, the
esteem I have for you is equal (for superior it

2 What can be ;a cleai-er proof of Mrs. Howard's sincerity
than this assurance of Gay.

8 —1731—
cannot be) to the claim of your desert, and no
less lasting than I am sure that will be.
The book I mentioned to you in my last is
the Cabala, or Letters qf State. There are some
very curious things in it, and some very good
letters, allowing for the difference of style andlan-
guage in Queen Elizabeth's, King James's, and
Charles the First's time : there are mighty pretty
letters from the famous Earl of Essex ; very artful,
clever ones from Sir Francis Bacon, who, though
a sad fellow in his practice, was a very great man
in theory; there are some very good ones from
Lord Bristol and Lord Holland, relating to the
treaties of marriage carried on by them for the
Infanta of Spain and Henrietta of France. If
you have never read it, it is worth your dipping
into. I have now begun a book called Journal
du Roy Henri III. de France ^ There are some
diverting things in it ; it is in very old French.
Pray give me leave to question your ladyship
in my turn, and to inquire into your studies of
all kinds ; for I shall not, like you, bound my
curiosity to the dead: there are living books
which I am sure you sometimes peruse, and
which I should be very glad to have an account
of: and in so large a library as there is at
Hampton Court, though the generality of books
are dull and insipid, it is impossible but you

ByP.ierjedel'Estoille: a very curious and entertaining work,

—1731— 9
must find something worth transcribing. There
are ^ six volumes which stand together that were
published a good while ago, several of them
bound in calf: if you will look into them, I
cannot but think you will meet with things that
may entertain, though not instruct. The first
volume contains serious thoughts on the state
of virginity, interspersed with occasional satires
on several subjects. The second volume I have
scarcely dipped into ; but it seems to be a plain
discourse on morality, and the unfitness of those
things commonly called pleasures. The next,
or at least that which I think follows, is a rhap
sody ; it is very verbose, and nothing in it :
there is a very good print before it of the au
thor's face. The fourth volume is neatly bound;
the title of it, * The Lady's Guide, or the Whole
Art of Dress ;' a book well worth perusing. The
next is a miscellaneous work, in a pocket edi
tion, printed on bad paper, in which are some

2 An allegory of the six maids of honour ; but it is perhaps
not now possible to appropriate the several characters ; firstly,
because it is (strange to say) not certain who the maids
of honour were at this period ; and secondly, because it is very
doubtful whether Lady Hervey mentions them in their proper
order. The first and last were probably Miss Meadows and
Miss Vane, whose characters are hardly to be mistaken. The
fourth is likely to be Miss Fitzwilliam, afterwards Lady Pem
broke ; and the three others were probably Miss Carteret, Miss
Mordaunt, and Miss Dives.

10 _1731—
essays on love and gallantry ; a discourse on
lying; tea-table chit-chat ; an attempt on poli
tical subjects ; the whole very prolix and un-
entertaining. The sixth volume is a folio; being
a collection of the subjects, cause, and occasion
of all the late court ballads; also a key to them,
and to the jokes and witticisms of the most
fashionable conversations now in town. This
book is very diverting, and may be read by
those of the meanest, as well as by those of the
best understanding, being writ in the vulgar
tongue. If, whilst I am in the country, there should
come out any addition to these works, I beg
you wiU be so good to give me an account of
it, and when I go to town, I will beg the favour
of you to lend me a * book I have seen in your
room: it is not an essay, but a complete treatise
on subjects moral, instructive, and entertain
ing, perfectly well digested and connected;. the'
style is admirable, the reasoning clear andstrong;
the duke et utile reigns in every part of it : in
short, it is the most perfect work of the most
perfect author, and will amuse me agreeablj^,,
and employ me usefully, as often as you will'
bestow it on,
My dear Lady Suffolk's most faithful
 M. H.
3 She means here an allegorical character of Lady Suffolk
herself

—1731— U
Lady Bristol bids me make her compliments
to you. I conclude I need not beg of you to
burn this letter as soon as you have read it.

DEAN SWIFT TO LADY SUFFOLK.
Dublin, July 27, 1731.
MADAM, I GIVE you joy of your new title, and
of the consequences it may have, or hath on
your rising at court, whereof I know nothing
but by common fame ; for you remember how
I prophesied of your behaviour when you should
come to be a great lady, at the time I drew your
Character, and hope you have kept it. I wrote
to you some time ago by the advice of Mr. Pope ;
I wrote to you civilly ; but you did not ' answer
my letter, although you were not then a coun
tess; and if you were, your neglect was so much
the worse, for your title hath not increased your
Value with me ; and your conduct must be very
good if it will not lessen you. Neither should
you have heard from me now if it were not on
a particular occasion.
' She could hardly have answered it; for it was founded on
a supposed alteration of her circumstances at court, which she
could not decently have either admitted or denied.

12 _1731—
I find from several instances that I am under
the queen's displeasure; and, as it is usual
among princes, without any manner of reason^.
I am told there were three letters sent to her
majesty in relation to one Mrs. Barber, who is
now in London, and soliciting to a subscription
to her poems. It seems the queen thinks that
those letters were written by me ; and I scorn
to defend myself even to her majesty, ground
ing my scorn upon the opinion I had of her
justice, her taste, and good sense, especially
when the last of those letters, whereof I have
just received the original from Mr. Pope, was
signed with my name ^ ; and why I should dis
guise my hand, which you know very well, and
yet write my name, is both ridiculous and un
accountable. Last post I wrote my whole sen
timents on the matter to Mr. Pope, who tells
me that you and he vindicated me on all the
three letters, which indeed was but bare justice
in you both ; for he is my old friend, and you

=* This is hardly just : the dean indulged himself in a mode
of speaking of the queen, which would have been rude even to
a private lady.
3 The mystery which Swift's editors have found in this
affair of Mrs. Barber's letters is easily solved, by supposing that
Mrs. Barber forged them for her own purposes; which as
they were violently recommendatory of her and her objects
she, who was by no means a scrupulous person, probably did.

—1731— 13
are in my debt on account of the esteem I
had for you. I desire you would ask the queen
whether, since the time I had the honour to be
known to her, I ever did one single action or
said one single word to disoblige her. I never
asked her for any thing : and you well know,
that when I had an intention to go to France
about the time that the late king died, I desired
your opinion (not as you were a courtier) whe
ther I should go or no, and you absolutely forbid
me, as a thing that would look disaffected, and
for other reasons, wherein I confess I was your
dupe, as well as somebody's else ; and for * want
of that journey I fell sick, and was forced to
return hither to my unenvied home. I hear
the queen hath blamed me for putting a •'' stone
with a Latin inscription over the Duke of

4 This is not quite candid; we know that his illness was
of a nature not to be cured by a trip to France, and that his
real affliction at that time was the fatal illness of poor Stella.
' It is hard to conceive why the king and queen should have
resented the erection of this monument. The Duke of Schom-
berg was one of the heroes of the Revolution, and an honour
to his memory looked rather like a compliment to the reigning
family. The epitaph, no doubt, expresses some indignation
that the duke's friends had left this care to strangers; but the
indignation was just ; for it should be recollected that Swift
had previously exhausted every means of persuasion to induce
Lady Holderness, second daughter of the duke, and others of
his relations, to contribute to the monument.

14 _1731 —
Schomberg's burying-place in my cathedral, and
that the king said pubhcly I had done it in ma
lice, to create a quarrel between him and the
King of Prussia. The public prints, as well as
the thing itself, will vindicate me ; and the hand
the duke had in the Revolution made him de
serve the best monument : neither could the
King of Prussia justly take it ill, who must have
heard that the duke was in the service of Prussia,
and stadt-holder of it, as I have seen in his titles.
The first time I saw the queen I talked to her
largely upon the conduct of princes and great
ministers (it was on a particular occasion ®), that
when they receive an ill account of any person,
although they afterwards have the greatest de
monstration of the falshood; yet they will never
be reconciled ; and although the queen fell in
with me upon the hardship of such a proceed
ing, yet now she treats me directly in the same
manner. I have faults enough, but never was
guilty of any either to her majesty or to you ;
and as little to the king, whom I never saw, but
when I had the honour to kiss his hand. I am
sensible that I owe a great deal of this usage to
Sir Robert Walpole, whom yet I never offended,
although he was pleased to quarrel with me very
unjustly, for which I showed not the least re-

Walpole's quarrel with Gay.

—1731— 15
sentment (whatever T might have in my breast),
nor was ever a partaker with those who have
been '' battling him for some years past. I
am contented that the queen should see this
letter, and would please to consider how severe
a censure it is to believe I should write thrice
to her, only to find fault with her ministry, and
recommend Mrs. Barber, whom I never knew
till she was recommended to me by a worthy
friend, to help her to subscribe, which by her
writings I thought she deserved. Her majesty
gave me leave, and even commanded me, above
five years ago, if I lived till she was queen, to
write to her on behalf of Ireland, for the mi
series of which kingdom she appeared then to
be much concerned. I desired the friend '^ who
introduced me to be witness of her majesty's
promise : yet that liberty of writing to her I
never took, although I had too many occasions ;
and is it not wonderful that I should be sus
pected of writing to her in such a style, in a
counterfeit hand, and my name subscribed, upon
a perfect trifle, at the same time that I well knew
myself to be very much out of her majesty's good
graces ? I am perhaps not so very much awed

' There is reason to suppose that Swift had been solicited
both by Bolingbroke and Pulteney to assist them in the Crafts
man, which it appears he declined to do.
8 Dr. Arbuthnot.

16 —1731 —
with majesty as others, hlfving known courts
more or less from my eai4y ^ youth ; and I have
more than once told the queen, that I did not
regard her station half so much as the good un
derstanding I heard and found to be in her. I
am a good Whig by thinking it sufficient to be
a good subject, with little personal esteem for
princes, further than as their virtues deserve,
and upon that score had a most particular re
spect for the queen, your mistress. One who
asks nothing may talk with freedom ; and that
is my case. I have not said half that was
in my heart, but I will have done ; and, remem
bering you are a countess, will borrow so much
ceremony as to remain, with great respect.
Your ladyship's, &c.
JoNATH. Swift.

MISS CHAMBER TO LADY SUFFOLK.

I^Vol. i. p. 316. This is an answer to a letter which does not
appear.]

London, Monday, Aug. 31, 1731.
Having received the honour of the
Duke's' commands, I ought in duty to let his
9 When young, he was admitted to the familiar company of
King William, at Sir W. Temple's, at Sheen.
' Of Cumberland.

—1731— 17
royal highness know that I delivered his message
to the ^ Duchess of Newcastle, who is perfectly
well satisfied with knowing that his royal high
ness has graciously received the wooden ware,
and I desire your ladyship to inform the duke
of this part of my letter.
I am very much obliged to chance for show
ing my last letter to one that makes such good
remarks upon it. I will not explain further
upon Lady Betty's (Germaine) amusements, un
less you name the author of those observations;
but so much I will venture to say for his satisfac
tion and yours, that I have heard it is a common
way of guessing at people's sense by remarking
the company they keep ; so, in my opinion, it
may be one way of knowing Lady Betty's
thoughts, by rightly considering and duly ob
serving what the kind of things are she chooses
to lay out her money in, and by that observa
tion we may come to know whether she likes to
employ one sense in particular, or all in general;
for what she thinks of probably she wishes for,
and all the world knows that Lady Betty Ger
maine need but wish and have ^.
Lady Betty has sent you for a Tunbridge
The daughter of Lord Oodolphin, wife of the Duke of
Newcastle, so wdl known as first minister in the latter end of
George the Second's reign.
3 She was very opulent.
VOL. II. C

18 —1731-
fairing two cups and two saucers, and thus she
bade me say,—" You love old china ; sure I may
" venture to say this is really so ; I being in-
« formed that these are the pictures of our first
« parents drawn from the life, and at that time
« of the year that the fig-tree ceases to produce
" leaves." I am not to answer or to make re
marks upon what Lady Betty pleases to say ; so
you may easily imagine that what I have writ
is like what a parrot says, without understanding
the meaning*.
I am innocent of sending Miss Fitzwilliam a
present : if you have not yet found out the
person, I think I can guess it lies between the
Duke of Richmond and Lord Albemarle. I had
rather you would not be so dark in your ex
pressions about the dish you mention ; for, says
Mrs. Floyd *, with a pretty low voice, sure plain

'' Celle qui s'excuse s'accuse.
* Of this once celebrated liady little is remembered but
Swift's early verses on her : —
BIDDY FLOYD;
OR, A BECEIPT TO FORM A BEAUTY, 1708,
" When Cupid did his grandsire Jove entreat
To form some beauty by a new receipt,
Jove sent, and found, far in a country scene.
Truth, innocence, good-nature, look serene :

-1731— 19
speaking is best, and every body knows I like
to provide what I think will please the family ;
therefore desire that the true name may be no
longer disguised.
We go on Thursday next to Gosfield Hall, in
Essex, a house of Mrs. ® Knight's ; but, as you
know every thing, to be sure you know that we
stay there one week. Before I go, when I am

From which ingfedients first the dexterous boy
Pick'd the demure, the awkward, and the coy ;
The Graces from the court did next provide
Breeding, and wit, and air, and decent pride —
These Venus clears from every spurious grain
Of vice, coquette, affected, pert, and vain ;
Jove mix'd up all, and the best clay employ'd.
And call'd the happy composition Floyd."
Miss Floyd was in some way connected with the Berkeley
family, and appears to have constantly resided with Lady
Betty Germaine. In 1712 her beauty was impaired by the
small-pox. The last we read of her is in 1736, whfen Lady
Betty acquaints Swift " that Biddy Floyd has passed thus far
of the winter in better health than usual, though her cough
will not forsake her." ^
^ Mrs. Knight was Anne, the daughter of Mr. Craggs,
senior, and sister of Secretary Craggs. She was thrice mar
ried; first, to Mr. Newsham; second to Mr. Knight, of
Gosfield; and third, to Robert Nugent, created successively
Lord Nugent, Viscount Clare, and Earl Nugent. By her he
had an only daughter, the late Marchioness of Buckingham,
in favour of whose younger son the barony of Nugent was
revived. C 2

20 —1731—
there, and after I come back, in all places, and
at all times, I am, and ever shall be,
Yours,
M. Chamber.
Lady Betty thinks it will be proper, if you
give Lord Hervey tea in these dishes, to make
some excuse for their not wearing a guard.
The ivory gentleman is a present from Mrs.
' Campbell to you, and likewise the rings from
her to the ladies, as directed. The equipage
(which I am informed there is no travelling
without, and I propose should be of use for ex
peditions to Marble Hill) did belong to me,
but now hopes to have the honour of calling
you my lady.

LADY SUFFOLK TO MR. GAY.

[In the summer of 1731, Lady Suffolk seems to have met the
Duchess of Queensberry (but not Gay) at Highclere, and
there to have promised to engage Mr. Bridgeman (see vol. i.
p. 382) to visit her grace's gardens at Amesbury.]
Kensington, Sept. 5th, Q1731.]
I WAS never more peevish in my life than I
have been about this journey of Bridgeman's;
' See p. 57.

—1731— 21
I am sure I took true pains that it should have
been just as the duchess wished. I find, upon
strict inquiry, that he did not go so soon as I
expected. He told me of the first letter which
he wrote to you.
I wish he had told me of Mr. Bloodworth's *¦
conversation; for that would have prevented
all mistakes. It is not in my power to do
any thing more ; for Bridgeman has been ab
sent a week from hence; but if his servants
tell truth, there is no occasion, for they say he
is gone to the Duke of Queensberry's. I shall
be very uneasy till I hear how this matter has
ended. A letter from you was not necessary
to make me remember you, but a letter was
absolutely necessary to make me think you de
served one. The duchess did not tell me the
reason why I did not see you at Highclere, but
I do believe it was a good one ; because she
knows bringing of you there would have pleased
us both. As I never knew what liberty was, I
cannot tell you how much I was delighted with
this summer's expeditions. I never see Mr.
Pope nor Mrs. Blount, though I never go to

' Thomas Bloodworth, Esq. equerry, and in 1731 groom
of the bedchamber, to Prince Frederick : in 1 736 he was made
master of the horse to the Princess of Wales ; and we find him
in Dodington's Diary as still part of the family of the princess
dowager.

3^2 _1731-
Marble Hill without sending to them : she has
been ill, but was well the last time I sent ; but
you know she has a peculiar pleasure in refusing
her friends.
Let me hear often from you. I am glad you
think of coming to Twickenham. I hope we
shall meet at Marble Hill; but do not fail of
letting me know as soon as possible whether
the duchess is convinced I was nowise in fault,
and that she does me justice in believing I
never can willingly be so to her. If you do
not leave off ladyship ^ I shall complain to the
duchess, who shall make you go supperless to
bed. Exercise agrees so well with me, that I
cannot advise you not to use it ; but if her grace
feeds you moderately, I should think your exer
cise ought to be so. God bless you.

2 See Gay's letter of the 8th of July, in which ladyship is
certainly rather profusely used.

—1731— 23
LA COMTESSE DE LA LIPPE TO LADY SUFFOLK.

[There are several letters of the Countess de la Lippe in this
collection ; one or two are given as specimens of extraor
dinary good English written by a foreigner, and of a style
of correspondence which it is to be hoped is quite out of
fashion (see vol. i. p. 298). ]

Stadthaguen, Oct. 16, 1731.
There is something so obliging in your lady
ship's reproach, that I take it rather for a great
compliment that you think my letters of any
value ; when your ladyship has so many cor
respondents, and your time is so taken up, that
I should have made an apology for troubling
you with my nonsense, if I had dared to inter
rupt your better employments. This made me
neglect the kind permission you gave me, to
put you sometimes in mind of a very sincere
and humble servant. But since you are pleased
to remember it, and to desire I might give you
an account from time to time of our way of
living in this country, I will readily comply as
much as my eyes will give me leave to do.
I have been most part of the summer at my
own house here, where I live very comfortably
and at my ease." My * son and his princess are
' Albert Wolfgang, Count de Lippe. His lady is, I pre
sume, called a princess because the count was sovereign of his
own little territory.

24. _1731 —
gone to Cassel, to make their court to the King
of Sweden. I expect them home in a few
days. They have been travelling in Holland,
and at the Spa waters, where he had the good
luck to meet with some English ladies. I
wish, madam, that you could come so far; I
think I should venture to meet your ladyship
there, for I long prodigiously to hear of all our
friends, but particularly of my royal mistress's
good health. Her majesty did me the honour
to give me an account of her diet. I am glad
to hear she takes a little more care of her
health ; I wish our most gracious king would
do the same. God bless and preserve their
majesties for a great number of years. I be
seech you, madam, to make my court to both,
and to present my most humble duties to his
majesty, if you dare name me. They begin
already talking of the king's journey to Hanover
on the next spring. People are very apt to be
lieve what they wish for.
I give you a thousand thanks that you were
pleased to receive those commissions I took
the liberty to give you, with so much goodness.
I am sorry the necklace cannot be sold at a
better price ; but I have no other commission
than to beg it may be sent over again by the
same, or any other occasion, where it may be
delivered safe to me, for it is not to be sold
under 600^. As for the medals, 100/, at least
would satisfy the lady that desires to sell them •

—1731— 25
she expected a thousand crowns of German
money, but if your ladyship cannot get so
much, I beg you would keep that a little longer,
till I hear the last resolution of the lady. The
pearl necklace is what requires most care, there
fore I should be glad to have it safe over again,
if it cannot be sold.
The youngest Countess of ^ Platen is married
lately to Count Molzau, a Silesian family ; she
is a great fortune to him. 'Madame Kilmanseck
is brought to bed of a daughter. But all these
news are of very little moment to you, and so I
am afraid will be every one I can give you from
this place, where I live without any variety of
pleasure ; but (thank God) who is so free from
care as such a country life ? That your ladyship
may enjoy every thing you can desire, for your
happiness and pleasure, with perfect health and
ease, are, and will always be the wishes of.
Madam, yours, &c.
Sophia de Schaumbourg Lippe.

1 These were both, it is presumed, relatives of George the
First's favourite, the Baroness Kelmauseck (nee Countess of
Platen), whom he created Countess of Darlington, and by
whom he was, says Walpole, indisputably the father of Char
lotte, the wife of the second Viscount Howe, and mother of
Admiral Lord Howe, Sir William (afterwards Viscount)
Howe, and Mrs. Howe, so lately remembered in the fashionable
society of London.

2(> —1731—
I was deadly afraid for our prince when I saw
his royal highness's ^ illness in the newspapers.
God be thanked for his recovery, and that our
king's indisposition has had no ill consequence.
I find that Prince ^ William bids fair to be a dar
ling to your nation ; I love him dearly too, but
would not postpone our good Prince of Wales.

DEAN SWIFT TO LADY SUFFOLK,

[The loss of Lady Suffolk's letter, to which this is an answer,
is much to be regretted ; it would probably clear up most of
the obscurities in the affair of Dean Swift's complaints
against her.] Oct. 26, 1731.
MADAM, Your ladyship's letter made me a
little grave ; and in going to answer it, I was in
great danger of leaning on my elbow (I mean

" The Prince of Wales had a severe fever at this period, for
which his head was shaven ; an event which is commemorated
in the periodical works of the day.
s The Duke of Cumberland was deservedly a public favourite
during his whole life, with, perhaps, the exception of two short
periods, when the clamours of the Jacobites after the rebel
lion, and the ill success of his German campaigns, diminished
his popularity.

—1731— 27
my left elbow), to consider what I should write,
which posture I never used except when I was
under a necessity of writing to fools, or lawyers,
or ministers of state, where I am to consider
what is to be said. But as I write to a person
whom I esteem, I am in no pain at all.
It would be an injury to you or Mr. Pope to
.give thanks to either of you for justifying me
labout those letters sent to the queen, because
to think me guilty would disgrace your under
standings ; and as he is iny best friend, so your
ladyship owes me no malice, except that of
raillery, and good raillery is always sincere.
And if her majesty were deceived, it would
lessen my opinion of her judgment, which would
no otherwise affect me than by making me sorry
upon her own account. But what your lady
ship would have me discover through all your
refined civilities, is my great imprudence in or
dering that monument to be fixed in my cathe
dral. I shall not trouble you with a long story.
But if ever a numerous, venerable body of dig
nified clergymen had reason to complain of the
highest repeated indignity, in return of the
greatest honour offered by them to persons they
were wholly strangers to, then my chapter is
not to be blamed, nor I who proposed the mat
ter to them ; which, however, I could have done
by my own authority, but rather chose it should
be the work of us all : and I will confess it was

28 —1731—
upon their advice that I omitted the only two '
passages which had much bitterness in them,
and which a bishop here, one after your own
heart, blamed me very much for leaving out,
declaring that the treatment given us by the
Schomberg family deserved a great deal worse.
Indeed, madam, I shall not attempt to con
vince England of any thing that relates to this
kingdom. TheDrapier whom you mention could
not do it in relation to the halfpence ; neither
can the parliament here convince you that we
ought not to be put in so miserable condition
in every article of distress. Why should the
Schomberg family be so uneasy at a thing they
were so long warned of °, and were told they
might prevent for fifty pounds? But here I
wish youi" ladyship would put the queen in mind
of what passed between her majesty and me
upon the subject of Ireland, when she appeared
so much to pity this distressed kingdom, and
gave me leave to write to her, if ever I lived to
see her queen ; that she would answer my letter,
' One of these. Dr. Delaney informs us, was this. Instead
of, " Saltern ut sciat hospes,'' &c. ; it stood thus : " Saltern ut
sciat viator indignabundus, quali in cellula, tanti ductoris
cineres delitescunt." The other, I find, was, that after cineres
there were introduced the words, in opprobrium haredum.
^ Certainly Swift's conduct was wholly blameless in this
affair; for he made representations of all sorts, respectful
and kind, as well as urgent and indignant, on the subject.

—1731— 29
and promised that in such a case she would use
all her credit to relieve us; whereupon I desired
Dr. Arbuthnot, who was present, to be witness
of what she said, and her majesty confirmed it.
I will not ask what the event hath been. If
any state-scribble written here should happen
to reach London, I entreat your ladyship would
continue to do me the justice of believing my
innocence ; because I lately assured the Duke
of Dorset * that I never would have a hand in
any. such thing ; and I gave him my reason
before his secretary, that looking upon this
kingdom's condition as absolutely desperate, I
would not prescribe a dose to the dead.
Some parts of your letter I do not understand.
Mrs. Barber was recommended to me by Dr. De
laney, who is now in London, and whom I once
presented to you at Marble-hill. She seems to be
a woman of piety, and a poetical genius ; and
though I never visited her in my life, yet I was
disposed to do her good offices on the doctor's
account, and her own good character. By Lady
M  I cannot guess * whom you mean : ^ Mrs.
Hey wood I have heard of as a stupid, infamous,
scribbling woman, but have not seen any of her
productions. And now, madam, I utterly ac-
5 Lord-lieutenant of Ireland. See p. 33.
* We guess that Lady Masham was meant. Swift's regard
for this lady long survived her power.
* Eliza Heywood, damned to everlasting celebrity in the
Dunciad.

30 —1731—
quit your ladyship of all things that may regard
me, except your good opinion, and that very
little share I can pretend to in your memory.
I never knew a lady who had so many qualities
to beget esteem ; but how you act as a friend is
out of my way to judge.
As to the queen, whom I never offended,
since it would be presumption to imagine I
ever voluntarily came into her thoughts, so it
must be a mortification to think, when I happen
to be named in her presence, it is usually to
my disadvantage. I remember to have once
told her majesty how hard a thing it was, that
when a prince or great minister hath received
an ill impression Ojf any person, although from
the most false information, although the prince
were demonstrably convinced of the person''s
innocence, yet the ® impression still continued;
and her majesty readily condemned the severity
of such a proceeding. I had said the same
thing before to Sir Robert Walpole, who, upon
reporting it to others, was pleased to give it a
turn that I did not deserve.
I remember the plaid, but I forget the
'^ crown, and the meaning of it. If you had
^ Swift was fond of repeating this doctrine, which is per^
fectly true, not of great men only, but of all mankind ; though
it is most observable in the great, whose resentments are more
effective than those of private persons.
' The crown of Lilliput : see vol. i. page 220. As the crown
was sent in the name of Gulliver, and with a ktftr in rather
too light a style. Swift perhaps did not choose to remember it.

-1731— 31
thought fit to have sent me as much of the
plaid as would have made me a morning cap,
before it fell to the share of the lowest of your
women, I should have been proud that my head
should have worn your livery; but if you are
weary of your character it must lie upon my
head, for I know no other whom it will fit.
And. if your ladyship will not allow it to be a
character, I am sure it may pass for a prediction.
If you should put the same fancy into the
queen's head, I must send her a much larger
character, and in royal paper, otherwise she
will not be able to seize the handle in it.
I fear so long a letter is beyond your mercy to
forgive. But your ladyship is sure to be easy
till Mr. Pope shall tell me that you are content
to receive another. I should be heartily sorry
if your increase, in honour and employment
hath not been accompanied with' increase of
health. Let Mr. Pope in all his letters give me
a particular account on this head^ and pray God
I may never have the least motive to pity you.
For as a courtier I forgive you comme endurcie
(which I once charged on my Lord Chesterfield,
and he did not deny it.) And you have not a
favourite or flatterer who makes more outward
offers of wishes for your ease and happiness,
than I do from prayers from the bottom of ray
heart, which proceed entirely from that real
respect and esteem wherewith I am, &c.
JoNATH. Swift.

32 —1731—
CHARACTER OF SIR ROBERT WALPOLE,
(afterwards earl of orford),
BY DEAN SW^IFT.

[This is not dhted : the original is carefully written and cor-
rectAin Swift's own hand. It has never been (that we
know of ) published. In this bitter and exaggerated cata
logue of the minister's failings, there will still be found
some traits of his real manner and character.]

With favour and fortune fastidiously blest.
He 's loud in his laugh, and he 's coarse in his jest ;
Of favour and fortune unmerited, vain,
A sharper in trifles, a dupe in the main ;
Achieving of nothing, still promising wonders.
By dint of experience, improving in blunders ;
Oppressing true merit, exalting the base.
And selling his country to purchase his place ;
A jobber of stocks by retailing false news ;
A prater at court in the style of the stews ;
Of virtue and worth by profession a giber ;
Of juries and senates the bully and briber.
Though I name not the wretch, you all know who I
mean —
'Tis the cur-dog of Britain, and spaniel of Spain.

_t731— 33
THE DUKE OF DORSET TO LADY SUFFOLK.
[[Lionel, seventh Earl and first Duke of Dorset, born in 1687-
He filled several great offices in tlje state, and was twice
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland: first in 1731, when'^e wrote
the following letter, and again twenty years after. Swift
(though displeased wi% the duke for some inattention to
his recommendations of individuals) does justiofe to his in
tentions, his manners, and his talents. " I do ilot know,"
he says, " a more agneeable person in conversation, one
more easy or of a better taste, with a greater variety of
knowledge, than the Duke of Dorset." (Let. Jan. 1737.) His
grace died in 1765, having held high offices under Queen
Anne, and the three first Georges,] Dublin Castle, Nov. 9, 1731.
MADAM, What shall I say for not return
ing you my hearty thanks sooner for your kind
remembrance of a poor Irish friend ? I think it
is best not to trouble you with excuses, for I
can make none that are good. I will not add to
my impertinence by making you the messenger
of my compliments to Mr. Pope : when I see
him I will make them myself, in the best man
ner I am able, and at the same time I hope he
will grant me a free conference * upon the subject

' The technical name for a personal discussion between the
Lords and Commons. The subject of the intended conference
was, no doubt. Pope's epitaph on the duke's father.
VOL. II. D

34 -1731-
matter of the epitaph. Your newspapers talk
of nothing but the great « guest you have in Eng
land : I cannot but say I wish he had seen a little
of our finery upon the ^birthday: it would have
giveuhim no ill idea of the grandeur of a king
of England, to have seen such an eclat in a
corner of his dominions. I believe more rich
clothes were never seen together, except at St.
James.*s, and some of them so well chosen, that
one would have sworn a certain countess of my
acquaintance had given her assistance upon this
occasion. I should not do justice to Captain
Pearce's genius, if I did not give you some
account of the ball-room that he fitted up for
this night's entertainment — the usual place was
thought too little, and therefore it was resolved
to make use of the old * hall, which had been
long disused and very much out of repair;
however, he so contrived it, that I think I never
saw a more beautiful scene : I am sure you
won't think that an improper expression, when

* The Duke of Lorraine, who spent a month or two in
England at this period, and for whom several entertainments
were made,
' 30th October.
* A fine room in Dublin Castle, now called St. Patrick's
Hall; which, ever since the Duke of Dorset's repair, has been
emfloyed on the state occasions of the Irish court,, and par
ticularly on those connected with the Order of St. Patrick.

—1731— 35
I tell you the walls were all covered with can
vas, painted in perspective ; the space was a
large one, but it was so contrived as to make it
look as big again ; there were your arches, your
pyramids, your obelisks, and pillars of all orders
and denominations : in' short, there were all
those things that your fine folks talk on now-a-
days; and the lights were so perfectly well
disposed, that. Upon my word, it had a most sur
prising fine effect. Some jokers were of opinion
that our room might be better than our com
pany, but they were perfectly convinced to the
contrary, when they saw how it was- filled.
Newspapers, you know, are not always to be
depended upon ; and therefore I dare say yOu'll
believe me, when I tell you it was infinite plea-'
sure to me to find, by your letter, the king was
so much better : my concern upon that head I
believe you think goes somewhat farther than
merely the duty of a loyal subject towards his
master. I take it for granted this letter will
find their majesties settled." at St. James's for the
winter, and I hope both of them in perfect
health* Her *grace desires her best corapli'-'

* Eliaabeth Cdilyer,^ fiiece to the first Earl of Portmow.
She had been Maid of honisto to Queen Anne, aJnd Was lady of
the bedchamber to Princess Caroline, and her groom of the
stole when she became queen ; an office which we have seen
sHe £ad lately resigned in Lady SuflFolk's favour. She was
married to the Aike in 1709, and died in 1?'68.
D 2

36 —1732—
ments may be made to you ; and that you may
get rid of your head-aches, face-aches, and all
other your troublesome companions, is the
hearty wish of Yours, &c. Dorset.

THE COMTESSE LA LIPPE TO LADY SUFFOLK.
[Vol. ii. p. 22.3

Stadthaguen, March 25 (April 1), 1732.
MADAM, I MUST give your ladyship this new
trouble to release you of another. Since you
was so kind to take care of the pearl necklace,
without finding an opportunity to sell it to ad
vantage, I must beg you would deliver it to
Madam Shallorf, the privy counsellor's lady;
who, may be, will find some opportunity or
other to send it me back again, so your ladyship
will be rid of it ; and do with the hiedals what
you think fit, or send them by Mr. Peterswald
over again. I beg a thousand pardons for the
trouble I gave you, madam. Your ladyship
will have heard, by this time, what a sad acci
dent has happened to my poor son, who was
near to be burned with hi#«Jady in their beds at
'Buckebourg, and lost the finest apartment in
¦ The capital town of his territory.

—1732— 37
the house. I am so entirely persuaded of your
good nature, and of your friendship to us, that
I do not doubt you will pity him. He is still a
most humble servant to your ladyship, and one
that would be entirely happy if he could hope
to wait on you once more, either at Spa or at
Hanover, if our most gracious queen should
ever come there again. That only could make
me leave my retreat, too, since I am grown so
wretchedly old and stupid, that I dare not ven
ture any where ; but to wait on her majesty I
should set aside all other consideration. Pray,
dear madam, stand my friend, whensoever you
find an opportunity to pay my most humble
duties to their majesties, and give me leave to
profess myself for ever, madam, Yours, &c.
Sophie de Schaumbourg and Lippe.
I am quite alone with my ^grand-children,
but expect my son home again after Easter.

" One of these was the Count de la Lippe, painted by Sir
Joshua, (vol. i. p. 298) of whom, if it were only as acommentary
on that admirable picture, some account will be acceptable.
He was one of the bravest and aiblest officers of his day;
and having distinguished himself when a youth at Dettingen,
and in his maturity all over Europe, and especially at Minden,
he was, in 1761, selected to command the British army sent to
assist Portugal against Spain. On this occasion, and at a sub
sequent visit, he reorganized the Portuguese army, repaired
their fortresses, built the celebrated fort called La Lippe,
and regenerated the military institutions of that people. He

38 _J732—
LADY HERVEY TO LADY SUFFOLK.
[Vol. i.p. 181.]

Ickworth, Aug. 21, 1732.
If I am right in my computation, dear Lady
Suffolk is by this time returned to Kensington,
where she will receive this proof of my obedi-
was not only a brave and active practical soldier, but was
skilful in the scientific branches of his profession, and em
ployed much of his time and revenue in military inventions
and experiments. He died in 1774, in the fifty-fourth year
of his age. " Sublime thoughts and heroic sentiments,"
say his biographers, "were as familiar and natural to his
mind as to the noblest characters of Greece or Rome. The
animation of his features announced the elevation ftnd sagacity,
kindness and serenity of his soul." His taste in the fine
arts was equal to his other qualities: he was a general
linguist, a fine draftsman, and an admirable musician, and
seems to have united as many amiable with as many heroic
qualities as any man of these latter days. But it must not
be concealed, that, like other elevated minds, he showed some
occasional symptoms of oddity or wildness ; and the two fol
lowing anecdotes, amongst many which might be quoted, will
perhaps induce the reader to think his courage rather insane
than intrepid.
During one of his visits to England, a friend (Mr. Hamilton)
was driving him in a phaeton and four down Henley Hill : the
count happening to move, Mr. Hamilton, supposing him to be
alarmed, desired him not to be afraid ,• upon which La Lippe
quietly drew from his pocket a large knife, and cut the reins.
Whether this was to show perfect carelessness of danger, or
satirically to express that he thought himself as safe after the
reins were cut as before, has not been told. In his own ter-

—1732— 39
ence j in return for which I do not doubt your
writing to me very soon ; it will be both justice
and policy in you, as it will reward my present
and excite my future diHgence, which hereafter
you may require in more material things ; if,
having found me faithful in a little, you shall give
me authority over much.
Perhaps you im^ine you can receive no news
out of the country, but I shall convince you to
the contrary, by informing you that Lady Bristol
has lived with me a whole fortnight, with all
civility and kindness; I am become first fa
vourite; it would puzzle a poet to find any
thing soft, kind, and sweet enough to liken her
to it — down, turtle-doves, and honey, are faint
images of her * disposition ; and, if it is as good
and joyful a thing for mother and daughter to

ritory in Germany, he amused himself with military manoeuvres
and experiments ; and one day he invited his little court and
visitors to dine with him after a review. The dinner was
served in a tent on the ground ; and towards the latter end
of the repast the count was observed to look several times at
his watch, and to put it up again, and call for another bottle :
at last some one asked the reason of this.'' "Why,'' said he,
" I have ordered this tent to be mined by a new method^— it is
to be blown up at a certain minute, and I am anxious to go
out to see the explosion." The tent, it will readily be believed,
was soon cleared, without waiting for the other bottle.
' The reader is by this time so well acquainted with Lady
Bristol, that any commentary on the character in the text is
unnecessary.

40 —1732—
livse together in unity, as It is for brethren to do
so, sh^e and I have been very like that precious
grease that mad# Aaron so clean and so decent
a figure heretofore.
I have read the two pamphlets you recom
mended to me, and like them extremely. I
think the author's intentions very good, his no
tions very just, and his prirlfciples very honest,
but his style is not,' to my thinking, so well as it
might be ; his frequent repetitions, instead of
making him clear, render him the contrary, and
he only confounds what he designs to illustrate :
let me know if you are of the same opinion, or
if your partiality to his subject makes you ap
prove his manner of treating it. Altogether I
like him so well, that I shall be glad to read
more of his works. I beg, in my turn, I may
recommend a*book to you, which I dare believe
will please you : it is writ by Tindal : the title
of it is, Christianity as old as the Creation, &c.
I beg, as you read it, you will give me your
sentiments upon it.
In the mean time, I expect some account
of your travels, which I hope you have gone
through with health, and have partaken of some
of the pleasure, which I dare say you have

' It is much to be regretted that this amiable (and otherwise
sensible) woman was indited to what was tenderly csXieAfree
thinking : she had been bred in a bad school. Queen Caroline

—1732— fl
imparted to all thos^you have been with. Let
me know what is doing at Kensington, an'& if
the Countess (of Bristol), like piost sweet things,
has turned sour, or been in a ferment, since
her abode amongst ye. May I trouble you to
give my service to my cribbage acquaintance ?
Pray warn them against cooling themselves
these hot nights ^n the garden. I am ashamed
to see how tedious a letter I have writ; b^it
is always with so much regret I bid dear Lady
Suffolk adieu, that I think I ought rather to
claim some reward for doing it now than make
any apology for deferring it so long.

LADY HERVEY TO LADY SUFFOLK.

Sept. 30, 1732.
I REJOICE with you, dear Lady Suffolk, on the
king's safe return, which I am as heartily glad
of as any subject he has. If you \yill present
my duty and congratulation on this occasion,
and his majesty will accept them, you will oblige,
and he will make me happy.

was not herself perfectly orthodox, and Lord Hervey was one
of the first Englishmen of rank who professed that infidelity
which was so fashionable in the last century. It is to be feared
that his tutor. Dr. Middleton, had some influence in pervert
ing both his lordship's and Lady Hervey's mind on this most
important point.

42 —1732—
Lord Bristol has had a very severe fit of the
colic, for which both he and we have been con
fined to his room, so that we have been but once
at * Bury ; a pleasure I by no means regret. The
only things that pleased me there were the
*Duke of Grafton's daughters. The two
3 youngest are the best behaved children I ever
saw : but Lady* Caroline is ^e best bred wo
man, the most agreeable dancer, the genteelest
and the prettiest creature that ever lived. I
envy the duke that girl. You may guess what
I think of any one's daughter whom I wish my
own. I designed to have been very tedious and
very troublesome to you to-day ; but a message
I have just received to desire I will dress to go
to Bury, will make me reasonable in spite of my
unreasonable intention. I shall therefore defer

' The fair of Bury St. Edmunds, a celebrated festival in
those days amongst the gentry of Suffolk.
* Charles, second Dulce of Grafton, who married Henrietta,
grand-daughter of the first Duke of Beaufort.
' The two youngest daughters were. Lady Harriot, born in
1 723, who died in 1 735 ; and Lady Isabella, born in 1 729,
married, in 1741, to the first Marquis of Hertford.
* Lady Caroline Fitzroy, afterwards too well known as
Lady Caroline Petersham and Lady Harrington. Contem
porary letters are full of anecdotes of this lady's conduct and
manners, which if but half of them were true, would have
made Lady Hervey repent the accomplishment of her wish.
She was born in 1722, married in 1746 to the second Earl of
Harrington.

—1732— 43
all I designed to say to you on a certain ® subject
until another time, and will only assure you for
the present that my doubts never extended so
far as to your merits, with regard to which I am
perfectly orthodox and catholic. And you need
not exercise that envied faith of yours in be-
lieving any thing so evident as that I am, &c.
M. H.

LADY BETTY GERMAINE TO DEAN SWIFT.
[This letter, with Swift's answer, and Lady Betty's reply, are
so important to Lady Suffolk's history, that, although not
strictly belonging to the present collection, the editor thinks
he ought not to omit them.] Nov. 7, 1 732.
I SHOULD have answered yours sooner, but
that I every day expected another from you,
with your orders to speak to the ^ duke; which
I should with great pleasure have obeyed, as
it was to serve a friend of yours. Mrs. ^ Floyd
is now, thank God, in as good health as I have

' Np doubt the infidelity which breaks out in the last letter,
and for which Lady Suffolk seems to have chidden her friend.
' Her nephew, the Duke of Dorset, then Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland. See vol. ii. p. 33.
2 See vol. ii. p. 18.

44 _1732—
seen her these many years, though she has still
her winter cough hanging upon her ; but that,
I fear, I must never expect she should be quite
free from at this time of day. All my trouble
with her now is, to make her drink wine enough
according to the doctor's order, which is not
above three or four glasses, such as are com
monly filled at sober houses ; and that she makes
so great a rout with, and makes so many faces,
that there is nobody that did not know her
perfectly well, but would extremely suspect she
drank drams in private.
I am sorry to find our tastes so different in
the same person ; and as every body has a
natural partiality to their own opinion, so it is
surprising to me to find Lady Suffolk dwindled
in yours, who rises infinitely in mine the more
and the longer I know her. But you say you
" will say no more of courts, for fear of growing
angry;" and indeed I think you are so already,
since you level all without knowing them, and
seem to think that no one who belongs to a
court can act right. I am sure this cannot be
really and truly your sense, because it is unjust;
and if it is, I shall suspect there is something of
your old maxim in it (which I ever admired and
found true) that you must have offended them,
because you do not forgive.
I have been about a fortnight from Knowle,
and shall next Thursday go there again for about

—1733— 45
three weeks, where I shall be ready and willing
to receive your commands, who am most faith
fully and sincerely yours, E.G.

DEAN SWIFT TO LADY BETTY GERMAINE.

[^The following letter is undoubtedly a strong proof of peevish
ness and injustice. The Dean's own letters to Lady Suf
folk, of little more than a year before, contradict much of this
statement of grievances. But it must be recollected, that
Swift was just at this time suffering the nearer approaches
of that dreadful malady of the spirits which soon after re
duced him to imbecility ; and if the date of the letter be
correct, his feelings were at this moment particularly ex
cited by the death of Gay, on whose account (justly or not
we will not here argue) he founded his quarrel with Lady
Suffolk. I incline, however, to believe the date erroneous :
it was probably written before he received the account of
Gay's death, though it was dated and sent afterwards.]

January 8, 1733.
MADAM, Although I have butjust received
the honour of your ladyship's letter, yet, as
things stand, I am determined, against my usual
practice, to give you no respite, but to answer
it immediately, because you have provoked me
with your Lady Suffolk.

46 _1733—
It is six years last spring since I first went
to visit my friends in England, after the queen's
death. Her present majesty heard of my ar
rival, and sent at least nine times to command
my attendance before 'I would obey her, for
several reasons not hard to guess ; and among
others, because I had heard her character from
those who knew her well. At last I went, and
she received me very graciously. I told her
the first time, " that I was informed she loved
to see odd persons; and that having sent for a
* wild boy from Germany, she had a curiosity to
see a wild " deail from Ireland." I was not
mucli struck with the honour of being sent for,
because I knew the same distinction had been
offered to others-, with whom it would not give
me much pride to be compared. I never went
once but upon command ; and Mrs. Howard
(now Lady Suffolk) was usually the person who
sent for me, both at Leicester-house and Rich
mond. Mr. Pope (with whom I lived) and
Mr. Gay were then great favourites of Mrs.
Howard; especially the latter, who was then

• Peter.
» One of Swift's complaints a^inst the queen wasy that she
had said he was an odd man. Surely this address, and the
designation of himself as a wiid dean, would have justified
even a stronger expression.

—1733— 47
one of her * led-captains. He had written a
very ingenious book of Fables, for the use of
her {the queen's') younger * son, and she often
promised to provide for him. But some time
before, there came out a * libel against Mr. Wal
pole, who was informed it was written by Gay ;
and although Mr. Walpole owned he was con
vinced that it was not written by Gay, yet he
never would pardon him, but did him a hundred
ill offices to the princess. Walpole was at that
time very civil to me, and so were all the pec^le
in power. He invited me and some of my friends

' This phrase is as unjust and contemptuous towards his
poor friend as against the lady. But, however the dean might
characterise the intercourse between them, he deviates from the
fact when he insinuates that Lady Suffolk's friendship for Gay
had suffered any alteration : it continued unabated up to his
death; and we have seen, that during' the period when Gay
was so obnoxious at court, and that the Duke and Duchess; of
Queensberry were forbidden to appear there on his account.
Lady Suffolk maintained her affectionate and constant inter
course with him and them.
' William, Duke of Cumberland : but I do not find any
where a, promise o{ Mrs. Mowaxd's to. provide for Gay. She,
on the contrary, often, as we have seen^ lamented to- him her
inability to serve him beyOnd what she had done.
' It is not even surmised what this.Ubel was;, but the Beg
gars' Opera, of which the chief zest was its severity on courtiers
and ministers^ and on Walpole individually, sufficiently ex
plains Gay's feelings; which it seems probable that Mrs>
Howard may have in some degree shared.

48 —1733—
to dine with him at Chelsea. After dinner, I
took an occasion to say, what I had observed of
princes and great minivers, " that if they
heard an ill thing of a private person, who ex
pected some favour, although they were after
ward convinced that the person was innocent,
yet they would never be reconciled." Mr.
Walpole knew well enough that I meant Mr.
Gay. I afterward said the same thing to the
princess, with the same intention, and she con
fessed it a great injustice. But Mr. Walpole
gave it ^another turn ; for he said to some of
his friends, and particularly to a lord, a near
relation of yours, " that I had dined with him,
and had been making apologies for myself," — it
seems for my conduct in her late majesty's
reign, in which no man was more innocent, and
particularly more officious to do good offices to
many of that party which was then out of power,
as it is well known Mrs, Howard was then in
great favour, and openly protected Mr. Gay ; at

' If Swift, as he owns, only made a general statement, with-
out any mention of Gay, it is probable that Walpole really
thought that he meant the apophthegm to apply to his own
case ; and as to the dean's protestation of innocence in the last
year of the queen (the question being, not general innocence
or guilt, but innocence of writing lampoons), no one who has
read his Journal to Stella, and indeed his lighter poems can
without some surprise, read this assertion of innocence.

—1733— 49
least she saw him often, and professed herself his
friend. But Mr. Walpole could scarcely be per-
suaded to let him hold a poor little office for a
second 'year, of commissioner to a lottery. When
Itook my leave of her highness, on coming hither,
she was very gracious ; told me "the medals
she had promised me were not ready, but she
would send them to me." However, by her
commands, I sent her some plaids for herself
and the princesses, and was too gallant to hear
of any offers of payment. Next spring I came
again to England; was received the same way;
and as I had many hints given me that the
court at Leicester-fields would endeavour to
settle me in England (which I did not much
regard) the late king died. I went, by Mrs.
Howard's orders, to kiss their new majesties'
hands, and was particularly distinguished by
the queen. In a few weeks, the queen said to
Mrs. Howard (alluding to one of Mr. Gay's
fables), " that she would take up the Hare ;"
and bade her to put her in mind, in settling the
family, to find some employment for Mr. Gay;
but in the event, it proved only an offer to be a

' •' Could scarcely be :" perhaps so ; but he teas : for Gay
held the office from the year 1 726 to the year before his death,
though he had in 1727 satirised on the public stage Sir Robert
Walpole, and his brother and colleague Lord Townshend.
VOL. II. E

50 —1733—
gentleman " usher to a girl of two years old,
which aU his friends (and I among the rest) ad-
vised him not to accept; and accordingly he
excused himself with the utmost respect. This
I and every body else were sure must have
been a management of Mr. Walpole.
As to myself, in a few weeks after the king's
death, I found myself not well, and was resolved
to take a step to Paris for my health, having an
opportunity of doing it with some advantages
and recommendations. But my friends advised
me first to consult Mrs. Howard, because, as
they knew less of courts than I, they were
strongly possessed that the spromise made me
might succeed, since a change was all I desired.
I wrote to her for her opinion, and particularly
conjured her, " since I had long done with
courts, not to use me like a courtier, but give
me her sincere advice ;" which she did, both in
a letter and to some friends. It was, •' by all
means not to go ; it would look singular, and per
haps disaffected;" ^and to my friends enlarged
* See what has been already said on this point in vol. i.
page 31.
9 Not a word of a promise before, but " hints that the new
court would endeavour to settle me ;" but even of these hints
no other traces are found than the suggestions of Bolingbroke's
friendship : and all the world knows how little Bolingbroke's
suggestions could bind the ministers of the house of Hanover.
1 See Mrs. Howard's letter, vol, i. page 26 1 .

—1733— 51
upon the good intentions of the court toward
me. I staid : my health grew worse. I left
Mr. Pope's house, went to a private lodging
near Hammersmith, and continuing ill, I wrote
to Mrs. Howard, with my duty to the queen, took
coach for Chester, recovered in my journey,
and came over hither; where, although I have
ever since lived in obscurity, yet I have the
misfortune, without any grounds, except misin
formation, to lie under her majesty's displea
sure, as I have been assured by more than two
honourable persons of both sexes; and Mr, Gay'^
is in the same condition. For these reasons, as
I did always, so I do still, think Mrs. Howard
(now my Lady Suffolk) to be an absolute
courtier. ^Let her show you the character I
wrote of her (and whereof no one else has a
copy), and I take Mr. Pope and Mr. Gay, who
judge more favourably, to be a couple of sim
pletons.

' Sir Walter Scott observes, " that the use of the present
tense shows that this letter had been written before its actual
date of the 8th of January ; for the dean had intelligence of
Gay's death on the 20th of December." The first line of the
letter says that he has just had Lady Betty's letter of the 7th
of November ; so that the letter must have been post-dated.
^ In all this detail, unjust and peevish as it is, as regards
Mrs. Howard, we have positive proof of the falsehood of the
story about Lord Bathurst's failure having driven Swift into
exile to curse Queen Caroline.
e2

52 —1733—
In my answer to the last letter which my
Lady Suffolk honoured me with, I did, with
great civility, discharge her from ever giving
herself another trouble of that kind. I have a
great esteem for her good sense and taste. She
would be an ornament to any court ; and I do
not in the least pity her for not being a female
minister, which I never looked on as an ad
vantageous character to a great and wise lady ;
of which I could easily produce instances. Mr.
Pope, besides his natural and acquired talents,
is a gentleman of very extraordinary ^candour,
and is consequently apt to be too great a be
liever of assurances, promises, professions, en
couragements, and the like words of course.
He asks nothing; and thinks, like a philo
sopher, that he wants nothing. Mr. Gay is in
all regards as honest and sincere a man as ever
I knew ; whereof neither princes nor ministers
are either able to judge or inclined to encourage:
which, however, I do not take for so high a
breach of politics as they usually suppose. For,
however insignificant wit, learning, and virtue
may be thought in the world, it perhaps would

¦» Pope and Gay knew and acknowledged the injustice of the
dean's prejudice against Lady Suffolk. He therefore endea-
vours to depreciate their evidence as to the matter in question,
although they, and they only, except Lady Suffolk, knew the'
true state of the case.

—1733— 53
do government no hurt to have a little of them
on its side.
If you have gone thus far in reading, you
are not so wise as I thought you to be. But I
will never offend again with so much length.
I write only to justify myself. I know you have
been always a zealous Whig, and so am I to
this day; but nature has not given you leave to
be virulent. As to myself, I am of the old
Whig principles, without the modern articles
and refinements.
Your ladyship says not one syllable to inform
me whether you approve of what I sent you to
be written on the ^monument, nor whether you
would have it in Latin or English.
I am ever, with true respect, &c.
JoNATH. Swift.
The friend I named, who I was afraid would
die, is recovered, and his preferment is by turns
in the crown and the primate; but the next
vacancy will not be in the crown's disposal.

* In St. Andrew's Church, Dublin, to the memory of her
sister, Lady Penelope Berkeley.

51 —1733—
FROM LADY BETTY GERMAINE TO DEAN
SWIFT.

[P. 71.]

[This is an excellent letter ; it is written with as much force,
more logic, and a greater knowledge of the world, than Swift's.
Lady Betty was one of his earliest and most constant friends ;
but she does not abandon her later friends to his injustice,
and she answers with the most victorious success the dean's
complaints of Mrs. Howard's sincerity, both with regard to
poor Gay and to himself.]

February 8, 1732-3.
I RECEIVED yours of January 8th but last
week, so find it has lain long on the road after
the date. It was brought me while at dinner;
that very lady sitting close to me whom you
seem to think such an absolute courtier. She
knew your hand, and inquired much after you,
as she always does ; but I, finding her name
frequently mentioned, not with that kindness
I am sure she deserves, put it into my pocket
with silence and surprise. Indeed, were it in
people's power that live in a court with the
appearance of favour, to do all they desire for
their friends, they might deserve their anger,
and be blamed when every thing does not happen
right to their minds ; but that, I believe, never
was the case of any one : and in this particular

—1733— 55
of Mr. Gay, thus far I know, and so far I will
answer for, that she was under very great con
cern that nothing better could be got for him ;
and the friendship upon all other occasions in
her own power ^ that she showed him, did not
look like a double-dealer.
As to that part concerning yourself and her,
I suppose it is my want of comprehension that I
cannot find out why she was to blame to give
you advice when you asked it, which had all the
appearance of sincerity, good-nature, and right
judgment. And if after that the court did not
do what you wanted, and she both believed and
wished they would, was it her fault? At least,
I cannot find out that you have hitherto proved
it upon her. And though you say you lamented
the hour you had seen her, yet I cannot tell
how to suppose that your good sense and justice
can impute any thing to her, because it did not
fall out just as she endeavoured and hoped it
would. As to your creed in politics, I will heartily
and sincerely subscribe to it ; that I detest ava
rice in courts — corruption in ministers — schisms
in religion — illiterate fawning betrayers of the
church in mitres ; but at the same time, I pro
digiously want an infallible judge to determine
when it is really so : for, as I have lived long in
the world, and seen many changes, I know
* Of which these volumes afford numerous and new proofs.

56 —1733—
those out of power and place always see the
faults of those who are in, with dreadful large
spectacles; and I dare say, you knew many
instances of it in Lord Oxford's time '. But the
strongest in my memory is Sir Robert Walpole
being first pulled to pieces in the year 1720,
because the South Sea did not rise high enough ;
and since that he has been to the full as well
banged about because it did rise too high. So
experience has taught me how wrong, unjust,
and senseless party factions are ; therefore I
am determined never wholly to believe any side
or party against the other : and, to show that
I will not, as my friends are in and out of all
sides, so my house receives them all together,
and people meet here that would fight in any
other place. Those of them that have great
and good qualities and virtues I love and admire,
in which number is Lady Suffolk; and I do like
and love her, because I believe, and, as far as I
am capable of judging, know her to be a wise,
discreet, honest, and sincere courtier, who will
promise no farther than she can perform, and
will always perform what she does promise ; so
now you have my creed as to her.

1 How justly does Lady Betty ridicule the application to
individuals of these general and sweeping condemnations ; and
how delicately does she hint that Swift's own hero. Lord Oxford,
and his enemy, Sir Robert, have been alike liable to this kind
of misrepresentation !

—1733— 57
I thought I had told you in my last — at least
I am sure I designed it — that I desire you would
do just as you like about the monument, and
then it will be most undoubtedly approved by
Your most sincere and faithful servant,
E, Germaine.

LADY HERVEY TO LADY SUFFOLK.

[This letter is placed a little out of the order of date, that the
correspondence of Lady Betty Germaine and Dean Swift
might not be interrupted.]

' Godwood, Dec. 29, 1732.
Though I shall very soon have the pleasure
of seeing dear Lady Suffolk, I think injustice
and gratitude I cannot help sending you this
acquittance, having received not only payment
of the debt I demanded, but such good interest
for it. Your paper has such credit with me,
that I do assure you I had rather have it than
most people's coin; therefore I beg, whenever
you have received any little sum from me, you
will pay it by bills of exchange.
We expect a great deal of company to-day,
which has not happened before since I have

' The seat of the Duke of Richmond, near Chichester.

58 —1733—
been here. I believe we shall not be much the
better for it ; for cyphers in company do not,
like cyphers in arithmetic, add to the figures
and increase their value — unless indeed it be
by comparison.
The " duchess still keeps her room and her
couch. Part of the morning I spend there in
hearing Mr. ' Hill read, which is not the least
agreeable part of a whole agreeable day. I am
just summoned to that meeting, but cannot at
tend that, nor conclude my letter, till I have
assured my dear Lady Suffolk that I am not less
than formerly, and more I cannot be, her faith
ful humble servant.

LORD CHESTERFIELD TO MRS. HOWARD.

[Vol. i. p. 1.]

[Scarborough, Aug. 1733.]
MADAM, I HAVE heard that ladies often com
mand, what they would be sorry to be obeyed

' Of Richmond. See vol. i. pp. 308. 329.
^ Aaron Hill, one of the minor poets, the translator of
Voltaire's Zaire; but best remembered for a quarrel with
Pope, in which Pope was, as Johnson says, wanton in his
attack, and mean in his retreat.

— 1733— 59
in. I do not know whether your command to
me to write to you from hence was not of that
sort; however, I determined at all events to
obey ; for if you have really desired to hear
from a very faithful servant of yours, I should
have been very sorry to have omitted it ; and
if not, I have at once the excuse of obedience,
and the pleasure, of revenge, by taking you at
your word.
This preamble being finished, which (by the
way) is generally the most difficult part of a
letter, my difficulty begins, which is, what to
say. Compliments you shall have none : they
are sacred to falsehood, and would be profaned
by sincerity ; so that here is a great and luxu
riant branch of epistolary commerce entirely
cut off.
The next thing required in a letter is news ;
but as to that, I may with great truth make
use of that short but comprehensive form of
words of most letter-writers in the country to
their friends in town, — which is, this place is
so barren of news, and affords so few materials
for a letter, that it would be but trespassing
upon your patience, to trouble you with a long
scroll from hence. However, you shall have
the present state of Scarborough such as it is.
The ladies here are innumerable, and I really
believe they all come for their healths, for
they look very ill. The men of pleasure are

60 —1733—
'Lord Carmichael, ^Colonel Ligonier, and the
celebrated ' Tom Paget, who attend upon the
*Duke of Argyll all day, and dance with the
pretty ladies at night. Here are besides hun
dreds of Yorkshire beaux, who play the inferior
parts, and, as it were, only tumble, while those
three dance upon the high ropes of gallantry.
The grave people are mostly malignants, or, in
ministerial language, notorious Jacobites, such
as "Lord Stair, ^Marchmont, '^Anglesea, and

' John, eldest son of the Earl of Hyndford.
' Afterwards Lord Ligonier.
^ See p. 6.
* See pp. 8. 11.
' John, second Earl of Stair, lately dismissed by Sir Robert
Walpole, not only from the office of vice-admiral of Scotland,
but from his regiment of dragoons. After Walpole's fall he
was restored, and served with credit at Dettingen ; but after
that battle he resigned his military rank, indignant, as he
said, at the king's unjust partiality to the Hanoverians. On
the rebellion of 1745, he however nobly buried these differ
ences in oblivion, and was made commander in chief. He died
in 1747.
^ Alex. Hume, second Earl of Marchmont, the father of
Pope's friend, and of Mr. Hume Campbell. He also had been
lately dismissed from the office of lord register of Scotland.
He died in 1 740.
' Arthur Annesley, fifth Earl of Anglesea. ' He died with
out issue in 1737, and was succeeded by his cousin Richard,
the father of him whom the Irish House of Lords admitted to
the Irish Peerage, while the British House rejected him as
illegitimate.

—1733— 61
myself, not to mention many of the House of
Commons of equal disaffection. Moreover "Pul
teney and Lord ^Carteret are expected here soon ;
so that if the ministry do not make a plot of
this meeting, it is plain they do not want one
for this year.
The people of this town are at present in
great consternation, upon a report they have
heard from London, which, if true, they think
will ruin them. I confess I do not believe it;
not but that there is something probable enough
in it. They are informed, that, considering the
vast consumption of these waters, there is a de
sign laid of ' excising them next session ; and
moreover, that as bathing in the sea is become
the general practice of both sexes, and as the
kings of England have always been allowed to
be masters of the seas, every person so bathing
shall be gauged, and pay so much per foot
square as their cubical bulk amounts to, I own

8 See vol. i. page 200.
9 John, second Lord Carteret and first Earl of Granville.
He had lately been recalled from the lord-lieutenancy of Ire
land, and on Walpole's fall, in 1 742, became one of the secre
taries of state. After many changes of office, and an attempt
to be prime minister, he subsided into the easy dignity of
president of the council, in which he died in 1 760. He was
a man of great wit, eloquence, and talents j an elegant scholar,
a fine gentleman, and a daring statesman.
' This was the moment of the greatest popular feeling upon
Sir R Walpole's excise scheme.

6-2 —1733—
there are many objections to this scheme, which,
no doubt, occur to you ; but to be sure too
there is one less than to the last, for this tax
being singly upon water, it is evident it would
be an ease to the landed interest, which it is as
plain the other would not have been.
We have it here that the * Prince of Orange
does not come over. I can hardly believe it,
but wish I knew whether it be so or no, for I
should take my measures accordingly of coming
to town.
I wish you may not think from all this stuff
that these waters are apt to fly into one's head,
which may discourage you from ever coming
here, though I am persuaded they would do
you a great deal of good ; but, to convince you
that at least they have done my head no hurt,
I assure you no man living is with greater truth
or esteem. Madam, yours, &c.
Chesterfield.
I must not forget my compliments to Miss
» Hobart. I make my compliments likewise to
* those who will open and peruse this letter be
fore you do.
* Who was betrothed to the king's eldest daughter, and was
eJcpected in England to celebrate the nuptials.
3 Lady Suffolk's niece, Dorothy Hobart, whom she adopted
and educated, and who was afterwards married to Sir C. Ho-
tham. ^ At the post-office.

—1733— 63

LORD CHESTERFIELD TO LADY SUFFOLK.

Scarborough, Aug. the 17th, 1733.
MADAM, Though I doubted last time whether
I had a justifiable excuse for troubling you, I
am now sure that tha honour of your letter has
not only given me a fair pretence, but has even
laid me under a very agreeable necessity of
doing it.
There is hardly any thing (though ever so
valuable in itself) that may not receive some
additional value from a certain concurrence of
circumstances : this is the case of your letter,
which, though I should at all times have valued
as I ought, yet in this particular juncture I
must look upon it as a most uncommon and
uncourt-like piece of friendship and ^ intre-

' Lord Chesterfield was recalled from the embassy to the
Hague in 1 732, on the pretence of ill health ; but his opposi
tion to the measures of Walpole, and particularly the part he
took against the excise bill, lead us to suspect that there was
some political cause for his recall. He was now dismissed from
his office of lord steward, and was so ill received at court, that
he desisted from going there. This disfavour has been absurdly
attributed to Lord Chesterfield's being so mistaken as to buUd
on Mrs. Howard's influence rather than that of the queen.
We shall see, in his lordship's next letter, that no one knew
more exactly the truth on this point than he did.

64 _1733—
pidity. It may, for ought I know, have brought
you within the ^statute of Edward III. as aiding,
abetting, and comforting the king's enemies ;
for I can depose that it comforted me, and there
are enough ready to depose that I am an enemy
of the king's ; so that, by an induction not very
much strained for the law, your generosity has
drawn you into high treason. Besides, as to
the contents of your letter, did you reflect upon
the strict examinations it was to undergo before
it reached me ; did you consider that it was to
be submitted to the penetration of ^ Lord Lovell,
and to the more slow, but not less sure sagacity
of Mr. Carteret ; that from them a faithful copy
of it was to be transmitted to others of not in
ferior abilities, and known dabs at finding out
mysteries ; and could you then hope that your
allegory of commerce and cribbage could escape
undiscovered, especially since the influence of
the fair royal, and the advantage of the knave,
at those games, give so obvious a key to it?
By what you intimate, the party will come
over at a very convenient time for me, that is,
as I suppose, about Michaelmas ; by which time

* The statute of high treason.
^ Thos. Coke, Lord Lovell, afterwards Earl of Leicester,
and Mr. Edward Carteret (uncle of Lord Carteret), at this
time postmaster-general. He obviously means that his letter
is likely to be intercepted and read.

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all my country excursions will, I hope, be over,
and I quietly in my easy chair, by a good fire,
in St, James's Square. I leave this place (thank
God!) to-morrow, and go to *Cobham's for five
or six days, where I shall diligently look for a
certain bustos that I heard much talked of there
last year : if I meet with it, woe betide it; for we
certainly shall not part without a distich or two.
From thence I shall take London in my way to
Norfolk, in which county I (though unworthy")
shall presume to stay about a fortnight. Should
I be seized there as contraband, I give you fair
warning, I shall produce your letter as a pass
port. Your Hampton Court recreations, I find, give
the lie to those who complain of the uncertainty
and instability of courts, or must at least claim
an exception for yours, since the same joyous
measures have, for these sixteen revolving years,
been steadily pursued without interruption.
Commerce must surely have played its cards
excellently well, to have kept its ground so
long, or  the first courteous opener of
this letter may insert the rest.
I do not think the Duke of Argyll very much
* Stowe.
* Lord Cobham designed to place Lady Suffolk's bust in the
Temple of Friendship at Stowe.
^ He alludes to the residence and influence of Sir Robert
Walpole in Norfolk, and to his own opposition to that minister,
VOL. II. F

66 —1733—
the better for these waters; his head shakes
extremely, and he is much dispirited. He goes
away to-morrow too, and passes the rest of this
year at " Petersham.
I have not been so long in writing this letter
as I have been trying, but in vain, to finish it
with some ingenious paragraph, that should
neatly introduce my being, with the utmost
regard and attachment, Madam, yours, &c.
Chesterfield.
P. S. — I am obliged in gratitude to repeat
my compliments to Miss Hobart ^ as the only
person that has blushed on my score these many
years.

DUCHESS OF QUEENSBERRY TO LADY
SUFFOLK.

[Vol. i. p. 352. An answer to a letter which does not appear,]

Edinburgh, the 1st of June, I may say
the first of summer, 1 734.
MY dear, dear lady SUFFOLK,
The pleasantest thing I have met with a
great while was your letter yesterday noon. I

' Sudbrook, near Petersham. His grace however lived ten
years longer.
' See vol. ii. page 62.

—1734— 67
devoured that instead of my dinner, and found
it better support than all the Scotch beef in the
country. - A-propos, you have half your wish :
the cook-maid is very dirty about herself; but
she says it is her way; she was never otherwise.
I ought to be satisfied, for I have known many
so in a worse case, and convinced by arguments
no better founded, a common excuse for folly,
pride, impertinence, and a long etcetera of those
pretty vices you mentioned — it is their way.
God help them out of yours ! for though dis
agreeable events give a fillip to nature, the con
tinuance is mighty wearing to the spirits, and
by no means to be wished for.
O had I wings like a dove, for then would I fly
away to Marble Hill, and be at rest ! I mean at
rest in my mind. I am tired to death with po
litics and elections ; they ought in conscience to
be but once in an age : and I have not met with
any one in this country who doth not eat with a
knife, and drink a dish of tea. This, added to
many other cutting things, you must own, makes
a dreadful account. My girl ^ and I have been

' The Honr Jane Leveson Gower, third daughter of the
i duchess's first cousin. Lord Gower. Lady Mary Wortley's
satiric pen sweetens into approbation, when she speaks of this
young lady — " The sprouts of this age are such green withered
things, it is a great comfort to us grown up people. At the
same time, I must do justice to a little twig belonging to my
F 2

68 -1734—
at an assembly; mighty happy she, and I much
amused, by the many very extraordinary fashions.
Notwithstanding, I can assure you my tail makes
a notable appearance. Pray tell me your friend's
name, for 1 know none here, except myself,
who I am sure is so, I have not seen the
Duke of Argyll; he has been out of town with
his aunt, Lady Mary; but his brother and I
are great as two "• inkle-weavers. He has made
me a visit.
I assure you my child is very sleepy, or she
would answer Miss Hobart's letter to-night.
She desires her sei'vice. She is improved, and
danced mighty well. I was pleased much al
together : she was a very genteel pretty figure.
I hope Master ' Hebart is quite recovered.
Pray, with my best respects to Mrs. Carteret,
tell her it is a terrible thing that my words
have no weight. You say nothing of Mrs.
Meadows ; has she run away with her brother
and Lady Fanny*? She puts me in mind of

sister Gower ; Miss Jenny is like the Duchess of Queensberry
both inface and spirit." — And'again — " My niece, Jenny Leveson,
is very handsome ; she is really like the Duchess of Queens
berry." Miss Leveson died unmarried, in 1737.
^ A proverbial expression to signify great nearness and in
timacy. ^ .lohn, afterwards second Earl of Buckinghamshire.
* This, no doubt, relates to the marriage of Mr. Meadows,

— 1734— (iO
some play, where the lady cannot bear the
thoughts of being married, unless the man steals
her out of window. The girl was in her own
disposal to all intents and purposes. The duchess
of Leeds ^ is an unhandsome beauty, and rather
disagreeable than otherwise. My Lord Port-
more* is like Lord Essex and Lord Hervey,
which is saying all that man can deserve ; yet
one word more. He is about building a house :
they proposed to him a very fine situation, where
he might have a very fine view of the sea; but
the fine gentleman cried out, " O Christ ! the
sea looks so fierce it frights one."
I write just in the style that Lady ^ Dysart
talks, — very incoherent stuff; but remember I
have your licence, that I believe you love me,
and that I had no patience to stay till the next
post, though I have not time to write so as to
be read. If you can, to be sure you will rejoice
with me, that the sun has shone to-day, — that I

son of Sir Philip Meadows, and brother of the maid of honour,
with Lady Fanny Pierrepont, sister, and ultimately heiress,
of the last Duke of Kingston, and mother, by Sir Philip, of the
first Earl Manvers.
' Julian, daughter of Robert Neale, of Harwell, in Devon,
widow of the third Duke of Leeds, and wife of Lord Portmore.
" Charles CoUyer, second Earl of Portmore.
' Grace, daughter of Sir Thomas Wilbraham, of Woodhay,
Cheshire, widow of Lionel Tollemache, first Earl of Dysart.

70 ^1731—
am in hopes it will on Monday, that I may ride
out ; for on Sundays no such things are allowed
in this country, though we lie, and swear, and
steal, and do all sort of villany every other day
the week round. I shall be delighted to see
you, though I believe not till next month. If
you let me hear from you again, my time will
pass the pleasanter ; for I am, if I know my own
heart. Most sincerely and affectionately yours.

MR. BERKELEY TO LADY SUFFOLK.

[This is the first of Mr. Berkeley's letters to Lady Suffolk.
They were married in the course of the next year.]
Shotover, Wednesday morning, June 19, 1734.
MADAM, It is impossible to be at ' Shotover,
and not think of writing to Lady Suffolk ; and

' Now the seat of Mr. Schutz, near Oxford ; but we have
lost the meaning of Mr. Berkeley's allusions. They probably
related to some of the events of Lady Suffolk's early mariaed

life

—1734— 71
though letters from hence were not always di
rected to a palace, I am not afraid of calling to
your remembrance the distress you suffered when
you corresponded most with this place, since
that very suffering was the very strongest proof
imaginable how little you deserved it.
We performed our journey hither with great
ease, only little Pope was very ill the whole day,
and compassion for him may pass for a reason
why I was so little entertained with a very lively
conversation which at some times would have
been very agreeable to me, as would the mis
fortunes which were very happily contrived for
the major-general {Dormer) during the whole
journey. Pope grew better at supper, and of
course very irregular, and laughed at me for the
care I pretended to take of him.
We shall set out this morning for * Rowsham,
where I hope to find something that will please
me, though I do not like the prospect I have of
staying there much longer than I intended. I
am heartily tired of the country already, and
long for an account of what is doing at and near
London. Is Mrs. Herbert to come soon into
waiting ? Is Lord Vem{broke) in better humour?
Have {Miss) Carteret and you ^ keyed it to
both your hearts' content ? But, above all, let

'^ Mr. Dormer's seat, about two miles from Woodstock.
' A phrase de societe, of which the precise meaning is now
lost.

72 —1734-
me know if you 'have 'a go'dB head and face
for that would be a great satisfaction to •
Yours, &c. *
• * G. B.

Ljy)Y SUFFOLK TO MR. BERKELEY.
[Written before she had received the preceding.]

June 20, 1734.
There was no company at the tea-table on
Tuesday but what most people hate to ' keep,
but for whom I have so particular a respect and
regard, that upon her approbation for every
action of my life, my ease and happiness has
and must always depend. Your bad memory
was not forgot in our long conversation ; and it
was agreed, that whoever could forget the pres-
byterian parson was neither to be trusted nor
relied upon ; that most certainly you forgot me
before you reached Brentford; and that you
have never thought at all of poor Mrs. ^Smith.
If I valued myself much upon the command
of my temper, I have been most terribly mor
tified. On Tuesday last, in the Commerce
Room, when Mr. Paget told me that there was

' She means herself.
^ No doubt Miss Jane Smith, governess to Prince William.
See vol, i. page 38.

— 1734— 73
a repfrt that t-otfti ^ Stair h^ killed the Duke
of Argyll in a duel, I behaved so very ill, that
it ought tg> hupble me for !*« pest ftf my life ;
but even tliis has not prevented my being truly
sensible of the greatest pleasure in hearing since
that the report was withoul'iBnyfoundatidlk If
I have nothing to amuse you from Kensington,
it is because you are dull and want a tast^ and
not that the place does not abundantly supply
both the instructive and entertaining ; and I
am positive that I have given you sufficient proof
that I neither want a pen nor penetration to do
both justice. I give you my word that I have
not written this over above * three times.

LADY SUFFOLK TO MR. BERKELEY.
Kensington, June 22, [1734].
If it was Shotover that put you in mind
of writing to me, I am very glad you stopped
there : I do not remember that I ever liked any
of the letters from that place better than that I

' See page 60.
4 Lady Suftblk's hand-writing was both bad and careless,
and she was often obliged to write her letters over a second
and even a third time. To this circumstance we owe almost
all the letters of hers which are in this collection.

74 —1734—
received last; nor do I think the satisfaction
was entirely owing to the difference of the direc
tion. I do believe you had more .compassion for
Pope than for the major-general {Dormer) : I de
sire his ingratitude may not prevent your future
care of him ; but 1 do not by any means insist
that you should carry it so far as to lose the
pleasure of the company or the country. By
what I know, and by what I have heard, it is
hardly possible to be tired of either. Mrs. Ho-
bart comes to-day: Mrs. Herbert has never
written to me since I came to Kensington.
The ' hero plays every day at tennis, and looks
dreadfully. Mrs. Carteret and I have not had
so much as a tea-box " key together since I saw
you. I have now satisfied your curiosity in every
particular but about the head and face : I think
the less that is said of either is the better ; they
are neither pleasant nor profitable to others nor
the owner. I am going to dine in the ^ square :
they go soon into Northamptonshire : they and
Lady *Catherlough dined on Thursday with the

' Probably Henry, ninth Earl of Pembroke, who is more
than once in this correspondence called the hero.
* See page 71.
' Probably Kensington-square.
* Margaret Cavendish, wife of Colonel John Fane, created,
in 1733, Baron Catherlough (or Carlow), who, in 1736, became
Earl of Westmoreland, See vol, i. page 174.

—1734- 75
Duchess of Dorset; but nothing seems changed
in respect of the men. The actions of women
are too inconsiderable to draw any consequences
from them : thus I know your pride and arro-
, gancy in power makes all you men reason ; but
I do not despair to see some of my sex vindi
cate us, and make a figure that may make some
of you tremble. Mrs. Herbert is just come : I
design her for one of these, and have now ten
thousand precepts to give her, which happily
releases you.

MR. BERKELEY TO LADY SUFFOLK.

Stowe, Sunday morning, [1734],
In vain I scratch my head and bite my nails ;
I cannot for my soul make any thing of the
presbyterian parson ; but am sure he is very
malicious, to affirm that for his sake I am not to
be trusted or relied on, when I profess I am at
this moment, and verily think I ever have been,
an utter stranger to him. As for poor Mrs.
Smith, pray assure her, the first time you break
fast with her alone, which I suppose will be
soon (for I take you two to be inseparable), that
I am so far from forgetting her, that she is
never out of my thoughts ; that there is nothing

7C _l7y4—
I so ardently wish as a more intimate acquaint
ance ; and that, as desirous as you seem of her
approbation, I have as much regard and respect
for her as you have, am much fonder of her, and
infinitely more sensible of her merits.
We set out yesterday, two coachfuls of us,
from Rowsham, with an intention only to dine
at Stowe; but here we still are, and are likely to
continue till Tuesday at least : it is enchanted
ground, and not in people's power to leave when
they please. Stowe is in great beauty, the master
of it in good health and excellent spirits, by
which the major-general {Dormer) gets a new
tormentor; not that his old one {Pope) was not
sufficient, who has really laughed himself fat at
poor Jemmy's expense, who in proportion hath
fretted himself lean. Charming as Stowe cer
tainly is, I own a partiality for Rowsham. One
advantage must be allowed it ; there is at the
bottom of a sloping hill in the garden, a most
delightful stream, which runs from thence di
rectly to Marble Hill, and is no small addition
even to the beauties of that place. I have no
more paper, not so much as for a cover.
Oxford bag did its duty extremely to my sa
tisfaction, but the surer direction is by Wood
stock bag.

—1734- 77

LADY SUFFOLK TO MR. BERKELEY.

Kensington, June 25, 1734.
Biting the nails and scratching the head
are two very ugly tricks : for fear you should
get such ill habits, I will not say another word
of the presbyterian parson, I have made your
compliments to my friend {Mrs. Smith) ; but I
am not sure that she approves this regular cor
respondence ; as she was always a much better,
so she was always a much stricter woman than
I am. By a letter I had yesterday from Mrs.
Herbert, I find her most, extremely indulgent to
me ; but she limits it to a very short time, that
of her coming into waiting. I perceive she has
very selfish views, and doubts not of success ;
for she plainly tells me that she has one charm
that is irresistible.
If you wish to be disenchanted and leave
Stowe, you are very unworthy of being there.
I hope you have visited the round temple, and
paid a due regard to the memory of Mr. Hamp
den. I forgive your partiality for Rowsham,
for the sake of the river, and upon condition
you give me a very particular description of it.
I have had twenty people with me since I sat
down to write ; but I have gained nothing for

78 —1734—
your benefit, only that the Princess Royal i is
expected every day, that she was adored in
Holland, and that she comes to make us all
happy. I wish you would take some pity upon your
fat and lean friends*: a change of their pre
sent humours is absolutely necessary for them
both. I cannot prescribe at this distance ; but
I should think you, that know their constitution,
and are upon the place, might find proper physic
for their distemper. If I had the same advan
tage I should not despair of success.
I was surprised at your ill-breeding, to send
a letter without an envelope.

MR. BERKELEY TO LADY SUFFOLK.
Rowsham, June 27.
We left Stowe on Tuesday, and I hope
we shall leave Rowsham on Sunday. One
is a most magnificent place, and the other a
very pretty one ; but at present I have no relish
for either grandeur or beauty so far from Lon
don, and think I really like nothing in the

• Mary, the Princess of Orange, eldest daughter of Geo. II.
arrived in London on Tuesday, July 2, 1 734.
' Dormer and Pope.

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country but a post-day. I could not fail paying
a due regard to Mr. Hampden's memory, for
I am sure nobody can be more sensible of what
England owes to him than I am ; but I hear
there is another busto of ' one of that family
expected, which, if I can judge right, ought to be
preferred infinitely before his : if those who pro
mised it do not keep their word, it is proposed
to make the ^ Venus of Medicis serve instead of
it, and what will your prude friend {Mrs. Smith)
say then,— she who can be so very easily scan
dalized at what happens at fifty miles' distance? I
am glad to hear Mrs. Herbert intends to be soon
at London ;. I can truly pity people who live in
the country ; I, who can scarcely bear it a fort
night, though in company with those who know
how to employ their time there so well, that
they have not yet been once reduced to play at
cards. Pope diverted us with translating Ho
race : I am sorry for your sake I can remember
but one couplet, which you shall have to make
you some amends for the stuff you have already
perused.
Our ancient kings (and sure those kings were wise)
Judged for themselves, and saw with their own eyes.
• Lady Sufiblk was the great-grand-daughter of John Hamp
den ; and Lord Cobham designed to put up her bust in the
Temple of Friendship at Stowe.
^ Rather an exaggerated compliment to a widow of near
fifty.

80 —1734-
LORD BATHURST TO MRS. HOWARD.

[Vol. i. p. 178.]

[Cirencester, July, 1734.]
Since you were, so good as to mention me
in your letter to Mr. Pope, I venture to send
this by way of postscript to his, I was in town
for two days about a month ago, but did not
dare to wait on you, lest you might think I
came to insult you upon your defeat in Norfolk.
I met Lord Hobart in St. James's Park, who
accosted me with his usual good-nature and
complaisance ; but as ladies' resentments are
generally more violent than men's, and as I
know you to be a zealous party-woman, I was
afraid of coming in your way till you had time
to cool. After Mr. Wodehouse is turned out,
and Mr. Morden brought in, by your righteous
determination of a House of Commons, I may
venture to come into your sight.
As to the question you put to Mr. Pope re
lating to me, I can give you the best answer.
My castle is not molested by your fair son, and
there is but one lady in the world that I desire
to see there, and I fear I never shall have that
satisfaction, though it is only to satisfy my cu
riosity whether she has any true taste or not,
having given some marks of it by her approba
tion of my works at Richkings, but no proofs of
it by her own at Twickenham,

—1734— 81
' Pope endeavours to find faults here, but can
not ; and instead of admiring (as he ought to
do) what is already executed, he is every day
drawing me a plan for some new building or
other, and then is violently angry that it is not
set up the next morning.
You do well to reprove him about his intem
perance ; for he makes himself sick every meal
at your most moderate and plain table in Eng
land. Yesterday I had a little piece of salmon
just caught out of the Severn, and a fresh pike
that was brought me from the other side of your
house out of the Thames. He ate as much as he
could of both, and insisted upon his modera
tion, because, he made his dinner upon one dish.

THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD TO MRS. HOWARD,
[VoLLp. 1.]
Isleworth, July 15, [1734.]
MADAM, You will be surprised at this letter;
but as I took it into my head that it might pos
sibly be of use to one that both you and I in
terest ourselves for, I would not omit it.

' Pope tells Swift (Dec. 19, 1734) that he paid a visit this
year to Lord Bathurst at Cirencester.
VOL. II. ^

82 —1734—
My ' hero is now entirely out of the question
for the place of master of the horse, and to
my certain knowledge the Duke of Richmond
will soon be declared. This will be the second
time that he will have been put by, what every
body has looked upon to be his right, for the
sake of two people of such infinite consequence
as Lord Godolphin and the Duke of Richmond.
And I will prophesy that this will not be the
last time of his being served so, if he takes this
patiently ; I should therefore think it would be
very right for him to renew his applications with
vigour where he had made them before, and
also to apply directly to the queen, to whom I
am told he has not yet mentioned it, and there
to insist upon it as his right. I know very well
this application will signify nothing as to the
place of master of the horse, which is as good
as given to the Duke of Richmond ; but the
effect I propose from it is, that his insisting
strongly will convince those who cannot love
but can fear, that he will resent it as strongly
when it is disposed of to another, and make
them think it necessary to satisfy him by some
thing else ; which they may easily do if they
please, by taking away the gold key from that

' Lord Pembroke. See p. 74.
« Charles, second Duke ; but his grace was not declared
master of the horse till January, 1735.

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cypher. Lord Godolphin », and continuing him
his pension, with which he will be as well satis
fied, and sleep on the court side. But this is
what my hero can never expect to obtain from
any motive but their fears, which will rise in
proportion to his insisting upon it before it is
given away, and to the resentment that he will
show afterwards.
You will make what use you please of these
thoughts of mine : you may either show them
him as mine, or hint them as your own, accord
ing as you approve of them, or think best as to
him. All I desire is, that you will not mention
me in this matter to any body but him.
I am persuaded you will not think that I
mean by this to exasperate him, in hope of get
ting him over to the opposition ; for in my mind
it would not be the way ; since I am convinced
that this is the only way, and even a likely way
of getting him to be groom of the stole: whereas
without this method they would go on to use
him so ill that we should be sure of him at last.
I can assure you it is only my value and friend-

^ Francis, second Earl of Godolphin, was made groom of the
stole on the accession of Geo. II., and held it till Jan. 1735,
when he was succeeded by Lord Pembroke, probably in conse
quence of Lord Chesterfield's advice, as it would seem that
the Duke of Richmond's appointment was delayed till Lord
Pembroke was satisfied.
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84 ^1734—
ship for him that makes me suggest these means
as the most likely to procure him what he would
like, and what, with regard to the world, con
sidering his rank and long services, he ought in
decency to have.
I am, with the utmost truth and respect.
Yours, &c. Chesterfield.
Pray prevail with him to speak to the * queen
* A direct contradiction of Walpole's statement, that Lord
Chesterfield was so mistaken as to believe that Mrs. Howard's
influence was greater than the queen's; upon which he has
built several ingenious fallacies. Archdeacon Coxe, who is
in general very accurate and candid, has, upon Walpole's
authority, attributed Lord Chesterfield's opposition to dis
appointment, and this disappointment to the influence of
Queen Caroline acting against that of Lady Suffolk, to whom
Chesterfield was supposed to have attached himself. The
archdeacon, after some instances of the queen's jealousy of
Lord Chesterfield's connexion with the favourite, gives the
following, which he evidently considers as final and conclusive.
" At another time Lord Chesterfield had requested the queen
" to speak to the king for some small favour; the queen pro-
" mised, but forgot it : a few days afterwards, recollecting
" her promise, she expressed regret at her forgetfiilness, and
" added, that she would certainly mention it that day. Ches-
" terfield replied, that her majesty need not give herself that
" trouble, for Lady Suffolk had spoken to the king. The
" queen made no reply; but on seeing the king, told him that
" she had long promised to mention a trifling request to his
" majesty, but it was needless, because Lord Chesterfield had
" just informed her that she had been anticipated by Lady

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herself, without which there is nothing to be
done; and to mention in that audience the

" Suflblk. The king, who always preserved great decorum
" with the queen, and was very unwilling to have it supposed
" that the favourite interfered, was extremely displeased \nth
" both Lord Chesterfield and his mistress ; the consequence
" was, that in a short time Lady Suffolk went to Bath for her
" health, to return no more to court : Chesterfield was dis-
" missed from his office, and never heard the reason till two
" years before his death ; when he was informed by the late
" Earl of Orford (Hor. Walpole) that his disgrace was owing
" to his having offended the queen by paying court to Lady
" Suffolk." — Now mark how easily all this is proved to be false :
Lord Chesterfield's intimacy with Mrs. Howard began early in
their lives, and when at its height did not prevent his obtaining
successively all the distinguished offices of the prince's family.
At the dawn of the new reign in June 1727, Lord Chester
field's intimacy with Mrs. Howard, and his favour with the
king, continued : he was made one of the lords of the bed
chamber, and appointed ambassador extraordinary to the
court of France. In May 1728 he had the garter j and next
day was made lord steward of the household : to this office was
soon after added that of ambassador to the Hague, which he
was allowed to hold together. He resided at the Hague
without having any other intercourse than the letters we have
just read, with Mrs. Howard, till 1732, when he came home
and opposed the minister's favourite scheme of the Excise, with
great violence ; for which, and not for any mysterious affair,
he was turned out, and never afterwards appeared at court
during that reign. Mrs. Howard (who did not become Countess
of Suffolk till 1731,) did not leave court till 1735. No one
acquainted with the characters of Lord Chesterfield and Mrs.
Howard could believe the story of liis rude and indecent reply
to the queen ; but the dates positively disprove it. Lord

86 —1734—
manner in which he was put by for Lord Go
dolphin, and his own acquiescence at that time.

DUCHESS OF QUEENSBERRY TO LADY SUFFOLK.
[Vol. i. p. 352 — An answer to a letter which does not appear.]
July 24, 1734.
I RECEIVED your letter, my dear, dear Lady
Suffolk, the day after we left Edinburgh ; not
having had an opportunity since till this mo
ment is the reason, and the only reason, that
I have not thanked you sooner. I love to hear
from you, I assure you ; but must needs hate
that part of your letter that tells me you are the
least unwell ; you, who cannot but know this
to be true, ought in conscience to have bragged
to me when it was in your power ; instead of
which you and that same Providence who de
lights in mixture more than I do, has taken care
to mingle my sweet cup with bitter : — though
through my whole life I have been used to such
draughts, they never went down well.

Chesterfield probably never saw the queen after Mrs. Howard
became a countess; and her retiring from court, instead of pre
ceding or accompanying Lord Chesterfield's disgrace, did not
take place for several years after; but thus history is and
must be written.

—1734— g7
On the road things are Often mislaid, or not
easy to be got at. Now what I miss at present is
my senses; for I had hke to have forgot to tell
you that your letter was sent after me to the
* Marquis of Tweedale's, where we were some
days. By this you may conceive it was possible
to receive yours, and, as I said before, not have
time to answer it ; if this is not plain, pray be
pleased to give grains of allowance : my senses
must be jumbled in some degree as well as my
person, and I assure you that is not a little, for
worse roads I never met with in all my travels :
to-morrow we have reason to expect worse ; for
we strike out of the high road, and cross the
country to Lord Gower's ^ there to stay, I be
lieve, a week or ten days. I have not the least
thoughts of Spa or Scarborough : — by the way,
we met that lord within a day's journey of
Lumly Castle ; ^ he looks sadly ; when he does
so, I am oft^ grieved for him.

' John, third Marquis of Tweedale. The seat alluded to
was probably Yester, about eighteen miles from Edinburgh.
^ Trentham, the seat of John, second Baron and first Earl
Gower. The duchess mother, who died in 1725, was aunt to
Lord Gower,
5 Lord Scarborough, though a most amiable, and in all that
regarded worldly concerns,Jr)rtunate man, seems to have been
liable to fits of mental depression, in one of which he put a
period to his existence in 1 739. In his portrait, in the Kitcat
collection, something of the sadness alluded to by the duchess
is visible. The melancholy termination of his honourable life

88 —1734—
I am very well really, though I do not look
at all pretty I confess, and so will you. Solomon
says that there is a time for all things ; so with
that I content myself: I only think looking-glass
an inconvenient part of furniture, and design
to run it down out of fashion ; but how self-
conceit will bear the change, I am not prophet
enough to discern. I know you love a letter,
and I think you love me; and as I have your
sign manual to write whatever comes upper
most, I am determined to sleep sound all night,
though I should write downright nonsense : it
is my duty to bestow some of it on Mrs. Her
bert; but as I have not time, I am in some
hopes that here is enough for both of you :
pray tell her the important news of my being
well, and in very good humour; and pray,
long to see me, for it is but gratitude. Lord
'Pera{broke) is a fool if he does not indulge his
joy — it is very seldom good to curb one's pre
vailing passion, — never that of joy, for it does
not often molest any one. I shall take it very
ill if Mrs. Herbert has the least return of her
fever. If the Princess of Orange is with child,
I suppose she will be brought to bed in Eng
land. My child is asleep, but much pleased ;
you remember her. I am sorry for yours * ; but
was as unaccountable as it was afflicting to a large circle of af
fectionate friends, and to the public at large, whose respect and
regard he deservedly enjoyed in a high degree.
* Miss Hobart.

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hope her eyes will be soon well again; and that
her brother is quite so. I never forget Mrs.
Carteret; you who know her, must then guess
how I think of her.
I have put myself in a great hurry to write,
and just now I am informed that the post does
not go hence again till Saturday; so I leave
this, however, for fear I should not have time
again, with my ^landlord, who is an extreme
good one : pray make use of his house when
you come this road in your way to make me
a visit when I am settled in Scotland. I wish I
could hear from you whilst at Trentham, for I am
impatient to know you are well, and not a little
so to see you so ; from thence we go straight
for London. I always designed to notify my
return, the uncertainty of whiclf hindered my
writing, otherwise you would have had nothing
to have reproached me with, except troubling
you too often. Adieu, my dear Lady Suffolk,
and good night ; I must to bed, in order to get
up again : most creatures are made for nothing
else, only they do not know it, and I do : one
thing morel was born for most certainly, because
I am that so perfectly and sincerely — I mean —
to be yours.

The duchess does not afford any clue to discover who her
landlord was.

90 -1734—
THE HON. G. BERKELEY TO A GENTLEMAN.

[This letter is preserved as giving the reasons which Lady
Suffolk's friends chose to allege for her journey to Bath,
, which was a preliminary to her retiring from coui-t.]
[Aug. 1734.]
SIR, Though I have nothing material to send
you, yet if you are of my mind, any letter will
be welcome in the country. You have, I sup
pose, seen in the papers that Lady Suffolk sets
out for Bath on Tuesday next ; this is true, and
has occasioned as much speculation in the fa
mily of Kensington as the removal of two or
three minor ministers would have done. I be
lieve the secret of this journey is, that she has a
mind to get out of her lodgings at Kensington,
which being at least three feet under ground,
are at this time of the year very damp and un
wholesome, especially to her ill health, not in
a very strong constitution ; besides showing she
will not be such a slave to the court as she has
been, having never been six weeks in the whole
absent from it in twenty years' service.
The inclosed epigram was sent me by the
penny-post ; though I have no guess at the per
son who wrote it, it seems to be a lady's per
formance, by the * spelling of one of the names.

' I am afraid'he means mis-spelling.

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as well as the whole turn of it. * Edgcombe sets
out very soon for Paris ; a visit to his son is the
pretence ; he is supposed to carry a good deal
of money with him. Yours, &c.

THE HON. GEORGE BERKELEY TO LORD
BOLINGBROKE.

[Bath, 1734.]
MY DEAR LORD,
Yours of the twelfth I did not receive
till the seventeenth. I presume it was detained
one post for the perusal of the ministers ; nor
can I blame them ; their fondness for reading
all your compositions, is doubtless the best
proof that can be given of their good taste in
polite reading. I hope, by this time at least,
you have received a letter I sent you by the
same direction that I do this, to my house in
Stratton-street, with orders to be sent with Lady
B.'s newspapers, &c. : it came to the Bath the
post after you went away, franked with the
name of Windham.
I have little news to send you from hence ;

Richard, created in 1 742 Lord Mount Edgcombe.

92 —1734—
our storms at the court here seem to be in
a fair way of pacification since Churchill's
departure; if our ministers would take the
hint and recall Horace (Walpole), perhaps the
storms in Europe might subside. Our com
pany begins, thank God, to decrease. Bathurst
is impatiently expected every day. If he comes
I will recommend the ^lady mentioned in yours
to him, as he seems to be a much younger man
than myself, and, consequently, much fitter for
her purpose. I hope to have the honour of
seeing you at Cranford in about ten days time.
I am glad to hear Lord Berkeley is not worse,
and much obliged to Mr. Chetwynd for his
¦wine, and more for his letter.
No man can possibly have a greater honour
for your lordship than, my lord,
Yours, &c.
G. Berkeley.

1 Probably Lady Suffolk. Mr. Berkeley did not choose, as
yet, to make Lord Bolingbroke his confidant on this point.

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DUCHESS OF QUEENSBERRY TO THE HON. MRS.
HERBERT.

[Vol. i. p, 352.]
[As this letter was intended for Lady Suffolk as well as Mrs.
Herbert, it is thought proper to insert it.]

Spa, Aug. 4, N, S, 1734.
As soon as you see my hand-writing, my
dear Mrs. Herbert will conclude that this is
to give you an account how the waters agree
with your humble servant : it is very true that
we have left England long enough to have drank
them a week, but we have loitered on the roadj
and as there hath been so much rain it is no
great loss, for the waters are not good in wet
weather. When we came to Calais, though we
had the finest passage that could have been
wished for, I was too sick to write, but I be
lieved I should have tried, if Lady Sophia {Kep-
pel) had not written to some of her friends, who
were to notify our welfare to you.
At Lisle we staid one whole day to show
our ladies a very fine town, and the fortifica
tions, which to be sure they understood per
fectly : at night we saw a play, ill enough
acted. From thence we went the next day
through to Brussels. We had done better to
have lain at Ghent, which is an extraordinary

94 —1734—
fine town : as we did not, we had the pleasure
to be nineteen hours on the road without ever
stopping, except to change horses, during which
time we had just leisure enough to eat two cold
black chickens, which from extreme hunger
we found delicious. From Lisle to Brussels
it is not much farther than from London to
Ambresbury ; but the posts are ill served, and
the postilions stupid obstinate posts, by which
means we got not into Brussels till between
two and three in the morning. I thought
of nothing but bed, but no bed was ready.
The people of the house were all in their first
sleep, but were quite awake and alive by the
time we could crawl out of our voitures, and
in less time than I have been writing these
lines, they set before us a most excellent good
repast: this enlivened us to that degree that
we were mighty good company, and could not
part till five in the morning, when to be sure
we went drunk to bed. You will allow it was
highly proper to rest the next day ; when that
appeared, we perceived the remains of a great
deal of finery, and were told it was occasioned
by a jubilee or^estival, which is only held there
once in fifty years, on account of some miracle,
which is not necessary to explain to you, though
I had it at my fingers' end, which, by the by,
is not the case. This show was to be again
the day se'nnight we came to Brussels ; so we

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were mighty prudent and shilly shally whether
to stay or go, and I believe had not remained,
but for the sake of seeing the French minister,
who was vastly civil to us two years ago ; in
short, stay we did.
We went to the play ; to see the archduchess
at dinner; were ill-used at court, and so, as
usual', retired into the country, to Antwerp,
which is but half a day's journey : there we
saw pictures, something better than I can draw ;
the Jesuits' College, where there are many mag
nificent things ; an old man of near ninety,
who appears much younger than ever I was,
and a great deal younger than my brother
is. I need not now tell you that on the road
there is the finest things my eyes ever yet be
held; for I am so delighted with that and every
acre of land about Brussels, and from thence
quite to Liege, that when we meet, you must
give me leave to talk eternally on that subject.
The sight we staid for was well worth seeing ;
nobody can well describe it, who cannot write
a romance : I could never read one ; so I doubt
you will not edify by my description, unless
your imagination can help me out. Let me show
you whole streets that appeared like a most
magnificent garden ; some of the houses all co-

' The duchess probably alludes to her own retreat to Ames-
bury, on her quarrel with George II.

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vered with moss from top to bottom, adorned
wilii flowers, festoons, mosaic ornaments of gold
and silver: on others moss, on which were
hung fine pictures, in other places fine tapestry;
the tops of all the houses every where covered
with green, where the other ornaments were
not; triumphal arches, arcades, fountains, all
these adorned by paintings ; all sorts of greens
and flowers, and in some places cascades : I
have neither time or wit to draw this fine pic
ture as it deserves. The duke hurries me to
supper ; yet I must proceed to try to make you
conceive the Fish-market, which was the most
extraordinary thing I ever saw ; that was en
tirely decked with moss and gilding. Imagine a
great place, as it were, wainscotted in pannels,
in which were drawings of figures, trees, land
scapes, as big as the life ; these done in two
colours, which, too, were different coloured
moss; the great church, the most magnificent
thing you ever saw, the altar particularly, on
which was a great quantity of wrought plate
and cloth of gold. Here I ought to be a good
architect. Mr. Herbert can teach you to ima
gine pillars and arches, architraves, friezes and
cornices, in just proportion; extreme fine figures
as big as the life in silver, dressed in gold (I
mean metal); very fine pictures; exceeding fine
tapestry and carpets in their proper places ; the
pillars of the church twisted round with green

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and gold, on which were flowers ; between the
pillars hung rich festoons of green and gold to
represent fruit, leaves, and flowers ; at the bot
tom large orange-trees; on them birds of all sorts
well imitated, the tubs gilt and painted green ;
the finest and the prettiest lamps I ever saw,
between the pillars (to light the church), hung
with chains : — it is shocking you could not see
it ! A vast deal of fine carving and gilding : — I
hate myself that I cannot help you to imagine it a
little. The procession is easier to conceive, though
that was vastly magnificent. Half the town, I
believe, have ruined themselves by dressing out
themselves and children to have the honour to
represent kings, princes, and princesses, who
had a thousand years ago some hand in this
miracle. They walked or rode on horseback,
two and two, all magnificently adorned; Cupids
and the Muses kept them company — for what
reason, I know not, unless to make the sight
prettier, which it certainly did. We had fine
triumphal cars, intermixed, and drawn by eight
horses each ; I expect you to range them where
they ought to be, but I must tell you that one
set were exactly spotted like leopards, you
cannot conceive how beautiful : each of these
cars held fifteen children ; one was filled by the
Virtues, and another perhaps by Vices ; another
by the United Provinces, and others by the
Muses; the other by I. know not what. After
vol. II. H

98 —1734—
these came monks of different orders, some
blaok, some brown, singing all the way; and
then the host, under a fine canopy ; and after
all a vast mob, composed of all the nations on
earth, and in divers dresses, which made mine
not in the least remarkable, though it was, is,
and shall be, just the same my Lord Vem{broke)
laughed at so immoderately*.
The day I had the good manners to leave
you in my house, I hope you did not think
me impolite ; I assure you it was only a mark
of tenderness : I hated to take leave, and
was therefore glad of any pretence to run
away from you. I must tell you one thing
more, though you and I ought to wish I had
finished this volume. At Brussels Lady Sophia
and 'Miss Jenny were both dressed out as ladies
think they ought to be, viz. French heads and
mantuas ; I, as I think I ought to be: the French
minister's wife, who is a mighty pretty woman,
and really a mighty pretty sort of woman, in
quired of Lady Sophia what dress people in
England appeared with at court; were they
dressed as Lady Sophia? — No. As Miss
Leveson? — No, As I was dressed? and they

" We have seen (vol. i. p, 353) that the duchess adhered to
this resolution, and was laughed at for it by Lord Pembroke's
grand-children. ' The Honourable Jane Leveson Gower : see page C8,

—1734- 99
*
had the barbarity still to answer truly. No.
After this I hope no stupid English people will
ever pretend to find fault with my dress : upon
my honour this is fact ; it is true she was bred up
in a convent, and hath seen little of the world,
but that rather makes for me ; every body's eye
would strike them that my dress was exactly
according to form, if their ears had not been
(by some ill accident or other) used to hear it
unjustly condemned.
I have lost my supper to write a great deal
unintelligibly : forgive me, it is the last long
letter I shall trouble you with while I drink
the waters. I have a vast deal more to say
to you, if I were not to begin to-morrow ; in
order to which I must instantly to bed, or I
shall not be able to rise to-morrow at five,
which I fully purpose. If you are within reach
of my Lady Suffolk, pray communicate this to
her; for I am in a mahner bound to give her
some account of the fine things at Brussels,
having very impertinently said enough to raise
her curiosity, without the least endeavouring to
siatisfy it : send it her if you are not in waiting;
she will do the same for you if I go on with my
travels, in which there has happened incidents
which ought not to be omitted. She will have
the next, if my memory holds out. I am quite
tired ; have been interrupted ten times ; have
written nonsense, I doubt ; I know I have written
H 2

100 —1734—
ill, and have spelled ill : if I had been with you
I should have looked ill, and perhaps not have
talked plainer than 1 have written ; so it is all
one ; as you have often endured me then, I
may hope you will now. Pray write to me, and
believe me that I am in one thing perfect, viz.
perfectly and sincerely your friend and humble
servant. Lady Sophia would have written if I had not ;
she sends her compliments, and Lady Bateman
orders me to say a vast deal from her. Lord
Cornbury and the duke are both your humble
servants. I have drank three glasses of the
waters this morning. C. Q.
She has been called *sir upon the road above
twenty times. Yours, &c. * Cornbury.

¦• He means that the duchess's dress occasioned her being
mistaken for a gentleman.
» Henry, Lord Cornbury, the duchess's brother, great
grandson of Lord Chancellor Clarendon. This was the Lord
Cornbury whom Pope celebrates :-^
" Would you be blest ? despise low joys, low gains ;
Disdain whatever Cornbury disdains;
Be virtuous, and be happy for your pains !"
Lord Cornbury was born in 1710, and died, before his fath«r.

-^1734— 101

WILLIAM PULTENEY, ESQ. TO THE HON.
GEORGE BERKELEY.

[Vol. i. p. 200.]
Newmarket, Sept. 21, 17,34.

DEAR GEORGE,

I HAVE received your letter,
for which I ought to have thanked you sooner;
but as Tully said that he was never less alone
than when alone ; so I, supported by so great
an authority, may venture on an Irishism too,
and assure you that I never have more business
than when I have nothing to do ; th..t is, I al
ways find many things to amuse me ; and you
know that I can be ten times more eager and
intent upon trifles, than ever I am about matters
of greater importance. Should the post-ofiice
open my letter, and read this frank confession
from a man that has the appearance of so bustling
a patriot, what would they say? They would
wish me at the devil, for having got the better
of my indolence so long, and given them and
some of their friends so much trouble for no
thing.

in 1753. He left a comedy, called " The Mistakes," which
Horace Walpole printed, with an encomiastic preface.

102 —1734— .
I think I shall certainly meet you at the Bath,
for, to tell you the truth, I am very much out
of order at this present writing. I have made,
what I never did in my life before, a great deal
of bloody water, which would have frightened
me more than it has, if a violent vomiting and
sickness at stomach had not convinced me that
it could be nothing but a fit of the gravel; how
ever, it has caused a cessation of arms between
me and the partridges for two days, but on
Monday I hope to renew the war again.
To be sure you will stay some time at Mr.
Herbert's ^ in your way to Bath. I wish I could
be there with you. Pray let the lady of the
house know I would certainly write to High
clere, if I could find so safe a conveyance for
my letters as a conie cart ; by this vehicle I
plude Lord '^ Lovel's sagacity, and escape his in
tuition, when I write to Mrs. Pulteney, for he
can never suppose any man such a John Trot,
as to correspond that way with his wife. If
you see Lady S., pray make my comph ments to
her. Probably you will all meet a-t Mrs. Her
bert's, and carry both of them to the Bath with
you. I wish you a great deal of health, a great
deal of diversion, good luck at whist, and that

At Highclere. ^ Sec page C4.

—1734— 103
Mr. Humphreys may pay you your money ; and
im. Dear George, &c. W. P.

LADY HERVEY TO LADY SUFFOLK.
[Vol. i.p. 181.]
St. James's, Sept, the 23d, 1734.
But that I fear it might sound equally absurd
to make an excuse for denying myself a pleasure,
or the giving you an unnecessary trouble, I
could give you sundry and excellent reasons for
not having sooner made use of the liberty dear
Lady Suffolk's good nature could not refuse to
my request. I will not plead stupidity, because
I should condemn myself by that ; not for my
not writing before, but for my writing now;
and as the conversing with you any way is a
pleasure I cannot give up, I will not give you
hopes of getting rid of this correspondence, by
flattering you that I forbear writing whenever
I find myself extremely dull ; , on the contrary.

^ A person who, it seems, lost money both to Mr. Pulteney
and Mr. Berkeley, and was not so prompt to pay as he ought
to have been.

104 _1734—
it is then I generally have recourse to you as to
the best anti-stupiditas I know. When I find
myself far gone, I presently apply to you, and if
that has not the effect immediately, I conclude
my case is desperate. To say the truth, I
stand at present in great need of your assist
ance, and beg therefore you will be expeditious
in sending me my remedy. Pray do not let
there be any bitters nor acids in it, for neither
of them agree with me ; sweetness and emollients
are what sit best on my stomach.
I believe the Bath is a mere hospital at pre
sent. As I am very curious in the nature and
process of all diseases, and like the theory, though
not the practice of physic, I should be very much
obliged • to you, if you would give me some
account of those invalids who are most distem
pered, with the observations you have made on
the nature and symptoms of their several ma
ladies, and what medicines you think would
prove efiicacious to those who are absolutely
incurable. There is a poor lady* that went
there a little while ago, who, I fear, is of the
last class. She abounds with peccant humours,
and has a complication of distempers, for she
has frequently had ruptures, is subject to inflam
mations, false conceptions, to diseases of the

' Ladv Bristol.

—1734— 105
tongue, and is hardly ever free from a fistula la-
chrymahs ; indeed I beheve there is no hopes
of her ever being better, and in my opinion the
best things that can be given her are repeated
quieting draughts.
Pray let me know if the waters have had any
effect on a certain great man ^, who has a con
stant weight and heaviness in his head, attended
with a difficulty of utterance, and an inability
of speaking to be understood, that has very much
the appearance of a paralytic disorder. He has
Hwo physicians, but I believe they do not consult
together ; the one allows him only light food,
well sweetened, the other, I am told, indulges
him \i\\!s\ flesh. Pray which of these regimens
does he most incline to ?
I am sorry our poor little friend * was forced

* This ironical description is probably meant for Mr. Pul
teney, who, though not at this moment at Bath, was on his
way thither.
^ Lady . Hervey, who all through this letter enlivens her
satire by the use of medical terms, means probably _/ejwa&
physicians: the first is perhaps Mrs. Pulteney; but we have
no means of guessing the name of the fair doctor who indulged
the carnal appetite of her patient.
* Lady Hervey alludes here to Mr. Pope and Martha Blount,
who were now at Bath, where Miss Blount (who was suspected
of being secretly married to him) subjected, by her pride and
ill-humour, him and herself to some mortifications. Lady Her
vey's medical allegory is witty and just.

106 —1734—
to go to the Bath for so unpleasant a distemper ;
for I am informed it was to get rid of some
proud flesh that is grown to his side, and makes
him extremely uneasy. It is thought it will
prove a mortification; but I am satisfied if all
the practitioners of the place he is in can ad
minister any ease to him, he will be sure of it,
for he always loved applying himself to all the
quacks he could meet with; and when he was
in perfect health, was always fancying or feign
ing himself ill, often changed his physician, and
frequently would have three or four at a time ;
but they all found him out, and the moment
they felt his pulse, declared him only the ma-
lade imaginaire. I believe, though, his present
disease has more reality in it ; but I dare say he
now does very like a lady of our acquaintance,
and complains of every distemper but that which
he really has.
If you complain of the length of my letter I
shall not be surprised ; there is so much of it,
that I think you cannot but chide or thank me
for it soon ; so that one way or other it must
answer the end I propose it, which is, to procure
me a letter from you, and to convince you that,
absent or present, I think my time best employed
when I am giving you any proof of my being,
&c. M. Hervey.

—1734— 107
DUCHESS OF QUEENSBERRY TO LADY
SUFFOLK.
[Vol. i. p. 352. An answer to a letter which does not appear.]
Ambresbury, Sept. 28, 1734,
I THANK you mightily for your letter; but
why am I never to have an entire satisfaction ?
The bad news of your health would not allow
it me this time ; when you write next, I hope to
find your letter more valuable. My dear Lady
Suffolk, I had not forgot you, or ever can whilst
I remember myself, for thereby hangs a tale —
nay, many, which are seldom if ever out of my
mind. It was purely by accident that I heard you
were at Bath. When I saw you I thought
you mighty well, and' never heard you were
otherwise ; if I had, I should certainly have in
quired, and I do not remember you gave me
any encouragement to write to you. I wish I
could come to Bath, for more reasons than one ;
but I cannot. Pray tell Mrs. Blount that one
of my pleasures would be to make her break her
abominable resolution, for every body visits
there. Pray tell Mr. Pope we were mightily
disappointed to find his * name when we came
' He had called at Amesbury in his way to Bath.

108 —1734—
here. It is in his power to undo that mortifi
cation, if he call here when he leaves Bath. To
this, I suppose, he will return no answer ; for
the last letter I sent to that place was on the
same errand, and the person said nothing to my
request, though they certainly have a kindness
for me, and must be well assured how very wel
come they would be.
I think it my duty to tell you that I am
very well, considering all things. The weather,
I suppose you know, for this last week, has been
as bad as any lazy person could wish ; this has
reduced me to pass my time in a very unhealthy
manner, viz. breakfast; drawing from that till
dinner ; and the moment that is over, to draw
ing again as long as light lasts ; the rest of the
evening either writing or reading, which distracts
Mrs  extremely, who dotes on cards. My
brother'^ almost quarrelled with me for not
sending you his best respects ; I do it now, and
mine pay every where to whom I am indebted.
I cannot leave off till I have told you some
very strange things. Know then that for this
four or five years last past we had set our
hearts on a certain hill that I am sure you
have heard me mention ; and now not only of
that, but of the whole estate, we are in pos
session, and as yet I have not felt delighted,
* Lord Cornbury.

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only mighty well satisfied : is not this astonish
ing ? I often want poor Mr. Gay, and on this
occasion extremely. Nothing evaporates sooner
than joy untold, or even told, unless to one so
entirely in your interest as he was, who bore at
least an equal share in every satisfaction or dis
satisfaction which attended us. I am not in the
spleen, though I write thus ; on the contrary,
it is a sort of pleasure to think over his good
qualities : his loss was really great, but it is a
satisfaction to have once known so good a man.
As you were as much his friend as I, it is need
less to ask your pardon for dwelling so long on
this subject ^.
Adieu, my 3.{ear) d{ear) L. S. ; if any words
could express it, I would tell you how very sin
cerely and affectionately I am Yours.
When the weather is fair I ride a great deal ;
when bad, I sit still, and endeavour to paint
sunshine. This, that you may not think me
incorrigibly lazy.

' Poor Gay was now dead near two years, and it is gratify
ing to find the tenderness of the duchess showing itself so
amiably.

110 —1734—
DUCHESS OF QUEENSBERRY AND LORD CORN
BURY TO LADY SUFFOLK. Oct. 1734.
MY DEAR LADY SUFFOLK,
I THINK you are prodigiously good to
me, and I really believe you would be still
better, were it in your power. It is teasing to
insist on impossibilities, yet I cannot help it,
my pen will form these words — I wish you
would come. As you cannot doubt it, I ought
not to assure you I am glad the waters agree
with you, and that you are better ; but it is the
overflowings of my heart, and I appeal to your
philosophy, whether any thing can contain more
than it can. I am sorry it should ever be tried,
except in cases where the sweets of it are to be
found ; such I believe there are, though not till
having suffered a good deal.
I did not doubt you would be shocked to hear
of poor »Lady Winchelsea's death. I never heard
her but well spoken of, and liked her mightily.
I knew her not enough, or lived with her so, as
to miss her in the world. , If T had I might have
thought otherwise ; but as it is, I differ from your
opinion, that the reflections on her are melan
choly — to die so young and so very happy ; con-
' Lady Fanny Fielding, whose husband. Lord Finch, had
now become Earl of Winchelsea: see vol. i. page 298. She
left an only daughter.

—1734— 111
sider what that is : — why, only, not to outlive
youth and happiness ; and who would wish to do
so ? As for Lord Winchelsea, one should na
turally feel much for him, if one had not often
seen how little such losses dwell on the heart
of that fine creature, man : there is not one of
them whom Providence could not easily repay
by gratifying their ambition, or by throwing an
orange wench in their way at fourscore. Had
her case been his, I had pitied her much more.
But I will not write a word more on what is,
or ought to be, a melancholy subject, and give
me leave to charge you not to think of such.
I hear Mr. Herbert is now at Bath ; it would
be better for your health to follow my method
when we first went there, viz. to whip his legs,
if he does not sing recitative very readily, for
he can in great perfection. But what a reflection
is here for me ; he there, and ^she not here, who
promised me to come if possible; her clog away,
and she neither here nor heard of. Nobody will
come near me, consequently nobody cares for
me, and yet you are unreasonable enough to
expect me to enjoy new possessions where we
cannot plant a tree this twelvemonth. The
house is not haunted ; I should say, the castle
not enchanted ; though if it be, the dread Corn
bury is the giant; and surely your little poet «
could behave himself as magnanimously as
. ^ Pope. ® Mrs. Herbert.

112 —1734—
David. My brother liked mightily to be re
membered by you ; he says he has a better
opinion of himself for your having any regard
for him ; his sister says the same ; and it is but
natural for both of us to have a much better
opinion of you. Adieu, my dear, dear Lady
Suffolk ; though I have written a longer letter
than is proper for a water-drinker to read at one
time, yet I am Most sincerely yours, K. Q.
Oct. the — , Saturday. I do not know the
day of the month.
I wish your ladyship would come and keep
her in order, for you are the only person who
can ; and she would really be very well, and
very happy, if you would put her in mind to
be so. Cornbury.
P. S. The house (which, besides the parties
here concerned, * are the duke and Mr.
Leveson) desire our compliments to Mr. Bart-
ley, and Mr, Pope, and Mrs. Blount.
Memorandum — Nobody here is acquainted
with Mrs. Blount, except myself, whom she will
not be acquainted with. K, Q.
* Erratum— Read for are — consists of

-1734— 113
LADY HERVEY TO LADY SUFFOLK.
fVol. i. p. 181.]
St. James's, Oct the 1 9th, 1734.
My eyes are so weak, that if my inclination
was not very strong, I should not attempt thank
ing you this way for the pleasure your letter
gave me. How great it was I leave you to
judge, when I tell you there was in it so agree
able a mixture of prudence, wit, good nature,
observation, good sense, and civility, that I saw
' H, Suffolk' at the end of every sentence in
as plain characters as at the end of the letter,
I conclude you know I have been ill, or at
least do me the justice to believe that either
my letter or myself must have miscarried, since
you have not heard from me ; which of the two
is the most likely to have happened, I leave
you to guess, who, I believe, are seldom mis
taken in your conjectures. I hope soon to have
the pleasure of seeing you, and that I shall be
more able to tell, than I am at present to write,
how very truly I am, &c.
M. Hervey.

VOL, II,

114 —1734—
LORD CHESTERFIELD TO LADY SUFFOLK.
[Vol. i. p. 1 : vol ii. p. 84.]
 •
Bath, Nov, 2, 1734.
MADAM, A GENERAL histoiy of the Bath
since you left it, together with the particular
memoirs of i Amoretto's life and conversation,
are matters of too great importance to want any
introduction. Therefore, without further pre
amble, I send you the very minutes, just as I
have them down to help my own memory ; the
variety of events, and the time necessary to ob
serve them, not having yet allowed me the
leisure to put theai in that style and order in
which I propose they shall hereafter appear in
public. Oct. 27. — Little company appeared at the
pump ; those that were there drank the waters
of affliction for the departure of Lady Suffolk
and Mrs. Blount. What was said of them both
I need not tell you ; for it was so obvious to
those that said it, that it cannot be less so to
those that deserve it. Amoretto went upon
Lansdowne to evaporate his grief for the loss of
his ^ Parthenissa, in memory of whom (and the
1 The Hon. Robert Sawyer Herbert. " Patty Blount.

—1734— 115
wind being very cold into the bargain) he tied
his handkerchief over his hat, and looked very
sadly. In the evening the usual tea-table met at
Lyndsey's, the 'two principal persons excepted ;
who, it was hoped, were then got safe to New
berry, Amoretto's main action was at our
table; but, episodically, he took pieces of bread
and butter, and cups of tea, at about ten others.
He laughed his way through the girls out of
the long room into the little one, where he
''tallied till he swore, and swore till he went
home, and probably some. time afterwards.
The Countess of ^Burlington, in the absence
of her royal highness, held a circle at Hayes's,
where she lost a favourite snuff-box, but un
fortunately kept her temper.
Oct. 28, — Breakfast was at Lady Anne's,
where Amoretto was with difficulty prevailed
upon to eat and drink as much as he had a mind
to. At night he was observed to be pleasant
with the girls, and with less restraint than usual,
which made some people surmise that he com-

3 Lady Suffolk and Patty Blount.
4 Played at cards.
' Lady Dorothy Savile, daughter and co-heir of the last
Marquis of Halifax, and wife of the last Lord Burlington.
Lord Chesterfield hints at the ostentation of her ladyship.
I2

116 —1734—
forted himself for the loss of Lady Suffolk and
Parthenissa, by the liberty and impunity their
absence gave him.
Oct. 29.— Amoretto breakfasted incognito,
but appeared at the ball in the evening, where
he distinguished himself by his bon mots. He was
particularly pleased to compare the two Miss
Towardins, who are very short and were a
dancing, to a couple of totums set a spinning.
The justness and liveliness of this image struck
Mr. Marriott to such a degree, that he begged
leave of the author to put it off for his own,
which was granted him. He declared after-
wards, to several people, that Mr. Herbert beat
the whole world at similes.
Oct. 30. — Being his majesty's birthday, little
company appeared in the morning, all being re
solved to look well at night. Mr. Herbert
dined at Mrs. Walters's with young Mr. e Bar
nard, whom he rallied to death. ^ Nash gave a
ball at Lyndsey's, where Mrs. Tate appeared
for the first time, and was noticed by Mr. Her
bert; he wore his gold laced clothes on the
occasion, and looked so fine, that, standing by
chance in the middle of the dancers, he was

* This gentleman was, at this period, remarkable for some
Jove affair, the particulars of which have not reached us,
' Beau Nash, master of the ceremonies at Bath.

—1734— 117
taken by many at a distance for a gilt "garland.
He concluded his evening, as usual, with basset
and blasphemy.
Oct. 31. — Amoretto breakfasted at Lady
Anne's, where, being now more easy and fa
miliar, he called for a half-peck loaf and a
pound of butter — ^let off a great many ideas,
and, had he had the same inclination to have let
any thing else, would doubtless have done it.
The Countess of Burlington bespoke the
play, as you may see by the inclosed original
bill ; the audience consisted of seventeen souls,
of whom I made one.
Nov. 1 . — Amoretto took a vomit in the morn
ing, and then with a clear and excellent stomach
dined with me, and went to the ball at night,
where Mrs. Hamilton chiefly engrossed him.
Mrs. Jones gave Sir Humphrey ^Monoux pain
with Mr. Browne, which gave Sir Humphrey
the tooth-ache, but Mr. Jones has since made
up matters between them.

' The dancing around a gilt garland would be utterly for
gotten, if some remains of the custom were not preserved by
the chimney-sweepers on May-day.
° The fourth baronet, member in the former parliament for
Tavistock, and lately elected for Stockbridge. His attach-
:ment to Mrs. Jones seems to have been very constant; for we
find that Sir Humphrey was, in 1742, married to Mrs. Jones.
the widow of Mr. Jones, of Waltham Abbey.

118 _i734—
Nov. 2.— Circular letters were received here
from Miss Secretary Russel, notifying the safe
arrival at London with many interesting parti
culars, and with gi'acious assurances of the con
tinuance of a firm and sincere friendship. It
would be as hard to say who received the
strongest assurances, as it would be to determine
who credited them the worst.
Mrs. Hamilton bespoke the play at night,
which we all interested ourselves so much to
fill, that there were as many people turned back
as let in : it was so hot that the Countess of
' Burlington could not stay it out.
You now see, by this week's journal, how
much you have lost by leaving the Bath so soon ;
at least I can assure you we feel what we lost
by your leaving it before us. We are all dis
jointed, and so weary, that I have prevailed with
my brother and Charles Stanhope to start from
hence with me on Tuesday se'nnight, which will
just complete the two months I was ordered to
stay. We set Mr. Herbert down at Highclere
in our way. This day fortnight I hope to have
the pleasure of finding you at St. James*s, much
the better for the Bath ; where, over a hot roll
with Mrs. Blount, I propose giving you the next
week's journal by word of mouth.

¦ Offended that her patronage had failed, while Mrs, Ha
milton's had succeeded.

—1734— 119
After having troubled you so long already, it
is only in compliance to the form of letters that
I add so unnecessary and so known a truth, as
the assurance of the respect and attachment
with which I am. Madam, yours, &c. Chesterfield.

THE DUKE OF ARGYLL AND GREENWICH TO
LADY SUFFOLK, UPON HER RETIRING FROM
COURT.

[This note is worth preserving, for its mere insignificance.
John, called the great Duke of Argyll, was the most in
timate friend and powerful supporter of Mrs. Howard at
court, and had even distinguished himself by a zeal in her
cause which exceeded decency. (Vol. i.p. 42.) We may judge,
however, by the following cold, dry, and heartless answer to
his disgraced friend, of the sincerity and gallantry of his
former knight-errantry. In truth when we impartially,
and without prejudice, consider the history of the times, we
find reason to suspect that this great duke was but a petty
intriguer, a greedy courtier, and a factious patriot.]

Adderbury, Nov. 17, 1734.
MADAM, I HAVE received the honour of
your letter, and I beUeve you do me the justice
to think I am heartily concerned for what you
tell me, though what I have seen made it not

120 —1734-

greatly surprise me. The duchess sends you
her best compliments, and I am.
Yours, &c.
Argyll and Greenwich,

LORD BATHURST TO LADY SUFFOLK.

[Of the occasion of Lady Suffolk's retreat, Lady Betty Ger
main gives Dean Swift the following account. (Letter of the
13th Feb. 1735.) " The countess has quitted the court; be-
" cause, after along illness at Bath, she did not meet with a
" reception tliat she liked j though her mistress (Queen Caro-
" line) appeared excessively concerned, and expressed great
" uneasiness at parting with her; and my opinion is, that not
'' only her master and mistress, but her very- enemies, will
" have reason to repent the part they have acted by her."
Walpole, in his Reminiscences, also represents the queen as
unwilling to part with Lady Suffolk, for the reason already
mentioned ; namely, that however jealous of Lady Suffolk,
she latterly dreaded the king's forming a new attachment to
a younger rival, and had prevented Lady Suffolk's leaving
court as early as she had wished to do. Walpole adds, that
the king complained very warmly of this. " I don't know,"
said his majesty, " why you will not let me part with an old
deaf woman, of whom I am weary." Walpole quotes this
anecdote to prove that the king's affection for Lady S. was
not plalonic. Now, if this were the whole proof, it certainly
would be very scanty ; and it may well be doubted whether
Walpole reports the king's words accurately ; for the person
whom lie is represented as calling an old woman, was ten
years younger than his majesty, or the queen herself; and,

—1734— - 1*2 1
as to the deafness, it was a defect which she had had from
early life.
Lord Bathurst'9 letter is amiable, and in a very different
style from the great duke's — he treats the event itself
lightly and in perfect taste, while he expresses his regard to
the exiled favourite with a good humoured sincerity.]

From the Peak of Derbyshire, 26th Nov. |[1734.]
MADAM, I DID not give credit to what I saw
in the newspapers till I had it confirmed under
the hand of a friend of ours ; he writes me word,
at the same time, that you expected a letter
from me. I take for granted it ought to be a
letter of condolence, for it is a sad thing, with
out doubt, to be removed from the sunshine of
the court to the melancholy shades of privacy
and retirement, especially to those who have
made an ill use of favour, and have employed it
only to gratify their own private resentments : I
do not know that has been altogether your case.
But what good have you done to any body?
Believe me there are but very few who will take
the will for the deed. Some few odd-headed
simpletons may have that way of thinking, but
all the beau-monde, that used to crowd about
your toilets, will avoid you as if you had got the
plague ; and to be reduced to live within the
circle of one's friends, would be to most people
a most dismal retreat. I am much of opinion

122 —1734^
that a certain ^ great man, who has now by far
the greatest levees of any subject in England,
would find it difficult, after laying down his
post, to make up a party at quadrille, if he re
solved to play only with' three personal friends.
Now, to comfort you, madam, I dare answer
for it you will be able to do something more ;
and, in my opinion, there must be some satis
faction in discovering who were friends to one's
person, and who to one's fortune, which you
could never have found out without this change.
Perhaps you will not beheve it, but it is literally
true, that the sun shines, even here where I am,
above one hundred miles from London ; and
that there are men and women walking upon
two legs, just as they do about St. James's, only
they seem to stand steadier upon them : they
can talk, too, only it is in a different dialect, and
for my part I like it better. A great king, who
happened to be a philosopher, could find out
nothing more to be desired in human life, than
these four things — old wood to burn, old wine
to drink, old friends to converse with, and old
books to read ; you may be sure of enjoying all
these, and the third of them (which I suppose
he thought the most valuable) in a more per
fect degree than his majesty or his queen,
I am now besieged by snow, but I hope soon
• Sir R. Walpole.

—1734— 123
to make a sortie, and force my way up to Lon
don, and my first business will be to pay my
respects to you, and to assure you that I am,
with the utmost esteem and regard.
Yours, &c. Bathurst,

THE DUCHESS OF QUEENSBERRY TO LADY
SUFFOLK,

[Vol. i. p. 352.]
Ambresbury, Nov. 1734.
MY DEAR LADY SUFFOLK,
I WRIT you word by the post, in answer
to yours, that I was not in the least surprised at
the newspapers, and gave you my reasons ; but
I was indeed surprised at your retiring so on a
sudden, and am afraid you took your resolution
on some very shocking provocation : this I am
confident of, that you gave none ; and, from
that, I hope I may depend on it that you do
not suffer yourself to have the least uneasiness ;
there are few things worth it, and to those who
are thoroughly in the wrong (be they little or
great) nothing but contempt is due. I take the
opportunity of sending this by Lady Anne

1'21. — 1734 —
' Finch, for my heart is full, and I think I have
a vast deal to say to you ; but it is now so late
that you must comprehend all I think by these
few words, which I swear is true — that I love
you. I must add one other truth, though it
can tend to nothing but to tell my mind, viz.
that I am heartily sorry that our house is at
present engaged, or it would have been entirely
at your service ; but I hope you will soon meet
with one to your mind, for I imagine you will
not like to continue at your present abode much
longer. Wherever you are, may God bless and
preserve you " from envy, hatred, malice, and
all uncharitableness ;" I wish you could, and
could like to come and pass some time here. I
am sure I should like it, and do all in my power
to make you not dislike it ; but I will wish no
thing, for fear it should not agree with yours :
this I have the vanity to imagine cannot dis
agree, that I wish extremely ever to have in
my power to convince you, my dear Lady Suf
folk, how very sincerely, faithfully, and affection
ately, I am. Yours, &c.
C. Q.

' Probably Lady Anne Finch, sister of Lord Winchelsea
and of Mr. William Finch, who married the Duke of Queens
berry's sister.

—1735— l!25
I am not sure that I have not wrote non
sense, for I write in a hurry, and a great noise.

LORD LOVELL (AFTERWARDS EARL OF LEI
CESTER) TO THE HON. G. BERKELEY.

QSir Thomas Coke, of Holkham, (member for the county of
Norfolk,) K. B. in 1725; Baron Lovell, in 1728; joint
postmaster-general, in 1 733 ; and Earl of Leicester and
Viscount Coke, in 1744. His only son (the husj)and of
Lady Mary Coke) died before him, and all his titles became
extinct on his own death, in 1759.]

Holkham, July 23, 1735,
Jacta est aled, my dearest cousin and brother-
married man, I heartily wish you joy; and I
think my letter better timed than those that
come at first : then wishing joy is superfluous —
after the honey-moon is over, it comes d propos.
But in the choice you have made, where the
most agreeable beauties of the mind are joined
to those of the body, wishing joy (where it
already is and must last) is at any time a mere
ceremony, I should, however, have done it
sooner had I known you were become one of
lis, which I did not until I heard it by the gen
tlemen at Houghton.
I had a letter from {Lord) Scarborough, ac-

126 —1735—
quainting me that he and Chesterfield were set
out for ^C. Stanhope's. It gave me great joy to
hear Chesterfield was removed, though for never
so short a time, from " Twickenham. C hartley (a
seat of the late Earl of Ferrers) is near C, Stan
hope's, and now belongs to the Lady Ferrers
and Mr. Shirley, I hope none of that ^family
are gone so far from London in this bad weather.

' Probably Lord Chesterfield's youngest brother, who died
in February, 1736.
* This probably refers to Lord Chesterfield's constant at
tentions to Lady Fanny Shirley, who lived at Twickenham
with her aunt. Lady Huntingdon. This seems to have been
a favourite allusion of Lord Lovel's ; for Sir Charles Hanbury
Williams, in his very characteristic poem on the Duchess of
Manchester's Morning, makes it part oi' his lordship's con
versation :
Says Lovel — " There were Chesterfield and Fanny,
"¦ In that eternal whisper which begun
" Ten years ago, and never will be done ;
" For, though you know he sees her every day,
" Still he has ever something new to say ;
" He never lets the conversation fall,
' " And I 'm sure Fanny can't keep up the ball.
" I saw that her replies were never long,
" And with her eyes she answer'd for her tongue.''
Lady Fanny Shirley was the heroine of Lord Chesterfield's
song, " When Fanny, blooming fair."
=> Lord Lovel insinuates, that Lord C. probably expected to
meet Lady Fanny at Chartley.

—1735— 127
Adieu : I will not take up more of your time,
only to remind you, it is usual for married men,
after a short interval, to visit their uncle: if
you thought visiting a cousin might do as well,
I should be most glad to see you here ; and now
you have taken the cares of the world and a
family upon you, it is likely the country may be
better relished than it would have been when
you was a beau. I beg my sincere respects to
Lady Suffolk, and am most truly, &c. Lovell.

LORD PETERBOROUGH TO LADY SUFFOLK.

[Bevis Mount, July, 1735.]
MADAM, I RETURN you a thousand thanks for
your obliging inquiry after my health. I struggle
on with doubtful success : one of my strongest
motives to do so is, the hopes of seeing you at
my cottage before I die, when you either go to
the Bath or to Mrs. Herbert's.
In my most uneasy moments, I find amuse
ment in a 'book, which I therefore send you ; it

' No doubt the Life of Julian the Apostate, by the Abbe de
la Bleterie, published in 1735. ^

128 —1735—
is one of the most interesting I ever read, I
had gathered to myself some notions of the cha
racter from pieces of history written in both ex
tremes, but I never expected so agreeable and
so *fair an account from a priest. In one
quarter of an hour we love and hate the same
person without inconstancy. One moment the
emperor is in possession of our whole heart, and
the philosopher fully possessed of our soul ;
within four or five pages we blush for our hero,
and are ashamed of our philosopher.
What courage, what presence of mind in
danger! the first and bravest man in a Roman
army; sharing with every soldier the ^fatigue
and danger! The same animal hunting after
fortune-tellers, gazing upon the flight of birds,
looking into the entrails of beasts with vain
curiosity; seeking for cunning women (as we

' Lady Hervey says of this work to her correspondent, Mr,
Morris : " We agree, I find, as to our opinion of Julian. I
think him a great man in every respect; but I cannot agree
that the French author of his Life is quite impartial." Letters,
p. 62.
* The retreat of Julian from his Persian expedition bore a
most extraordinary resemblance to the retreat of Buonaparte
from Moscow. The majority of the incidents, and even some
of the names of the officers employed, are wonderfully similar.
In two points the parallel fails. Buonaparte did not share the
fatigues and dangers of his army, and did not die (as Julian
did) by the hand of a Cossack.

—1735— 129
call them) and silly men to give him an account
of his destiny, and, if it can be believed, con
senting to the highest inhumanities in pursuit
of magical experiments.
Yet, when we come to the last scene, the
most prejudiced heart must be softened. With
what majesty does the emperor meet his fate !
showing how a soldier, how a philosopher, how
a *friend of Lady Suffolk's ought (only with
juster notions of the Deity) to die.
The lady, the book, or both together, have
brought me almost into a raving way; I want
to make an appointment with you, Mr, Pope,
and a few friends more, to meet upon the sum
mit of my Bevis hill, and thence, after a speech
and a tender farewell, I shall take my leap to
wards the clouds (as Julian expresses it), to mix
amongst the stars; but I make my bargain for a

' Lord Peterborough himself was at this time dying, and
this allusion to his own case is obvious. Nor did his practice
betray his professions. Pope, in a letter to Dean Swift, and
in another to Miss Blount, of the 25th of August, 1735, gives
an account (very interesting, but too long to be here quoted,)
of not merely the patience, but the heroic vivapity with which
this extraordinary person bore the approaches of a lingering
and painful death. — " This man," says Pope, " was not born
to live nor to die like other men." The letter to Lady Suf
folk must have been written immediately before Pope's visit,
and a very short time before Lord P. sailed from Southampton
to die at Lisbon.
VOL. II. K

130 —1735-
very fine day, that you may see my last amuse
ments to advantage.
Wherever be the place, or whenever the time,
this I can assure you with great sincerity, I
shall remain to the utmost possibility, &c.
Peterborough.

THE EARL OF STRAFFORD TO THE HON. GEO.
BERKELEY.

[Thomas Wentworth, grand-nephew of the great Lord Strafford,
succeeded, in 1695, to the barony of Raby. He served with
distinction under King William, and in 1710 was named
one of the plenipotentiaries for the negotiations at Utrecht,
and on that occasion created Earl of Strafford. He soon
after had the Garter, and was, at the queen's death, first
lord of the admiralty. He never held office after the acces
sion of the house of Brunswick, and died in 1 739.]
Wentworth Castle, Aug. 1, 1735.
SIR,
That I always wished you happy I
hope you believe, and I now conclude you are
entirely so, in your marriage with the most
agreeable lady in Europe ; on which give me
leave sincerely to wish you joy, which I had
done sooner, but I always doubt printed news,
especially in this lying age.

—•1735— 131
A formal letter to a friend on any occasion, I
dislike ; but when one is really pleased with
what happens to them, to stifle that satisfaction
is both unjust to one's self and friend. Therefore
I hope you will receive this, not as a matter of
form, but as the real dictates of a sincere heart,
— of one who has long known you, and has been
long, sir, &c. Strafford.
I must beg my most humble compliments to
the Countess of Suffolk, your lady.

DUCHESS OF QUEENSBERRY TO LADY
SUFFOLK.

[Vol. i. p. 352.]

Brussels, Aug. 1, N. S. 1735.
To-morrow we shall have been here just
a week, where we meant to stay but just a
day. The last time we were here, I thought I
liked this place better than any I ever saw ; but
now I am sure I like it, for it mends on farther
acquaintance. With an abundance of veracity
I could say the same of some of my friends ;
but wherever truth can possibly be taken for
that very base thing called flattery, it had better
never show its head.
k2

132 —1735—
I hope Lady Sophia Keppel's friends have
acquainted my dear Lady Suffolk of the wel
fare of her humble servant. She promised me,
or I should have done it myself; though, be
tween sea-sickness and a continual hurry, I have
really had no time to write, except once to
''Drum, and once to "Miss Fanny. I have not
been so hurried as not to think of you ; be
lieve me, I have often, and that I wish you
well as sincerely as it is possible; as well as if
I wrote a volume, which I am much inclined to
do ; for I have seen such sights as were never
seen — such as I know you have imagination
enough to comprehend, and such as I should
with great pleasure describe were we not to set
out to-morrow at five in the morning, and that
it is now high time to go to bed.
Adieu, my dear Lady Suffolk, Did you ever
see Brussels? The whole country round about
it is like the best-natured ground that ever was
seen, laid out by a ' Bridgeman some years ago.
I like it so well, that I grudge myself the plea
sure I have without that of pointing out all its

' Lord Drumlanrig, her son.
- Probably Miss Frances Leveson Gower, afterwards mar
ried to Lord John Sackville, second son of the first Duke of
Dorset. Their son succeeded his uncle, and was the third
duke. 3 See vol. i. p. 382.

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beauties to every body I love. I must set up
my tent here one of these days ; for every blade
of grass grows exactly to my mind. I hope to
hear very soon from you ; for that will encourage
me to repeat very often what comes from my
heart ; viz. That I am ever sincerely yours, C. Q.

LADY HERVEY TO LADY SUFFOLK.

[;Vol. i. p. 181.]
' Aubigny, Aug. 5, N. S. 1735.
You will not wonder, my dear Lady Suffolk,
that I lay hold of any pretence to write to you;
the consequence of it being so agreeable from so
good a Christian as you are, who always follow
the rules and examples of your great Teacher,
and never fail to return good for evil, I wish
Mr. Berkeley and you both all the joy ima
ginable. Pray be happy; for if you should not,
it would be very difficult to decide on which to

" A chateau and estate in Berry, raised into a duchy by
Louis XIV, in favour of Louise de Queronaille, the mother of
the first Duke of Richmond, and grandmother of him whom
Lady Hervey was now visiting.

134 -1735—
lay the blame, though one of you would be most
excessively in the wrong.
I will not tell you what I think of France :
for you would either distrust me, or despise me
if I did; but pray tell Mr. Berkeley, that if I
did not think of the French as '^ I do, I should
think of them as he does; one must love or hate
them, — there is no mean. I shall send you no
account of the Duke and Duchess of Richmond's
entrance into this town, nor of their reception ;
it would fill a newspaper. But if you have a
great mind to be informed of it, look into the
English History for the account of King Charles
the Second's entrance into London on his re
storation, and that will pretty well answer it ;
adding a few more harangues, larger bonfires,
greater illuminations, more rockets, finer pre
sents, louder drums, shriller trumpets, finer
colours, and stronger huzzas : which last (as a
French servant told me) is in English, " Live
the Duke and Duchess of Aubigne!" I ques
tioned it a little at first; but a second servant
confirmed it, and I am convinced.
If you have any curiosity to know where my
correspondents direct to me, I will gratify it by
telling you it is chez le Due de Richemonde,

' Lady Hervey was notorious for her predilection for the
French.

—1735— 135
dans la Rue des Petits Augustins, Faubourg St.
\Germain, d, Paris. Adieu, my dear Lady Suffolk.
I am both yours and Mr. Berkeley's
Faithful humble servant,
M. Hervey.

LORD BOLINGBROKE TO THE HON. GEORGE
BERKELEY.

[Henry St. John, first Viscount Bolingbroke, too well known
in the literature and history of our country to require any
notice here.]

1 Chanteloup, Aug. 13, 1735.
DEAR SIR, At my return from a ramble I
have made to Paris, Chantilly, and Sens, I hear
that your marriage with my Lady Suffolk is

' A seat near Amboise, in Touraine. In the reign of Louis
XV. the Duke de Choiseul built a fine house here, which was
his retreat in his disgrace. During the Revolution this pro
perty was confiscated, and Buonaparte granted it as a senato-
rerie to Roger Ducos, one of the regicides ; but he was killed
by the overturning of his carriage; and after this judgment
(as the royalists called it) Chanteloup was granted to M.
Chaptal, who flattered Buonaparte's anti-colonial prejudices
by a great manufactory of beet-root sugar established here.

136 ' _1735—
'¦" declared. Do me the justice to believe that I
rejoice in your joy, and that I wish you both a
long and uninterrupted scene of felicity.
You hear from other hands, I suppose, that
your ^brother feels less pain, and fewer disorders
than he did in England, though the season has
been as unfavourable as it can be in a much
worse climate till within these eight or ten days.
He makes however but little use of the fine
weather ; so little, that I am surprised at it ;
because he used to be fond of going abroad in
much worse when he was at Cranford. No care
of him, nor attention to amuse him, which he
will allow, shall be wanting on the part of his
humble servants that are here. We have found
a very pretty * person in the neighbourhood, who
dedicates herself to the same employment. She
has a good deal of art, a reasonable spice of
coquetry, and both are rendered more amiable
by a certain air of simplicity {naive f 6, we French

* This seems to imply, what I believe was the fact, that the
marriage was for some time concealed. As we have seen Mr.
Berkeley {ante, p. 90) explaining the reasons of Lady Suffolk's
journey to Bath, it is probable that he had, even then, some
personal interest in the affair.
' Lord Berkeley was on a visit to Lord Bolingbroke. The
Berkeleys were staunch Whigs; but by this time the Toryism
of Bolingbroke was forgotten in his alliance with Pulteney
against Walpole.
* Probably Mademoiselle Du Pin. hcv post, p. 1.55.

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folks call it,) which the education of Paris and
the female habits of France have not worn off.
Your nephew, my Lord * Dursley, is gone
with the Duke of Richmond to Aubign6. I
wish his father would throw him into the world
with some precautions not hard to be taken, in
stead of confining him here : for, (to speak to
you with a plainness that I flatter myself you
will admit on account of the motive,) otherwise
he would have done almost as well to have left
him at home with ^ Tom Hervey, I am, &c.
'^ H. S^- J. Bolingbroke. -
Will you be so good, as to assure my Lady
Suffolk of my respects ?

* Born in 1717, and afterwards fourth earl. His mother
was the Duke of Richmond's sister.
" Third son of Lord Bristol, remarkable for his eccentricities.
' Several initials precede the title in this signature. The two
or three first of which certainlymean — Henry St. John. Perhaps
this unusual mode of signing has some reference to the situa
tion in which he politically stood: for although his attainder,
as far as regarded the corruption of blood, was reversed, he was
not personally restored to the rights of the peerage. I think
I have sometimes seen his signature with the name of his lady,
Marcilhj, prefixed to it ; and it is not clear that the initial M.
is not one of the letters in the signature to this letter.

138 —1735—

MR. BERKELEY TO LADY SUFFOLK.

Stratton-street, Aug. 30, [1735,]
8 o'clock at night.
The moment your ladyship was ^gone, I went
to bed— lay half an hour— disliked it extremely
— got up again ; never found Marble Hill so
disagreeable; waited with impatience till ten
o'clock, when the boat came and carried me to
London. London mightily altered for the
worse, though Lady Betty IGermaine'] is in town,
and very angry with you for not being there too.
She stays till Wednesday se'nnight. The post
was come in before I left Twickenham, but no
letters for our family. Lord and Lady Pembroke
set out for Wilton to-morrow ; they go by the
way of High Clere. I am told there are some
small hopes of ^ Lord Lempster's doing well. I
have sent your letter to Lady Bristol's house.
Over leaf shall be all about business, which I
am afraid I have performed very ill.
Mr. Page and Mr. Greg's partner were with
me at Lady Betty's this afternoon ; they told me

* Lady Suffolk was on a visit at Stowe.
^ George, who recovered, and in 1 753 succeeded his father
as second Earl of Pomfret: he died in 1785.

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they had been atMarbleHill; that ''Lord Burling
ton would sign the new lease on Monday morn
ing before he set out for Yorkshire, but the man
who has the mortgage upon it will not surrender
the old one without his money in hand : they
did not know how to raise it ; and at Mr. Page's
earnest request, I have left a thousand pounds
in his hands, not to be paid till he hath the new
lease, clear of all incumbrances, signed and in
his hands. If you should not approve of this,
it would vex me more than the loss of a thousand
pounds could. Mr. Middleton, after the bill
you drew for me is paid, will have about six
hundred pounds of yours in his hands.
I hope this will find you in better health than
when you left me, and then I beg of you, for
my sake, take more than usual care of yourself.
My best compliments to *Lord and Lady
Cobham, 'Mrs. Blount, «Mr. Pitt, &c. &c.

3 See vol. i. p. 384. * See post, p. 157.
' See vol. i. p. 233. " Afterwards Lord Chatham.

140 —1735—

LADY SUFFOLK TO MR. BERKELEY.

Sept. 2.
I AM not sorry you disliked Marble Hill, and
I am very glad that you found London so
changed — I hope you will find me as much so, but
strangely to my advantage: for * Baron Sparre
affirms I look better than I did seventeen years
ago, and Lord Cobham says I am the best-look
ing woman of * thirty that he ever saw. These
compliments have entirely cured my head-ache.
I will follow your advice strictly ; and expect,
as I have now told you the method that is proper
to keep me in health, that you will repeat the
doses as often as is necessary. I came in last
night, though very warm and very fine, because
the dew fell ; and I shall in time give you many
such proofs of my prudence, in obedience to your
commands. Baron Sparre consults Mrs. Blount
as a physician ; he tells her * * * and concludes
himself dying, though I believe he was never in
better health. We expect Pope to-morrow ; he
seems not pleased (by a letter he wrote to Lord
Cobham) that I did not wait his return, that I

The Swedish minister.
A high compliment to a lady of about forty-seven.

—1735— 141
might have brought him hither. I know I shall
be pleased with every thing you have done, let
the consequence be never so different from what
ought to be expected. But you must give me
leave to observe, my back is no sooner turned
than you run among lawyers, or, what is just the
same thing, make them come to you.
God bless you, and forgive you! I do with
all my heart and soul, nor do I yet repent that
1 am, H. Berkeley.
All here desire their compliments to you.
Order the horses to be at * Winslow for
Saturday. I shall set out very early from Lord
Cobham's. The saddle-horses must be at the
same place, and all there, I hope, on Friday
night.

' The reader will observe the new signature here adopted
by Lady Suffolk, but not persevered in.
* Near Buckingham, about fifty miles from town.

142 —1735—
MR. BERKELEY TO LADY SUFFOLK.

[Sept. 1735.]
I HAVE ordered a coach and a set of horses
and saddle-horses to be at Winslow on Friday
night, and hope to be blessed with your com
pany on Saturday, though it is a long journey
without another relay.
I send with this a letter from Miss Hobart,
which I have opened and read, and another
from the Spa, which I long to open and read.
I will not be so barbarous as to keep you from
an entertainment I am sure must please you ;
enjoy Miss Hobart's, enjoy the Duchess of
Queensberry's letter; but know you cannot
have half the pleasure in them that I have in
yours, whenever there is a necessity for our
being at a distance. May it seldom happen !
seldom do I desire that great pleasure. Adieu.

LADY SUFFOLK TO MR. BERKELEY.

Stowe, Thursday, Sept. 1735.
I SHALL be satisfied with any horses you send •
for I propose setting out so very early, that I
hope to be with you before it is dark on Satur-

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*
day next, though the horses should be no better
than those that brought me.
I continue very well. I am never in bed at
seven in the morning, nor out of it half an hour
past ten at night. Mr. Pope came here yester
day, and just now six people are come to see
Mrs. Blount ; they are neighbours to Lord Cob
ham, but do not visit ; so that it puts his lord
ship into a little i distress, and me into a good
deal of confusion. So I retired under the pre
tence of writing. This by way of excuse to you
for my sending this letter, when you are to have
the author the day after you receive it.
I have not heard one word how often Madam
Pitt^ and you meet in my absence; I do not
like this silence ; but at your peril ; she has a
brother ; I say no more. I am sorry paper was
so scarce, but I give you warning that you will
not want an old Frenchwoman this month. I
have learnt all the theory of cricket, and have
' Miss Blount was very imperious, and did not much con
sider the inconvenience to which she put her hosts, who were
obliged to bear with her for the sake of Pope, to whmn it is
supposed she was secretly married, and over whom she had a
mysterious but powerful influence. Miss Blount's conduct at
Mr. Allen's (which was much like her behaviour at Stowe)
was the cause of Pope's rupture with that respectable man.
See ante, p. 105.
" Anne Pitt, one of the maids of honour, sister of the first
Lord Chatham, of whom some letters will be found hereafter.

144 — 1735 —
some thoughts of practising this afternoon.
Your conclusion is very proper for me, if you
will multiply it by ten. To-morrow is Friday,
»rsA then comes Saturday, and till then adieu.

MR. BERKELEY TO LADY SUFFOLK.

QSept. 1735.]
Writing pro and con, to my taste is nothing
comparable to talking pro and con. I have a
great deal to say to you, though nothing from
Norfolk. If any letter from thence directed to
Marble Hill should come to my hands this night
before twelve o'clock, I will certainly forward
it to Stowe ; a place I shall hate, if it keeps you
from me, and doth not cure your head-ache. I
am sorry the horses performed so ill. If you
would have me hire the horses to bring you
back at any other place, I shall be very willing ;
for when you are coming to me, I think you
cannot make too much haste.
I nave heard nothing of Mr. Page since I
gave him the thousand pounds on Saturday,
though he promised me I should have it back
again, or the lease executed in due form on
Monday, I shall send after him to-morrow.
What I threatened you with in the beginninf

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of the letter I will keep cold for you till you
come to town ; for as I do not know where to
begin, and my paper will not hold half 1 have to
say, I think it better to say nothing, the whol.e'
being of very little importance. The tw# ' co-
Chamberses went this morning to Hanworth, to
settle for three or four days.
I miss you even more than I thought I sho«ld,
— I cannot express it stronger. Heaven pre
serve you !

WILLIAM PULTENEY, ESQ. TO THE HON. GEO.
BERKELEY.

[Vol. i. p. 200.] Bath, Nov. 10, 1735.
DEAR GEORGE, I THANK you for your letter,
which I ought to have answered sooner ; but
at the Bath one has always an excuse. In a
morning with the waters you must not write ;
and I do nothing but game all the afternoon.
Our friend VMr. Humphreys is here ; but after
seeing me the first day, he has absconded ever

' An allusion to their being co-heiresses.
' See ante, p. 103.
VOL. II,

146 —1735—
since, though before he played for fifty pounds
a day. I grow vastly tired of this place, and yet I
think it has done me good. I must recruit to
hold out the fatigues of the winter ; and yet
I am determined to give myself less trouble
in pari lament, than hitherto I have done. You
may have perceived this resolution arising in
me for some years. It is in vain to struggle
against universal corruption, and I am quite
weary of the opposition. You observed that
my son in the play began early to act the part
of a slave ; but you did not take notice his
business was to deliver a letter : who knows but
it may forbode his being in time as great a
genius as ' Lovel, and becoming postmaster-ge
neral ! The verses you sent me I had seen be
fore, and thought them very pretty. We have
no wit stirring to send you in return, though
Brocas, Marriot, and all the water poets are
now here.
I have no less than seventeen shooting spa
niels with me ; all of which may possibly make
the Vice a visit. If I go I am determined to
shoot the whole day before he shall know any
thing of me ; and when I am near his house, I
will fire twenty shot, though I should happen
to find no game, and fetch him out in pursuit
of me.

' See ante, p. 125.

—1735— 147
My service to Lady Suffolk ; I hope her pe
regrinations have agreed with her. When I
came to town I inquired for you, and heard
you were at Lady Betty's. Had you been in
London, perhaps I had not come to Bath ; but
I hated dining every day at taverns, and I had
no family to live with. I suppose you would
have taken me as a boarder.
* Miss is the glory of the Bath ; she really
dances better than any body here, but one or
two ; and to show my loyalty and her dancing,
I made her most extremely fine on the birth-day.
Our ministers seem to have made a damned * * *
figure in this affair of the peace, I dare say Ho
race knew no more of the terms (hardly of the
negotiation) than Sir Archer * Crofts, and there
fore I can never believe the articles we see in
the papers are all that are agreed on. There
are secret articles as well as ostensible ones, and
since Spain seems to have the worst bargain,
considering her successes, I dare say they are
to be satisfied at our expense, and Gibraltar
and Minorca will make them some amends.
If you have any news, send it me without
reserve ; never mind their opening letters at
the post-office, but bid them * * * * Whatever
' His only daughter, who died in March, 1741, at the
age of fourteen.
4 The second baronet, a lord of trade, but evidently (as Mr.
Pulteney thought) not much considered, even in his own party.
L 2

148 —1735—
discovery they make, it will only confirm theni
in what they must have known, that you and I
agree in having the most contemptible opinion
of our present ministers (I write it at full length)
that is possible ; and that we do not care a groat
what they know or think of us.I am, &c. W. P.
Mrs. Pulteney gives her service to Lady Suf
folk, and to you, and so does Miss.

WILLIAM PULTENEY, ESQ. TO THE HON. GEO.
BERKELEY. Bath, Dec. 6, 1735.
DEAR GEORGE, I SHALL see you so soon, and
have so little to say to you from hence, that if
it was not to write to a fair lady under your
cover, I should not have answered your letter.
On Friday next we leave this place, a damned
unlucky one for me, for I have lost between
five and six hundred pounds at it. Would it
was to be paid, like the Jew's of Venice, iii
flesh instead of money ! I think I could spare
some pounds of that without any great detri
ment, for the waters have made me rather richer
that way than I was before.
The company of this place begins to disperse
apace. * Lady Pembroke and Mr. Mordaunt
' Mary Howe and her second husband.

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have been here a month ; but not one of his old
acquaintances (of whom there are many here)
can get sight of him ; she keeps the poor man
to hard duty, and never suffers him to go abroad
on any account * * * *.
My distress forced me to speak a little roughly
to Mr. * Humphreys, and threaten putting my
note into an attorney's hand; but the poor man
answered so meekly, and promised so fairly, that
he quite melted me into compassion, though I
did not believe one word of his promises.
When you see Lord Scarborough give my
service to him, and tell him ^ Sir Thomas San
derson is much the better for the waters already.
The simple thing I did in losing my own money
made me wise enough to tie up Sir Thomas from
doing the same thing ; in which, I dare say, I
have done him almost the same service as in
persuading him to come here ; but he is as
worthy a little man as ever was born.
On Sunday night, if you will be as kind to
me as we all are to Mr. Herbert, probably I may
see you ; till then, dear George, adieu.
Yours most faithfully, W. P.

» See ante, p. 103.
9 Thomas Lumley, Lord Scarborough's third brother, who
took the name of Sanderson. He was a Knight of the Bath,
and treasurer to Frederick, Prince of Wales. He succeeded
in 1 739 to the earldom of Scarborough.

150 —1736-

WILLIAM PITT, ESQ, (afterwards Earl of Chatham) TO
THE HON. GEO. BERKELEY.

[William Pitt, second son of Mr. Robert Pitt, of Boconnoc,
and Lady Harriet Villiers, (vol. i. p. 101 .) His abilities, his
eloquence, his integrity, and his success, have, not only
immortalized him, but illustrated the councils and elevated
the character of the country. That he was often factious
and interested is saying little more than that he was hu
man ; for pride and passion are interwoven with our na
tures ; but his faults were not frailties, and his errors were,
as Burke said of Charles Townsend's, " owing to a noble
" cause — to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate
" passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great
" souls." He was born in 1 708, educated at Eton and
Trinity College, Oxford. He came into parliament in 1 735,
and was at this time a cornet of horse in Lord Cobham's
regiment. It is strange that neither the Peerage nor the
Biographical Dictionary notice the well-known fact which
this letter (if necessary) would have proved, that Sir Robert
Walpole dismissed him from the army for his parliamentary
conduct. Nay, the latter work gravely informs us, that Mr.
Pitt's " talents leading him to another field of action, he
quitted the life of a soldier for that of a statesman." It
appears by the records of the War Office that Cornet Pitt
was superseded in 1736.] London, June 7, [1736.]
SIR, I HAD been often told, I was obliged to Sir
Robert for honouring me with so distinguished a
mark of his resentment; but I never thoroughly
felt the obligation till I received the favour of

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your letter. I should not be a little vain to be
the object of the hatred of a minister, hated even
by those who call themselves his friends. I am
infinitely so, to think myself in any degree the
object of the esteem of a man so dear to every
one who has the happiness to be his friend, and
so highly esteemed by every one who is not so.
I feel very warmly how valuable is the acquisi
tion of your friendship ; the share you allow me
in it is the surest means for me to acquire, and
the only one by which I can ever come to de
serve, the esteem of the world, and attain in
any degree the worth or talents you are now
willing to suppose in me. What I here say to
you I say from the abundance of a heart full of
gratitude for the kind concern you take in my
situation. I find it hard to tell you half what I
feel ; I only beg, as you think a great deal too
highly of my talents, that you will not refuse
me the single one to which I have any title, that
of knowing how to set a just value upon the
honour and happiness of my Lady Suffolk's and
your friendship. I am mighty glad French ' air
agrees with you both, and hope you will bring
back more health than even English climate
can affect. I say nothing of my sister, who, I
believe, speaks for herself by this same post.
I am, &c. W. Pitt.
^ Mr. Berkeley and Lady Suffolk paid Lord Bolingbroke a
visit in France in the spring of 1736.
4

152 —1736-

THE SECOND LADY BOLINGBROKE TO MR.
BERKELEY.

[Mary Clara de Marcilly, niece of Madame de Maintenon,
widow of the Marquis de Villette, and second wife of Lord
Bolingbroke. She was a person of a most amiable temper
and disposition, and of great good sense. It seems that
Lady Suffolk, Mr. Berkeley, and Miss Hobart made a tour
in Friince in the spring of 1736, in which they visited the
Duke of Richmond at Aubigne, where they probably met
the Bolingbrokes.]

De Fontainebleau, ce Juin 30, 1736.
Mr. de Bolingbroke et moi, monsieur, pre-
nons une part trfes sincere a la perte que vous
avez faite de ' Mr. Henry ; mais Mr. de Chet
wynd^ m'avoit donn6 pen d'espdrance pour sa

1 Probably the Honourable Henry Berkeley, the third bro
ther, who died at Bath, in May, 1736.
' William Chetwynd, brother of the two first viscounts, and
himself in 1767 third Viscount Chetwynd. He was familiarly
called Black Will, and sometimes Oroonoko Chetwynd, from his
dark complexion. He was also known in his intimate society
by the name of Brother Will — under which he will often
appear in these letters. He was a devoted friend of Lord
Bolingbroke, and is said to have usefully assisted him, on the
queen's death, in subtracting and concealing, or destroying
some important papers. His attachment to Bolingbroke, how
ever, did not prevent his enjoying considerable offices to the
end of his long life, which happened in 1 770, within a few
years after he succeeded to the title. It will be seen in the
subsequent pages that he maintained an extraordinary degree
of health, activity, and gaiety to the age of eighty.

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sant6. Je suis veritablement afflig^e que nous
ayons 6t6 priv^s de I'honneur de vous voir a
votre retour, et my Lady Suffolk. Je souhait
que Mile, sa niece soit parfaitement retablie.
Dans I'instant que je re9us votre lettre, j'en-
voyois a la poste pour etre avertie quand vous
changeriez de chevaux. Nous contions prendre
au moins ce moment pour vous aller embrasser,
et vous souhaiter un bon voyage ; mais vous
etiez dej^ pass^. Je vous serois tr^s obligee
de me faire sifavoir de vos nouvelles, si vous
prenez la route de Spa, ou celle d'Angleterre :
je m'interesserai toute ma vie sincerement k
ce qui vous r^garde.
Le lendemain que j'ai perdu I'esp^rance de
vous voir ici, j'allai dans la maison que nous
avons lou6e, ou j'aurois un grand plaisir de
vous recevoir : j'en revins hier, et nous con-
tons de nous y etablir tout-a-fait demain : c'est
un assez joli hermitage, environn^s de prome
nades charmantes. Mr. de Bolingbroke me
prie de vous assurer et my Lady Suffolk de son
respect. M. de Montmorin me demande la m^me
chose; sa femme est a Paris, et surtout de faire
notre cour k Mile. Hobart. Je suis, monsieur,
tres parfaitement, votre trfes humble et trhs
ob6issante servante, M. Bolingbroke. '

154 —1736—
Ne faites pas d'excuse de votre stile Francois,
car il est fort bon, mais c'est m'offenser de ne
pas m'6crire en Anglois ; — que je sache done de
vos nouvelles en quelque langue que ce soit.
Ayez la bont6 d'adresser votre lettre k Arge-
ville, par Montreaufaut-Yonne. Ce qui a fait
que j'ai re9u si tard celle que vous m'avez fait
la grace de m'6crire d'Aubigny, c'est qu'elles
vont dela a Paris, et sont renvoy^s ici; j'en ai
v€^u line en memetems de my Lord ' Berkeley,
qui dit que les gouttes ne lui font ni bien ni
mal : c'est beaucoup, vil I'opiom dont il les ac-
compagne. Je conte 1' aller voir des que j'aurai
etabli mon domicile, et rendue une visite k un
de mes amis en ce pays ci.

LADY BOLINGBROKE TO MR, BERKELEY.

a Argeville, ce 31 Juillet.
Je souhaite, monsieur, que vous ayez fait
un heureux voyage, et que Mde. la Comtesse
de Suffolk et Mile, sa niece aient recouvert
une parfaite sant6 aux eaux, car je ne croi pas

^ James, the elder brother, was now in France for the benefit
of his health, but in vain — he died at Aubigne, in August,
1736.

—1736— 155
que vous preniez celles de Spa; du moins il me
semble qu'il n'est pas ordinaire de les prendre
pour la goutte. J'ai des nouvelles de my Lord
Berkeley, et*M«. duPin, qui a pass6 par ici en
allant chez lui, qu'elle I'a trouv6 assez bien, qu'il
sort toutes les apres-diner pour aller k la chasse
dans la chaise, mais qu'il allie toujours I'opiom
et les gouttes du General la Motte : nous con-
tons M. de Bolingbroke et moi de I'aller voir
dans ce mois ci.
Je ne manquerai pas, monsieur, si on en-
voyoit un ambassadeur en Angleterre, comme
on en a parle, de faire passer par lui votre vais-
selle ; ou m6me de voir avec M. de Chavigny,
en cas qu'il retourne chez vous, s'il pent s'en
charger en toute surety. M. de Moutier est
en chemin pour aller k Hanovre et ensuite a
Londres. Comme mon ami Du Noquet k Ca
lais est charge de toutes ces affaires, il pour-
roit, je croi, faire passer cette vaisselle, en cas
que cela se puisse, et qu'elle soit faite k tems.
Mandez moi, monsieur, si vous voulez que me
je me serve de cette voie, et s'y c'est k Mons,
Alexandre que je dois m'adresser. L'adresse
pour m'^crire sera plus sure en lui adressant
votre lettre, ou en mettant, k Argeville, par

' See ante, p. 136.

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Moret, route de Bourgogne, et au haut, par
Paris. M. de Bohngbroke me prie, monsieur, de
vous faire ses trfes humbles complimens : lui et
moi assurons de nos respects Mde. de Suffolk :
je m'int6resse infiniment k Mile, sa niece, on
ne pent I'avoir vu et penser autrement. Ose-
rois-je vous supplier de faire mes complimens a
toute la famille des Queensberry, et k M. Pul
teney. J'ai et6 bien aise d'apprendre que sa
sant6 est beaucoup meilleure, C'est ^brother
Will qui me I'a mand6. M. de Bolingbroke me
parait tr^s constant de notre petit hermitage,
qui en effet en est un. Quoiqu'assis pr^s du
monde, on peut ici I'ignorer, et en 6tre aussi
ignores que Ton vent, et I'un et I'autre est assez
commode. Je suis, monsieur, pour ma vie, et
tres sincerement, votre tr^s humble et trfes
obeissante servante,
M. Bolingbroke.

See ante, p, 152,

—1736— 157
LORD COBHAM TO LADY SUFFOLK.

Sir Richard Temple, created Lord Cobham on the Hanoverian
accession, colonel of the first regiment of dragoons, con
stable of Windsor Castle, lord lieutenant of Bucks, and go
vernor of Jersey. In 1733 he was removed from all his
offices, and was one of the leaders of the opposition till Wal
pole's overthrow ; when he was reappointed to his military
commands, and in 1 745 was one of the regents during the
king's absence abroad. His political influence was very
considerable ; but he is now best remembered by the poetry
of Pope and the gardens of Stowe. He died in 1 749 without
issue by his lady (Anne Halsey), and his titles and estates
devolved to his sister, the wife of Mr. Richard Grenville,
and their children.

Stowe, Nov. 11th, 1736.
MADAM, I SEND this morning to Wootton,
where * Mr. Grenville now is, and I hope time
enough for his writing by this post to Bath. I
cannot imagine how the accident which has be
fallen his letter happened ; for I know the gen
tleman has certain levities, yet I do not take
them to be of this kind. If there be another
Mrs. Chambers at the Bath, she must be a very
odd one to send a letter opened, though by
' Richard Grenville, nephew of Lord Cobham, first Lord
Temple, who was now, it seems, wooing, under Lady Suffolk's
auspices. Miss Anne Chamber, to whom he was soon afterwards
married. It is evident that a letter intended for this fair one
was opened by some other lady of the same name.

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mistake, in the manner she did ; but whatever
has been the occasion of this misfortune, it has
given another instance of your favour to us,
with which I am as much pleased as I am in
the prospect of the great fortune which may be
the consequence of it. I have ever had the
greatest esteem and respect for you, and if my
poor family may be united by your means to
one for which I have the highest veneration, it
will be the greatest good fortune that can ever
befall me. You will please to make my compli
ments to Mr. Berkeley and Miss Pitt, and be
lieve me to be, &c. Cobham.

DUCHESS OF QUEENSBERRY TO LADY SUF
FOLK.
Ambresbury, Oct. 19, 1737.
I GAVE ' Mr, Spa a letter for you the day before
yesterday ; but considering you may not have
it this month, I need not be ashamed to trouble
you again so soon ; though I must own that he
almost promised to be in London by Monday
or Tuesday next, and from thence to Marble
Hill, if you were not expected in town, which
he would inquire at your house. I heartily
congratulate Lady Betty Germaine on her re-
' Quere, Baron Sparre.

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turn. I dare say she will like England upon
the whole as well as most places she hath seen.
* Mrs. Floyd, to be sure, hath left off combing
her head above once in a fortnight or three
weeks. I beg she will not leave off her tHe de
mouton and her pannier till I can be charmSe and
ravie to see her.
Before Lady Betty left England she was
extremely humane to a relation of mine, who
was much touched with her great good na
ture. I wish you would let me know that she
was really heartily obliged to her, for I am
sure she never will. I mightily thank Lady
Betty for my cloak, I am sure her fears are
quite unnecessary ; if they will hide me and
keep me warm, it is all I either wish or want ;
and as every thing must be genteel that comes
from Paris, I am in hopes Mrs. Herbert will
approve of my visiting in that dress.
I hope your head-ache hath left you, and that
it only proceeded from the noise and vivacity of
your new-come-from-Paris friends. Lady Betty's
picture is very safe ; it hath afforded me great
entertainment and content. I doubt I shall not
bring it safe to town till Mrs. Herbert returns
to High-clere. I am glad to find by yours that

* See p. 1 8. Biddy Floyd had lately accompanied Lady Betty
Germaine to France.

IGO —1737—
she hath no complaint left. I am not in the
least obliged to Mrs, Pitt for giving the beef
eaters to his grace. I cannot speak to the Duke
of ^ Manchester, and if I could, I am sure he
could not answer me. If you should happen to
see my Lord* Scarborough, would you have the
goodness to tell him that I am vastly obliged to
him ? It was prodigiously honest to remember
even during his illness that he had promised us
beech-mast. If the year had proved half so
good as it promised, we should have had plenty;
hitherto we have got none. Without doubt
this is very impertinent ; but pray excuse it if
vou possibly can, for I am planting mad.
The latter part of your letter refers to some
thing I had written to you, which I have entirely
forgot ; but this I am sure of, that whether you
thank me or not, I can never be guilty of laying
stupidity or ingratitude to your charge. The
first very properly belongs to me at this present
writing ; the other, I trust to Providence, will
never; but if it should, it can never hurt you.
You are insured by your over great goodness,
which may defy me and all my works, should I
ever prove a devil.

' William, second Duke of Manchester, husband of the ce
lebrated Isabella. He was a lord of the bedchamber, and
died without issue in 1739.
* See ante, p. 87.

—1737— 161
LORD CHESTERFIELD TO LADY SUFFOLK.
[Vol. 1. p. 1.] Bath, Nov. 14, 1737.
MADAM, Your commands were too obliging
not to be immediately and thankfully complied
with, by one who would pay the most willing
obedience to any you could lay upon him. If
all ladies and kings (the great rulers of this
world) would command in your way, how po
pular would their governments be with their
subjects, and how easy to themselves ! At least
I would advise kings to practise it, as the only
method they have left to revive passive obe
dience. You commanded me to do what I had
most a mind to do myself; and what would
otherwise have wanted an excuse has now the
merit of obedience.
I must tell you, then, that the health you
were so good to interest yourself in, is as much
mended in this one week as I expected I could
be in the six weeks I am to stay here, I have
recovered the stomach I had lost, am quite free
from the complaints in my head, and have in a
good degree regained my spirits, which, I am
sure, must be entirely owing to the waters, and
VOL. II, M

162 _1737—
not to the company here ; for though this place
is very full, here are very few with whom I
either am or desire to be acquainted. As for
quality, we have the very flower of it in the
august persons of the Duchesses of * Norfolk
and * Buckingham, who, thank God, are well
enough together to avoid the fatal disputes
about rank, which might otherwise arise between
the first duchess of the kingdom and a princess
of the blood. Your kinswoman, the Duchess
of Norfolk, had like the other day to have been
the innocent cause of Mrs. Buckley's death.
Mrs, Buckley was bathing in the Cross Bath,
as she thought, in perfect security, when of a
sudden her grace, who is considerably increased
in bulk even since you saw her, came, and, like
the great leviathan, raised the waters so high,
that Mrs. Buckley's guide was obliged to hold
her up in her arms to save her from drowning,
and carry her about like a child.
You will, I am sure, expect from me I'histoire
amoureuse et galante of Mr. Herbert^; but I am

' There were two Duchesses of Norfolk at this time ; Mary
Blount, wife of Edward, ninth Duke of Norfolk, and a dowager-
duchess, Mary Shireburne, widow of the eighth duke, re-mar
ried to Mr. Widdington. The latter is probably the person
whose size Lord Chesterfield celebrates.
' See vol. i.p. II 2.
' Sec vol. i. p. 77, and ante, p. 1 14.

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very sorry, both for our sake and his, that it
makes but a very small volume this year. He
lies in bed till between ten and eleven, where
he eats two breakfasts of strong broth ; then
rides till one or two ; after which he dines com
monly pretty plentifully with me, and concludes
the evening at billiards and whist. He some
times laughs with the girls, but with moderate
success. He had distinguished at first * Mrs.
Earle, daughter-in-law to Giles Earle^, a very
handsome woman, till a little man about half
his height, one Mr. Harte, like a second David,
had the impudence to attack, and the glory to
defeat him. Since which he has contented him
self with a little general waggery, as occasion
offers, such as snatching the bread and butter
out of a girl's hands, and greasing her fingers
and his own ; taking away a cup of tea ready
prepared for somebody else, and such other like
indications of innocent mirth ; but he is by no
means established to his satisfaction, as when
you were here.
For my own part, were it not for the comfort
of returning health, I believe I should hang
myself, I am so weary of sauntering about with
out knowing what to do, or of playing at low
pay, which I hate, for the sake of avoiding deep
' The lady of W. Rawlinson Earle, Esq.
^ See vol. i. p. 10.
M 2

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play, which I *love; that I look upon the re
maining five weeks which I am to pass here as
a sort of an eternity, and consider London as a
remote land of promise, which God knows
whether I shall ever get to or no ; if I do, my
first attention, as well as my greatest satisfac
tion, will be to assure you of the perfect truth
and respect with which I am.
Madam, yours, &c.
Chesterfield.
May I beg my compliments to Mr. Berkeley
and Miss Hobart, who, I hope, are both well.

THE EARL OF PEMBROKE TO LADY SUFFOLK.
Wednesday, June 21, 1738.
Weather, bridges, attendance, reviews, and
some business really of consequence, are the
reasons that ' rib, *Sir Andrew Fountain, myself.

* See vol. i. p. 5.
' His lady, Mary Fitzwilliam.
* Swift's old friend, who makes so constant a figure in the
journal to Stella.

—1738— 165
and 'Chuff, have not yet done what they ought
to have done, but hope to do so soon. I must
give rib her due ; she has often put me in mind
of it, so that the fault lies upon me, but not, as
Lady Suffolk thinks, from an aversion to Marble
Hill, and we hope next Tuesday to convince
her of it. If that day is inconvenient, we desire
an answer.
I was not in the coach, nor in company, when
it was overturned near Marble Hill. The coach
man is dead ; but I this moment sent up for the
postilion, and asked him several questions re
lating to that overturn, without telling him for
what reason * I questioned him ; and I fear
upon his examination it would turn out that
they had mistook their way, and were got out
of the road for Isleworth into a by lane ; for his
expression was, that it was in a lane, where they
were told afterwards no coach had been for
many years ; but, be that as it may, if he can
be of service, he shall attend if in town ; and if
he can do no good'as an English witness, we
must make an Irish one of him. If he is not
ordered to attend till after Tuesday, we shall

^ His dog ; his well-known fondness for which Lord Pem
broke himself rallies.
* It seems that Lady Suffolk wished to turn a road near
Marble Hill, and was looking for evidence of the danger of
the old one.

166 —1739—
be able to inform ourselves better upon the
spot ; and if then we get nothing that will an
swer our purpose, I beheve the roads are not
yet so good, but that, with a little help, I can
contrive an overturn on Tuesday, which will
make the thing sure. As for rib, she may stay
in the coach if she pleases, but I must take
Chuff out of it. Lady Suffolk, I know, will be-
lieve me in this, and she may as safely.
That I am, &c. Pembroke.

WILUAM PULTENEY, ESQ. TO THE HON,
GEORGE BERKELEY.

Arlington Street, Oct. 2, 1739.
DEAR SIR, Mrs. Pulteney and I beg our
compliments and thanks to Lady Suffolk and
you for your kind invitation of us, and your
care of * Master. His fever (God be praised !)
has quite left him, and he is in a fair way of
recovering as speedily as the bad weather and

' His only son, afterwards Viscount Pulteney, who died at
the age of seventeen. ^He was a youth of much promise. Dr.
Douglas, the detector of Lauder, and afterwards Bishop of
Salisbury, was his tutor.

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bad time of the year will suffer him. If I would
take the liberty of carrying a sick child to any
body's house, it should be to you and Lady Suf
folk, but I hope and dare say there will be no
need of it. He will neither want to go into
the country nor out of it ; but if I perceive the
least cough remaining, or any hectical disposi
tion, I will immediately send Mrs. Pulteney
and the boy to France, and follow them myself
in the spring.
I find it is determined we are to go to parlia
ment again this winter. The city has given in
structions to their members to pass no money
bill until a place bill be obtained. This ex
ample I hope will be followed, and then we
must go to parliament on this errand, if for
nothing else ; but I hope and believe we shall
have something more to do, and probably suc
ceed better than formerly. I am, &c. Wm. Pulteney.
Our services to Lady Suffolk and Miss Ho
bart.

168 —1740—

THE HON. GEORGE BERKELEY TO LADY
BOLINGBROKE.

1740.
MADAM, You must think me the most un
grateful as well as the most ungallant man
alive, not to have answered so very obliging a
letter from a lady sooner. I once attempted an
answer in French, but was not surprised that I
wanted words to express the grateful sentiments
of my heart in a language I so little understand,
when I considered what is beyond imagination
must be above expression in any language,
though one had the eloquence of my Lord or
even my Lady Bolingbroke ; but sincerely I
never was better pleased in my life than to find
you still retained so kind a remembrance of
me, and that I had some share in the esteem of
the person in the world the most to be honoured
and valued. The true reason of my not writing
sooner was, that I had heard you were gone to
the waters of Bourbon, and thought to have
congratulated you on your return, and on the
establishment of your health ; but I have the
mortification to hear that now you are returned
it is with a lame hand. May every part of you
be answerable to your head and your heart, and
then you will be perfect.

—1740— 169
I am now at the Bath for Lady Suffolk's*
health, who desires you would accept her com
pliments, and grudges me nothing in the world
so much as being better acquainted with Lady
Bolingbroke than she is, or probably can ever
be. Our little girl. Miss Hobart, would never
forgive me, if I did not mention her respects to
Lady Bolingbroke, though I think it is a little
for the sake of Mr. Montmorin, who, as being
the first that ever made love to her, will certainly
be well with her as long as she lives. If it will
not too much disturb the profound thoughts of
the great metaphysician, you may assure him
no plain mortal can be more his humble servant
than I am.
I shall say nothing to you about public af
fairs, but whether you will give us war or give
us peace ; and I must own I heartily hate your
nation, because I see it is in their power to
give us what they please : — yet there is one
French woman I always must prefer to all the
world. Poor Brinsden, who undertakes to send this
letter for me, is at the Bath, in a very bad way
with a lame foot. The learned were afraid of a
mortification, but he is thought out of danger,
at least for this time.
I think one should always be glad when there
is one lawyer less ; so I rejoice with you that
the world has doubtless missed of an excellent

170 —1740—
one by yom finger and thumb ' being obliged to
change his name to O'Brien ; and you will be
better pleased to hear, that, if I am rightly in
formed. Sir Charles- hath behaved in the hand
somest manner to 'Lady Blandford and all his
father's family, and now gives evident proofs
that he will act in every thing as becomes *Sir
William Wyndham's son.
For fear I should tire you so much that it
should frighten you from ever provoking me to
write again, I will now dismiss you with the
warmest wishes for your happiness, and the
strongest assurances of my attachment that I
can possibly make.
P. S. If you care to know any thing about
myself, my gout is not very troublesome to me,
and I have as much health as any one needs to

' Percy Windham, second son of Sir William Windham,
changed his name to O'Brien, for the estates of his uncle.
Lord Thomond. It seems by this observation that he had
been studying the law. It is likely that Lady Bolingbroke
had used Mr. Windham on some occasion as her amanuensis;
whence the allusion to finger and thumb.
¦^ Eldest son of Sir W. Windham and Lady Catharine Sey
mour, daughter of the Duke of Somerset. On the death of
the latter. Sir Charles became Earl of Egi-emont.
' Second wife of Sir W. Windham, relict of William, Mar
quis of Blandford.
' Sir William died July 17, 1740.

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have that leads so insipid a life. I dare not
drink, making love would be ridiculous at my
age, and I have too much and too little money
to game.

LADY BETTY GERMAINE TO MR, BERKELEY.

[]On the prospect of the dissolution of the parliament in 1741,
Mr. George Berkeley went down with Lord Montrath, to
canvas Heydon, on Mr. Pulteney's interest ; but they were
unsuccessful, Mr. Shute and Mr. Robinson being ultimately
chosen, Mr. Chetwynd accompanied Mr. Berkeley.]

March 28, 1741.
I HOPE my dear George wont be extremely
alarmed at seeing my hand instead of Lady
Suffolk's, for at present it is laudanum only
hinders her writing. Since you went she has
been rather worse, and as she told you she would,
did send for Dr. Burton, who says positively it
is a rheumatism, and whilst this cursed wind
lasts she cannot be long easy, and nothing but
great quantities of laudanum can be of any use
to her, which is the way he cured my Lady Fre
derick and Mrs. Howard, who lives in the same

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street. You know my * non credos, and how I
love hunting dead lies, though not living crea
tures ; so my Lord Hobart and I agreed upon
his lordship's waiting upon Mrs. Howard to
find how far we might depend on the doctor's
veracity ; and in fact Mrs. Howard's description
of herself agreed exactly with Lady Suffolk's.
Mrs. Howard says she has had all the doctors
in town, been physicked with mercury, blistered,
and blooded, but nothing gave her a moment's
ease but laudanum, and that made her perspire
violently, and she has now been free from it
these three weeks. However, Dr. Burton has
put a blister behind Lady Suffolk's ear, and I
see it has drawn a great deal, and as there is no
pain, he designs to keep it on ; and I must own I
cannot help fancying it is that has done her
good, for she had been very uneasy all night
and this morning, though she had taken rather
more laudanum than usual, slept very little, but
since dinner is easier, and has been fast asleep
from five till now, which is near nine ; so lest
she should not wake time enough to write, I
venture to give you the alarm of seeing my fair
hand, imagining it will be a less uneasiness than
not hearing any thing of her.

' Lady Betty, in her letters to Swift, says more than once
that all the Latin she knows is non credo, " I do not believe.''

—1741— 173
Dowager Duchess of St. Alban's ^ has been
dying, as her children thought ; the duke and
Lord 'Vere hurried away to Windsor last Thurs
day, and Lady Vere is gone there to-day, and
she is now better. Our journey to the Bath
holds for next Tuesday, and I hope you are
the better for yours. Pray give my love to
brother Will {Chetwynd), and tell him it is rather
stronger than ordinary towards him, for his good
ness in going with you ; for though, to be sure.
Parson Head is the best of company, yet if you
should not be well, I should not have chosen him
in the capacity of a nurse too these godly times.
I have seen nobody : so, whether the whole
French fleet is destroyed, and the Duke of Lor
raine chosen emperor, this deponent knoweth
it not, God bless my dear George for ever.
Ten o'clock, Saville Row.
Lady Suffolk has been awake, and is much
easier ; she wanted Mrs, Herbert to sit by her,
and talk to her, but she stole away, and Lady
Suffolk is now fast asleep again.
^ Diana Vere, eldest daughter, and eventually heiress, of
the last Vere, Earl of Oxford, She died in the following
January. 5 Lord Vere Beauclerk, third son of the first Duke of St,
Alban's ; an ofiicer in the navy, and from 1737 to 1749 a
lord of the admiralty. He married the elder of the Misses
Chamber, and was created, in 1750, Lord Vere of Hanworth.
His son became, in 1787, fifth Duke of St. Alban's,

174 —1741—
LADY SUFFOLK TO MR. BERKELEY
April 3d, 1741, Friday morning.
I HAVE had a very good night, and have quite
left off laudanum, and find myself so well, that
nothing but prudence keeps me at home : the
wind is changed, and if it continues favourable
till Sunday I shall go abroad.
Here is a vast deal of good news in town from
our fleets ', but the ways it is brought keeps the
wise in suspense ; one part has gained credit on
all sides, that is, that three of the ^Cara— (I can
not spell this word) ships have been taken ; but it
is the complete victory said to be gained by
Admiral Vernon, in conjunction with Sir Chan
dler Ogle, over the Spanish and French fleet,
that is so much doubted of \
A great many weddings are soon to be ; Lord
* Conway's is agreed on with Lady Bell Fitz-

' Four ships of the fleet under Sir Chaloner Ogle had a
rencontre by night, and a smart action with an equal number
of French ships. As war had not yet been declared, this
action was attributed (probably with truth) to mistake,
' She means Caraccas, the name given to the Spanish
guard-ships. ^ The official accounts of Vernon's success before Carthagena
did not arrive in London till the 1 8th of May.
* Francis, afterwards first Earl and Marquis of Hertford of
his branch, married, 29th May, 1741, Lady Isabella Fitzroy,
daughter of Charles, second Duke of Grafton, and great grand
daughter of Charles II.

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roy ; and Lord Carlisle's eldest * daughter is to
marry Sir Jonathan Cope's eldest son.
Friday night,
I have just got two letters from you, my dear
George ; one from the banks of the Humber,
the other from Heydon ; this last gives me al
most as much uneasiness as Lady Betty's did
you. My only hopes are in Mr. Chetwynd,
that he prevailed on you to stay till my letter
of Tuesday last could reach you at Heydon.
I think this argument must be strong, that if
you did not wait for one post day, you must re
solve on passing your whole journey without
knowing whether I was dead or alive ; and as I
calculate the time, you could not possibly wait
above two days for the post that would bring
my letter, which I am sure would make you
easy. Depending much on brother Will, I am
determined to send this. Thursday's letter will
be still more comfortable, and if you stay to re
ceive this, you may be certain I was never better
in my whole life. For God's sake, do not stir
from Heydon till your affairs are settled to your
satisfaction. You do not tell me a word of
either your hopes or fears ; and I assure you

* Lady Arabella Howard married Mr. Cope. She died in
1746. They were the parents of Sir Charles, the second
baronet of his branch.

176 —1741 —
the success of your negotiation has employed
my thoughts, and uncertainty exercised my
patience for some days past. Mr. Pulteney
has this moment sent me word that you will be
soon in town ; but I still flatter myself you are
at Heydon. I am well, going to bed, and shall
finish my letter to-morrow.
Saturday morning, April the 4th.
I have had a very good night, but had dreams
of my dear George and Heydon election. I
find that I shall fret most exceedingly if I should
be the occasion of any omission in this affair.
I have sent to Mr. Middleton, and you may
depend on your bills being answered. I have
taken leave of my doctor ; I believe I should
say he took his of me. The medicines he
has ordered are to be continued a fortnight,
but do not confine me. Mrs. Pitt was the
whole day with me ; the Duchess of Queens
berry is just gone out of the room without
having sat down in it ; proposed carrying Miss
Hobart to the play, which was refused, as any
favour of that kind always shall be. Mrs. Her
bert is constantly with me every day ; Mrs,
^ Grenville, Lady Betty {Germaine), nor my bro
ther, had not left me (if I may judge by their

8 Anne Chamber, sister of Lady Vere, wife of Richard
Grenville, afterwards first Lord Temple.

—1741— 177
goodness when here) had I not been much
better.
Saturday afternoon.
'' Lord Strafford is returned ; Mr, * Gravencop
has been with me to-day, very much yours and
brother Will's humble servant : he speaks very
well of the young man. The Duke of Argyll
has been with me an hour tete-d-tite. I find,
should I indulge myself in it, I could write non
sense for two hours, I shall not seal this till
nine at night ; but if I add nothing more, you
may depend on my being then perfectly well,
and engaged at whist, though perhaps thinking
of you.

LADY SUFFOLK TO MR. BERKELEY.
St, James's, April 4th, [1741.]
Yesterday was a public breakfast, and you
were not forgot; to-day was a tite-d-tite, and
you made a very good figure in a ^ key of near

' William Wentworth, second Earl of Strafford of his
branch, He| was a correspondent of Horace Walpole, He
died in 1791.
' No doubt the same gentleman so often mentioned in Lord
Chesterfield's Letters to his Son.
' One of the cant words of Mrs. Howard's circle at court
for a conversation.
VOL, II, N

178 —1741—
two hours: it was then resolved to keep our
word, and convince you that there were women
of honour, if you would not be convinced that
there were women of sense. I am not in much
pain about this latter part of character, because
I may indulge myself in being as impertinent
as ever I please, without any fears of your being
surprised. IVTrs. Herbert thinks that my little family is a
very proper subject for your entertainment ;
that you ought to be informed that ^ Miss Hobart
and I are upon very ill terms ; that ' Master Ho
bart, for whom, I know, you have the greatest
tenderness, we suspect has quarrelled with his
musical playfellow; and that * Mrs. Bedingfield,
who used to command her passion, was very
much ruffled this morning. You remember that
the night before you went I was under great
apprehensions that her little companion would
engage her in an affair very improper for her ;
but I do think it is now perfectly well settled
without her knowing any thing of it. I hope
you may be able to give us as edifying and as
amusing an account of your travels as I have
done of all these great affairs, if the want of
spruce beer has not impaired your understand-
* Her niece.
3 Her nephew, afterwards Earl of Buckinghamshire.
* Mrs. Bedingfield (see vol. i. p. 256) now resided with Lady
Suffolk as a kind of companion or governess of Miss Hobart,

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ing as much as the use of that and of the waters
has enlivened mine. But whether I really am
sprightly or dull, sick or well, pleased or dis
pleased, I am truly and sincerely Yours, &c.
H. Suffolk.
I know you love news. The Prince of Orange,
Princess Amelia, arid Princess Caroline, with
Lady ^Delorain, have been to-day to see the
tombs.

MR. BERKELEY TO LADY SUFFOLK.

Lincoln, Friday, April 5, 1741,
almost two degrees north of the ' oven.
Greatly must he love his country, who for
its sake will make a journey into it, and travel
from the spring at London an hundred and fifty
miles into the depth of winter. I know (Mrs.)
Herbert's impatience expects a journal from
you of our distresses upon the road. But what
can she hope for from people not encumbered
with hoop-petticoats and band-boxes ! It is

* Mary Howard: see vol. i. p. 260.
' Lady Suffolk's apartment.
N 2

180 —1741—
true, like reasonable men, we carried all sorts of
useful things with us, and our coach was so
heavy loaded, that we did not get into our inn
till ten o'clock the first night, though we set
out at five in the morning. It is as true the
second night we could get no room at all in
our inn, it happening to be a fair day at ^ Gran
tham, and were forced to go two miles further,
and take possession of Lord ^Tyrconnel's house,
where we did pretty well, though his lordship
was not in the country. But in setting out
from thence our coachman, who is an excellent
roadsman, as he was driving furiously round a
paved court, took a fancy to fall off his box, and
pitch upon his head ; but being a man, and of
course having a good head*, it did not much
hurt him, only damaged the pavement a little;
and made us lose half a day, which caused us to
lie at this place, where we have had the pleasure
of a visit from Lord *Deloraine, who seems very
' It appears that these gentlemen were two long days in
travelling to Grantham, 110 miles; but it would seem they
had their own horses.
3 Belton House, then the seat of John, only Viscount Tyr-
connel of his family, now of Lord Brownlow, who is descended
from Lord Tyrconnel's sister.
^ Mr. Berkeley used to rally Lady Suffolk and Mrs. Herbert
on ladies having no heads.
5 Henry Scot, third son of the Duke of Monmouth, first
Earl of Deloraine.

— 1741— 181
much heated with the country interest^ and Lin
coln ale. Indeed, we have never been alone,
not so much as in the coach, for we have been
forced to carry a-servant with us all the way,
because the horse which was to have met him
the first stage from London was forgot. All
these things, with a little scurvy pain in my
foot, though to no great degree, have put me
into such a humour, that if the interest where
I am going is not very good, I shall in all pro
bability go near to spoil it. But with all my
misfortunes, let me hear often from dear Lady
Suffolk that she is in perfect health, and I will
own it is possible to be extremely pleased in the
country. Yours most faithfully,
G. Berkeley.

MR. BERKELEY TO LADY SUFFOLK.
Heydon, Sunday, April 9, 1741.
If you expect to be entertained with any more
grievances of mine, you have disappointed your
self, for I am really so delighted with hearing
from you, that Idefyall the corporations, mayors,
' What is now called the popular interest.

182 —1741—
aldermen, and burgesses in Europe to put me
out of humour ; for talk what they will of the
north, when I know I am in Lady Suffolk's
thoughts, I am in the place of the world where
I most wish to be. Giving me an account of
your own family was very obliging, for what
relates so nearly to you must interest me.
Besides, it gives me an opp^ortunity of saying
(without much impertinence) what I have long
thought, that you should, for Miss Hobart's
sake, begin your office of rebuker with her. I
was always apprehensive she might learn ill
tricks from Mrs. Bedingfield, and that keeping
such constant company with that paralytic
woman might in time make her shake herself,
if you did not prevent that bad habit. As for
my school-fellow ^ Jack, quarrel with whom he
will, I know he is in the right, and uses them
as they deserve.
I have behaved so ill at this place, that they
are glad to be rid of me, and do not insist upon
my staying here longer than Tuesday next, and
I may hope to drink a bottle of spruce with you
on Saturday night. If you or (Mrs.) Herbert
have honoured me with another letter, which I
have not the assurance to hope, it will not
come while I am here, but be returned to me

' Master Hobart : see ante, page 1 78.

—1741— 183
at London ; so ^ Lovel will have the pleasure of
reading it twice before I have seen it once. If
Lady ^Tankerville said any thing to my dis
paragement at the public breakfast, pray tell
her she had better padlock up her mouth than
open it to so little purpose.
I dined this day with Mr. Bethel, high sheriff
of this county, and ate of a salad composed of
coss-lettuce as fine as can grow, except at
Marble-Hill. I think this epistle as much as
you can expect, and am much afraid a great
deal more than you desire, from one who has
been smoking with a mayor and aldermen till
twelve at night, and the post to go out by seven
in the morning. Yours, &c. G. Berkeley.

LADY SUFFOLK TO MR. BERKELEY.

London, April 18, 1741, Saturday.
My head is pretty easy, but my charming
face, which, to be sure, gives pain to others.

'' See ante, pages 64 and 125.
^ Camilla Colville, wife of the second Lord Tankerville. She
lived to a great old age. His lordship's mother was Mr.
Berkeley's grand-aunt.

184 —1741-
now fully revenges their quarrel. But I have
yet resisted laudanum : how long my resolution
will hold, God knows, for the temptation is at
this moment very strong. I have one with my
self, and would be indulged in asking you a few
questions. How has the east wind and a long
journey agreed with you ? How is your ancle ?
How agree your fellow-travellers ? Do not you
wish for ^brother Will? And how often have
you thought of me ?
Mrs, Herbert is here : if I get easy, we go out
together. Mrs. Pitt tells me she will pass some
time with me at Marble Hill, She and Lady
'^ Cardigan go to the Spa ; a very sudden reso
lution, yet I believe it will take place ; I believe
you think so too. Mrs. Herbert hopes you will
not be brought up by a warrant from my lord
chief justice, as Mr, M  ^ has been. My
opinion is, if you do not make as much haste as
your affairs give leave, you will be visited by a
more dreadful ofiicer than any the law produces
— an incensed wife.

* Mr. Chetwynd had now left Mr. Berkeley, and proceeded
to Stafford, where he was elected to the new parliament.
Probably the Dowager Lady Cardigan, Lady Elizabeth
Bruce, eldest daughter of Thomas, Lord Aylesbury.
2 Mr. Meynell, as appears from the following letter.

-1741— 185

LADY SUFFOLK TO MR. BERKELEY.
Marble Hill, MV. Berkeley's dressing-
room, April 23, 1741.
I GOT here yesterday at three o'clock. Mrs.
Pitt came with me ; and Miss Hobart arrived
about eight, extremely pleased with her ex
pedition and the politeness of the Duke of Dor
set, Lady Vere, &c. I had left John Porter to
wait till the post came in, and about ten I re
ceived two letters from you, one of the 18th i,
from Stilton, the other of the 20th % from Lin
coln. I was glad to find poor '^Harriot was not
forgot, and I am now resolved to be very good.
I have had no pain these two days, and do not
design to mention the word pain during your
absence, and reserve all complaints till I have
you present to see how they operate upon you.
Mr, Meynell was the name that puzzled you
and your fellow-travellers ; but I am as much
in the dark, and as desirous to be enlightened
what it was Mr. V{ulteney) suspected, and the
Heydon wives never complain of. Pray instruct
me. I hope your ramble will divert you; the

' These letters do not appear. Mr. Berkeley had, it ap
peared, left Heydon for town ; but was obliged, by an unex
pected opposition, to return thither.
"¦ Herself.

186 —1741—
other business of your journey, as I am informed,
is not likely to do it. Your opposers left London
on Sunday last, but I hope you got to Heydon
before them. I designed a long letter, and my
little girl would have been a copious subject,
but the post is just going, that is, it is six o'clock.
Which of my children did you design to bless ?
I hope both, for really both deserve it. Mrs.
Pitt's compliments, and my duty, affection, in
clination, and interest, make me, my dear.
Yours, &c.
H. S.

LADY SUFFOLK TO MR. BERKELEY.

Marble Hill, Friday, April 24, [1741.]
Though I am very fond of this place, I do
allow it will not afford much for your amuse
ment at a distance ; and shall plead this as my
undoubted right to be more dull (if that is pos
sible) than when I wrote from London. I pass
my hours as much to my satisfaction as I ought
to expect when you are in Yorkshire, for my
three ^ children flatter me all the day, and you
know I love flattery ; besides I am in perfect

' Probably she reckons Miss Pitt as one ; Master and Miss
Hobart were the others.

—1741— 187
health, and not much out of humour, which are
great helps to being pleased. I am afraid Mrs.
Pitt will leave me next week, for the time for
her journey draws near, if the king's resolution*
holds ; but this seemed doubtful when I left
the town. Lady Cardigan and Mrs. ^ Pitt go on
board Sir Charles Wager, but the Duke and
Duchess of Bedford * in their own ship, which
is a project I do not much admire. Saturday noon.
No letter from you, I am not angry, my
dear, but much disappointed. Mr. Chetwynd
and Mr. Grenville are just come in ; the first
called at our house, but lost his labour, so I
must hope I shall get two letters next post day.
Mr. Chetwynd bids me tell you that the writ
for Heydon will be at York on the 30th. The
House is up to-day, and the parliament to be
dissolved on Monday. He says the king will
wait for news from Admiral Vernon, and to see
the success of some elections. I wish yours was
over to all your satisfaction. I expect ^ Mr.
George Grenville to take a bed with Mrs. Pitt
* Of going abroad — which it did. His majesty sailed for
Holland on the 6th of May.
' See ante, page 1^4.
^ John, fourth Dulce of Bedford, and Gertrude Gower,
daughter of Lord Gower.
* Next brother to Lord Temple, of whom some account
' will appear hereafter.

188 —1741-
or Miss Hobart to-night, but he leaves us to
morrow to go to his election. Long Legs*' keeps
out of the country till two days before his
comes on, God bless my dearest life. All at
the Bath are well, and so they are at Marble
Hill. Admiral Vernon is named upon a court list
for the city'; and in revenge » Mr. WiUiam Pul
teney and Admiral Vernon are named on the
country list for Westminster,
Sir Thomas Lyttelton^ is undoubtedly out of
the admiralty, and is not to be in parliament.
Lord Glenorchy^ is to have his place ; Mr. Clut-
terbuck is to be in the treasury, and Mr. Thom
son to succeed Mr. Clutterbuck.

" I suspect that this means Mr. Richard Grenville, after
wards Lord Temple.
'' The popularity of Admiral Vernon was at this moment so
great, that he was actually elected for Rochester, Ipswich, and
Penryn. He was set up also for the city of London, where
he was beaten by 2000 votes 5 and in Westminster, where
he was beaten by 400.
^ A mistake : Mr. Edwin was Admiral Vernon's unsuccess
ful colleague in Westminster.
s Sir Thomas, fourth baronet, and father of George, first
Lord Lyttelton. He died in 1751.
* John, eldest son of the second Earl of Breadalbane, Knight
of the Bath, master of the horse to the princesses, envoy to
Denmark. He was now made a lord of the admiralty, as was
Mr. Edward Thomson. Mr. Clutterbuck had been secretary
to the lord-lieutenant of Ireland.

.—1741— 189
WILLIAM PITT, ESQ. (afterwards Eari of Chatham) TO
LADY SUFFOLK.

(P. 150.) Stow, July 30, 1741.
MADAM, I SHOULD have thanked your lady
ship for the honour of your note by the post of
Tuesday, if the numberless arduous occupations
of groom of the bedchamber * in waiting had
allowed me time. Give me leave to do it now,
and to say nothing can equal your solicitous
attention to whatever concerns your friends.
I cannot conceive what reasons the lady^ we
talked of gives, or how she imagines the scheme
in question is absolutely against my opinion.
She sent for me when I was in town last week,
to ask me if what she heard of my ^ sister's de
sign was true. I said it was ; that I thought
it absolutely necessary for her health, and that
you had procured her such recommendations in

' When Sir Robert Walpole dismissed Mr. Pitt from his
( cornetcy of horse, the Opposition, that is, Frederick, Prince of
Wales, compensated him by the place of groom of his bed-
( chamber, which he held from 1737 to 1745.
Some lady who seems to have a right to inquire into
Mrs. Pitt's proceedings; perhaps the Princess of Wales.
=¦ Miss Anne Pitt.

190 _]741—
France, as would settle her there in the pro-
perest manner. It is astonishing she could give
herself the trouble to imagine my reasons for
this scheme before she had talked to me, and
much more so afterwards. But I will not won
der any more at whatever that wonder of the
world thinks fit to say or do : be her incon
sistency towards her friends ever so great, it
will surprise me no more than your ladyship's
constant goodness and attentions to them. My
most humble services to Mr. Berkeley and Miss
Hobart. I am, &c. W, Pitt.

WILLIAM PULTENEY, ESQ, TO THE HON. GEO.
BERKELEY.

[Vol. i. p. 200.]

London, Nov. 24, 1741.
DEAR SIR, I HAVE not troubled you with any
letter since you have been at Bath ; my whole
time having been employed with lawyers in pro
secuting an information in Westminster Hall,
or pursuing evidence to support your petition '
' For Heydon.

—1741— 191
in parliament. I think I have at present got
isuch plain and positive proof, that there cannot
be the least doubt of your success. Mr. Mur-
ray2, Mr. Bootle', and every one else that I
have consulted, are clearly of the same opinion.
We have detected the whole scene of villanous
corruption ; and many of your antagonist's own
voters are willing to confess it, and give evi
dence against all the rest. We have positive
proof of above threescore persons that received
;the ten pounds a man to vote for Robinson and
Chute ; but I must not in a letter disclose any
thing further, I have sent you the petition,
drawn up in general terms ; which, when you
have signed and returned to me, * Lord Mont
rath will sign likewise : but he is at present out
of town, though, should he come, as he is ex
pected, before the going out of the post, I will
get him to sign it first. Whether you will
think proper to come to town yourself, and so
licit your friends, relations, and acquaintance
to hear it at the bar of the house, and give it

° Afterwards Lord Mansfield.
•'' Afterwards Sir Thomas, and chancellor to the prince.
See vol. i. p. 342.
¦* Algernon Coote, Earl of Montrath. He sat for Heydon
in the parliament of Great Britain. He died in 1744.

192 --1741—
an early day, or whether you will only write to
them, I leave to you to do as your judgment
directs or your health requires. To be sure it
would be better if you were upon the spot ; but
I fancy it may do without, for I have found
hardly any of my own acquaintance under the
least difficulty of promising me their assistance,
though never such stanch courtiers in other
respects. I hope Lady Suffolk is the better for the
waters. It is now six weeks since you left
London, so that she must have drank them
pretty near long enough.
The whole spirit of the affair will depend on
getting it heard at the bar ; write therefore
strongly to every body you think proper to so
licit, but be sure such a favour is more easily
obtained by a personal application. I am. Sec.
Wm, Pulteney.
Eight o'clock at night, — I have just an an
swer brought me that Lord Montrath will not
be in town till Thursday,

— 1742— 193
MR. GEORGE GRENVILLE TO LADY SUFFOLK
AND MR. BERKELEY.'

[Next brother to Richard, Earl Temple, and father to the first
¦* Marquis of Buckingham. He M'as born in 1712; appointed
a lord of the admiralty in 1 744, and of the treasury in 1 747 ;
treasurer of the navy, and a privy counsellor, in 1754;
secretary of state, and first lord of the admiralty, 1 762 ; first
lord of the treasury, and chancellor of the exchequer, 1765.
For his character as prime minister, and an eloquent and
impartial exposition of his merits and defects, we gladly
refer to Mr. Burke's speech on American taxation, in 1774,
of which we shall venture to extract one or tVvo sentences.
" Mr. Grenville was a first-rate figure in this country.
" With a masculine understanding, and a resolute heart,
" he had an application undissipated and unwearied. He
" took public business not as a duty he was to fulfil, but as
" a pleasure to enjoy. If he was ambitious, I will say this
" for him, that his ambition was of a noble and generous
" strain. It was to raise himself, not by the low politics
" of a court, but to win his way to power through the
" laborious gradations of public service, and to secure him-
" self a well earned rank in parliament, by a thorough
" knowledge of its constitution, and a perfect practice in all
"¦ its business." — Mr. Grenville died in 1770.]

" Argeville, Sept. 14, 1742.
Notwithstanding the monstrous behaviour
of Mr. Berkeley and Lady Suffolk to me, in
' This letter seems to have been addressed to Miss Hobart
and Miss Tracy, at Marble-Hill, though really intended for
Mr. Berkeley and Lady Suffolk.
X Lord Bolingbroke's seat in France, near Montereau-
VOL. 11. O

194 —1742—
turning me out of doors, nay, out of the king
dom too, and then telling'me that I should not
have a word to say for myself, and that if I
attempted it, they would burn my letters un
opened, yet I must own myself extremely
obliged to them for not extending their prohi
bition still further, and by that means depriving
me of this pleasure. But though I have nothing
to answer for with regard to them, yet as to
you I cannot say I expressly recollect that you
ever gave me leave to write to either of you,
and consequently not to both, which is, in every
light, just double the impertinence. However,
as I am now happily got into a land of universal
liberty, I would not constrain myself; and be
fore you presume to condemn me, I insist to be
tried by the laws of this kingdom, whether there
is any one man in it who would not make use of
half so good a pretence to write to you. Made
moiselle' must have known the truth of this
whilst she was here, and I cannot think it un
likely, that the fertile vales, nay, even the barren
hills of * Gloucestershire, may have produced
some examples of it.
fault- Yonne, a small town in the neighbourhood of Fontaine
bleau. ' Miss Hobart.
* An allusion to Miss Tracy, probably one of the daughters
of the fifth Viscount Tracy, whose principal seat was in Glo-
cestershire.

— 1742— 195
After this preface, the next thing of course is
to tell you how near dying I am ; which, after
the misfortunes that my banishment must have
occasioned me, I ought to be able to give you a
very satisfactory account of : but, unhappily for
me, I think myself obliged to own the truth,
which is, that I am much further from dying
(either in the real or poetical use of the word)
than I was in England, But on the other hand,
except these two or three last days, I cannot
say that I have lived ; having been extremely
tired of every thing but the sun, who indeed
has been a very faithful and warm friend to me;
and it is singly out of my regard to him that I
shall quit the place where I now am to-morrow,
to be still nearer him. My brother *Jemmy,
who is very knowing in these matters, always
assured me that my illness was owing to drinking
the waters after you two had fired the combus
tible materials of them ; and indeed I am apt
to believe him, since I find, notwithstanding
the climate, that wine here is not so heating as
water in England : for which reason, as soon as
the hot weather is over, I flatter myself with
being able to return to England.

* Jg,mes, the fourth son, born February, 1715, father of
Lord Glastonbury.
O 2

196 —1742—
Lord John Johnstone and Mr. Mackenzie^
came to Paris the day before I left it: the
former seems to be in the last stage of a con
sumption, and I am much afraid will never
come back again, nor perhaps be able to con
tinue his journey to the south of France, where
he intends to go as soon as he can. *Miss
{Anne) Pitt I found here, who seems pretty
well, because she is extremely happy with Lady
Bolingbroke, who is equally so with her ; and
indeed her situation here is too agreeable and
convenient in every light for her to think of
changing it by taking a long journey to a town
in any of the provinces : and as this was not
part of her scheme before my arrival, nor could
reasonably be so, I must not think of seeing her
except upon my return for England, when my
Lord and Lady Bolingbroke have given me
leave to take Argeville in my way. This is the
only mortification I have met with since my
being here, except that Mr. Berkeley seems to
be a formidable rival to me with Lady Boling-

' A posthumous son of the second Marquis of Annandale,
bom June 3, 1 725,
' Probably James Stuart Mackenzie, brother of Lord Bute,
of whom more hereafter.
' Anne Pitt, sister of the great Lord Chatham, one of the
maids of honour. See infra, p, 232.

—1742— 197
broke. However, I dare venture to execute my
orders, and to make her compliments, and those
of the rest of the company here, to the inha
bitants of the Grotto, which, by the by, I hope
goes on prosperously.
Now I have performed my commission, I have
nothing else to say either to Mr. Berkeley or
Lady Suffolk, because they have used me so that
I cannot say all, except only to tell them that
their design to mortify me has not succeeded:
for in spite of all they can say or do, I will be
vain enough to think that they have been most
extremely good to me ; nay, to say so too, and
to boast that I am to all the inhabitants of the
said Grotto, and to those that lay their lazy
limbs upon the lazy sofas of the greenhouse, a
most faithful and most obedient, &c,
George Grenville.

MR. GEORGE GRENVILLE TO LADY SUFFOLK.

[In answer to a letter which does not appear.]
Dijon, Nov. 25, 1742.
Your ladyship begins and ends your letter
with picking a quarrel with me, in order to ex
cuse your using me so unmercifully. But as I

198 —1742—
know my innocence, I shall take care not to
give into it. I own I have formed a kind of
plan to return home, in order to justify myself,
which I find great difficulty in doing at this
distance. Besides, I can give you one-and-
twenty good reasons for it : the first of which
is, that I do assure you in the most serious
manner, that I cannot afford to live abroad
longer. Perhaps your ladyship may give me
the same answer as the Prince of Cond6 did
to a governor of a town who alleged one-and-
twenty good reasons for not saluting him with
the artillery of the place ; the first of which was,
that he had no guns : upon which the Prince
was good enough to excuse him all the rest. If
your ladyship should not be so favourable to
me, Mr. Berkeley, who has not escaped so
' cheap, will be kind enough to tell you the
others. This, madam, is my plea, and such a one as
I hope will obtain the permission you threaten
to refuse me, because the learned in the laws all
agree that from necessity there is no appeal.
And supposing that there was none from your
ladyship's commands, and that my zeal to per
form them made nothing impossible for me ; yet

' He mean& that he had written more in detail to Mr,
Berkeley,

—1742— 199
I flatter myself you would not think it proper
to exert so extraordinary a power upon this
occasion. Will you give me leave to tell you,
that you do not consider that without you, by
this time I should not have had it in my power
to do either well or ill, and consequently that
you are more interested than you are aware of
in my doing what I ought to do. If the world
should ask me why I choose to wear a kerchief
at this time, I could answer more truly than
*Ligarius does in Julius Caesar, that I am not
sick, and consequently have no pretence not to
throw it off. Besides, if I am doomed to wear a
kerchief for some time, and to expiate my sins
by wandering in the desert before I am settled
in the promised land, why should not I choose
any other season for that expiation butjust the
jiresent, when I shall be thought to do it only
for having too great a devotion to the golden
calf? In short, madam, I should not know
what to say for myself; nay, what is of more
consequence, I should not know how to justify
your ladyship for giving yourself so much
trouble for a subject so little deserving it. Let
me use another argument, which your own

» BriHus. O what a time have you chose out, Ligarius,
Go wear a kerchief! Would you were not sick !
Ligarius. I am not sick, if Brutus have in hand
Any exploit worthy the name of honour !  Jul. Cms.

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letter suppli^ me with. You tell me, madam,
that I could be of some use to you : and that is
a pleasure which I cannot quit to ^ poor Jemmy.
Besides, out of pity to him, as he must be over-
burthened with the infinite fatigue of those
great affairs, I ought to relieve him.
Mr. Berenger has left me above this month,
so that in all likelihood your ladyship will have
seen him long before this letter can reach you.
To him I appeal for the truth of the account I
have given of myself and the place I was in ;
and if his testimony should be suspected, I refer
to another which I cannot be supposed to have
influenced ; and that is the fourth volume of
Madame de Sevign6's Letters, where there are
several letters giving an account of the air of
Provence, and the opinion of all the French
physicians with regard to the effects it may have
upon those who are subject to any disorders of
the breast or lungs. Add to this the advice of
the physicians at Paris and at Argeville before I
went thither, and I believe your ladyship will
think I did right to leave the south of France.
What then can I do ? The road to Italy over the
Alps, at this season of the year, when the snows
are falling, is impassable without undergoing
greater hardships than would be thought prudent

^ His brother. See ante, p, 195.

—1742— 201
for me to venture upon ; and as the air of Paris
and the northern parts of France is not so ma
terially different from England as to justify my
staying there when I have no complaint (which
is the case at present), nothing therefore remains
for me to do but to return home and consult my
health there, which I will certainly do in every
particular, because it is at least of as much con
sequence to me as my life is, and because it will
be the greatest happiness to me to think that I
owe so much of it to your ladyship.
I am extremely sorry for the accident of your
having sprained your leg, though I hope it is well
again long before now. I beg my best compli
ments to Miss Tracy and Miss Hobart;* but
though I think their correspondents very happy,
I had no design of procuring myself that plea
sure at the expense of spraining your hand. I
wish you may not think by this letter that I have
a design to spoil your eyes ; for which reason
I am determined not to extend this half-sheet,
though I have scarce room enough to assure your
ladyship in the fewest words that I am, &c»
George Grenville.

* See ante, p. 1 93.

202 —1744—
THE HON. JOHN HOBART TO LADY SUFFOLK.

[The Hon. John Hobart, afterwards second Earl of Bucking
hamshire, born in 1 724. These letters were probably written
during a visit which Lady Suffolk had sent her nephew and
niece to make to their maternal grandfather, Mr. Britiffe,
in 1744.]

Tuesday, [1744.]
dear madam. Since we have been at Norwich, I
have seen almost every letter my sister has
sent you ; and, as it is evident, by your writing
twice to her and not once to me, that you pre
fer her style to mine, I shall try for the future,
if possible, to flatter you as much as she does,
and will constantly tell you that I like every
thing I ought to like, and dislike every thing
I ought to dislike. The poor girl has lately
fallen into a very odd way : for about two
days ago she took a gardener in a black waist
coat for a rat, and immediately after, fancied
she was turned into a pine-apple. This was
really vapours, and not affectation : for there
was nobody present at that time but your humble
servant. She has taken upon herself to give
you an account of what passed yesterday, so I
shall not mention a syllable about it.
In your letter to her, by way of making me
amends for not writing, you bestowed the gentle
epithet of " saucy whelp " upon me, I am sorry

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to say, that your behaviour has convinced me,
that when people have once got the character of
being well-bred (by eating with their fingers,
never drinking to any body, never taking leave
when they go out of an assembly, never being
out of countenance, even when they ought to
be so, calling modesty mauvaise honte, and im
pudence a good address) they think they have a
patent for being impertinent with impunity,
and that every thing they do is polite, because
they are esteemed so by that insignificant sect
of people who style themselves fashionable, I
must indeed own, that I hope soon to be one of
that insignificant sect : but until they will take
me into their number, I will enjoy the noble pri
vilege which every free-born Englishman claims,
of abusing those I envy.
But, my dear Lady Suffolk, let me entreat
you not to indulge in that scurrilous way of
writing. You may get a habit of it, which in
the end may be disagreeable, even to yourself.
For my part, as you have already frequently ex
perienced my good-nature, I do not care if I
give one more proof of it, by excusing this :
but do not offend any more in the same way ;
or at least, if your resolution is too weak to
get over this style, date your letter for the
future from the Gun, at Billingsgate.
Thine, as thou usest him, J. H.
I pity Mr, Berkeley.

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MR. HOBART TO LADY SUFFOLK.

Tuesday, May 22, [1744.]
DEAR MADAM, I AM going to undertake a task not
altogether so difficult as those which Eurystheus
(who must have been a Berkeley) imposed upon
Hercules, but full as disagreeable as any of
them ; viz, to write to you. I must stuff a
letter full of praises, of which every sensible
creature knows you do not merit the least part,
and must try to persuade you upon paper that
I love you prodigiously, when I have full as
contemptible an opinion of you as you deserve.
However, your husband will chastise you for
your errors sufficiently in this world; and a
Supreme Being will in all probability take care
of you in the next. Your faults are obvious
and palpable to every one : your virtues it would
be very difficult to count, as — each day discovers
new. After this, it would be vain to assure
you that I love you ; as my honesty has thrown
off the mask of flattery, and compelled me to
disclose the real opinion I have of you.
You will certainly conclude from my manner
of writing that I am mad ; indeed, my head is
a little turned : but you have already overlooked
so many of my failings, that this may very
easily be passed over with the rest. Methinks

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it would be a very proper employment for those
few happy mortals who have no faults of their
own to excuse, to study excuses for those of
others. The beginning of the epistle, if not agreeable,
will at least be new to you. You have hardly
yet ever received a letter but silver-tongued
praise sweetened each line. Pope and Swift for
you laid by satire, and joined for once in pane
gyric ; but now, when ink-horns have been
drained, when language has been almost ex
hausted in telling you a thousand different ways
that you are the best woman in the world, it
surely will almost please you to hear you are
the worst ; particularly when it comes from one
whom you are sensible cannot think so. What
an uncommon genius is mine ! It is obvious to
every fool when he receives a favour to idolize
his patron ; to pillage gods and heroes of attri
butes to adorn his monster, and give merit to
that which never had any. I scorn to tread
those vulgar paths, or take such methods of
thanking you for the favours you have lavished
on me. Therefore, instead of praising, I sat
down determined to abuse you ; but my real
sentiments broke through this forced disguise,
and my intended libel is turned into a disjointed
panegyric. I will therefore conclude this te
dious preamble, this gentleman-usher of the let
ter of business, by assuring you, that though I

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have had such ill success in attempting it, it is
much easier to abuse than to flatter you.
Mr. Britiffe sent for us yesterday into his
study, (as my sister has told you in hers,) and
assured me that he would make what addition
to my allowance you should think necessary,
and told me I should never want money whilst
I was prudent. * Lord Hobart came over here
this morning, and stayed about two hours. He
has invited us to dine with him at Blickling on
Thursday, He mentioned nothing of carrying
us back to London ; so that in all probability
we shall return as we came. Mt, Britiffe talked
to him of my going abroad, which he treated as
a ridiculous scheme ; but Mr. Britiffe seems
determined to follow your advice absolutely in
relation to both my sister and me. Upon my
telling him that I was sorry to be burthensome
to him, he said that it was the same thing to
him ; that he should only have the less to leave
me at his death. He does not seem to disap
prove of my going abroad; but hinted that he
expected to hear from you upon these heads.
He is excessively fond of us both ; and Mrs. Bri
tiffe expresses great regard; they almost dote
' His father. Beatson's Chronological List of Peerages
places the patent of the earldom of Buckinghamshire under
the date of 1 743 . This mistake is unaccountable : all the other
authorities place it under 1746.

— 1744— 207
upon my sister, who takes great pains to be
agreeable to them. Let me hear from you soon,
if possible. I will write again the next post.
Pray make my compliments to Mr. Berkeley.

MR. HOBART TO THE HON. GEO. BERKELEY. Sunday.
DEAR SIR, As Lady Suffolk, by neglecting writing
to me, has convinced me how cheap she holds
my correspondence, and consequently how un
worthy she is of it, I shall for the future favour
only those with it who know how to value it, and
duly acknowledge the pleasure they receive from
my writings. You have sense, you have taste ;
you had the advantage of being educated first
at Westminster, and afterwards at Cambridge ;
you have a high opinion of my understanding,
which is a sufficient proof to me that you have
a good one. I once thought that silly woman
who has the honour to call you husband had
been free from at least the more glaring foibles
of her sex : I almost loved woman for her sake,
and thought the bitter apple began to digest,
and that, in fine, they might attain to a sagacity
equ3,l to that of the lords of the creation. But,
alas 1 how is she fallen ! There was a time when

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she would have been thankful even for a line
from me; but she shall gormandize no more
on my golden apples. No : she shall feed on
garbage, and chew the scraps that the Gren-
villes, and Pitts, and such like, send her; the
cold viands of poUtics ; the half-picked bones
of a debate. ' If I was to stay in Norfolk
long enough, I dare swear you would convince
me by writing every post of your gratitude ;
but as you will now have no opportunity of
doing it, I shall charitably conclude you would
if you had. I shall for the future confound
Lady Suffolk with the rest of her illiterate sex,
and conclude, from her having at last undeceived
me, and discovered her bad taste, that no woman
can have a real good one. When they are hand
some, they have just sense enough to make men
ridiculous ; when they are ugly, they have suf
ficient eloquence to expose one another.
Lest you should think I only rail because I
am piqued, and that these are the pangs of de
spised love, I shall say no more upon this sub
ject, which, though in general I despise, in some
particulars I must confess I love to dwell upon.
Sir, I honour you,
John Hobart.

• Before the public journals were permitted to give such full
and early reports of the debates as they have latterly done,
members of parliament were in the habtt of obliging their
distant friends with epistolary notices of the debates.

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MR. GEORGE GRENVILLE TO LADY SUFFOLK.
[Vol. ii. p. 193.]

Chandois-buildings, Bath, April 1 S^A 748.
Your ladyship may perhaps have heard before
this time, that my ^ fellow-traveller and I arrived
here safely on Saturday se'nnight, without any
memorable adventure to distinguish our jour
ney, or any kind of distress to dignify it. We
came a very gentle trot all the way, and have
continued the same hum-drum pace ever since
our arrival ; so that I have no very lively account
to give of ourselves. But I shall begin with
telling you, that we have both drank the waters
five or six days ; that my sister is visibly much
the better for them in every respect, and that
they agree with her extremely. As to myself,
I think I feel more benefit from them to-day
than I have yet done ; which I attribute to the
weather's being a little milder, and to my not
having braved the winds of Clerkendown, as I
have hitherto done, in search of exercise on
horseback. Instead of which, I went on peace
ably in the postchaise, and shall confine myself
' Probably his sister Hester, married in 1754 to William
Pitt (Lord Chatham,) and mother of the second Lord Chatham
and the second William Pitt.
VOL. 11. P

¦^10 —1748—
to that till the spring-season begins, and the
hills are free from snow.
I cannot brag much of the variety of my ac
quaintance and amusements here ; both may be
very easily described in the space of this letter,
without making it of an unusual size, if I add
nothing^^ore to it. My morning companions
at the pump and in the neighbouring coffee
house consist of ^ Lord Thanet, " Lady Bath,
* Lady Bab, Montague, * Mrs. Edwin, ® Sir Wm.
Yonge, and General Pulteney,
'' Lord Pembroke came out for the first time
yesterday, and looks very well. ® Lady Win
chelsea and ^Mr. and Mrs. Finch come out but
seldom in a morning : the latter has inquired of
me after you several times ; and by that means
I should certainly have picked up an acquaint-

' Sackville, seventh Earl of Thanet, born 1683, died 1753.
' Jane Gumley, wife of Mr. Pulteney, now become Earl of
Bath. * Lady Barbara, fifth daughter of George, second Lord
Halifax. " Probably the lady of Mr. Charles Edwin, M. P. for West
minster. " See vol. i. p. 342.
' See ante passim.
' MissPalmer,daughterof Sir Thomas Palmer, ofWingham,
second wife, in 1738, of Daniel, seventh Earl of Winchelsea.
5 Probably the Honourable John Finch, Lord Winchelsea's
second brother, and his wife Elizabeth Younger. He died
in 1763, and she in 1762.

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ance with her, but Lady Winchelsea seems to
avoid speaking or mixing with any body, and
they are always together. I have been out but
once at the rooms, which were as full as they
could hold ; but I saw nobody whose face I had
ever beheld before, except Mr. and Mrs. Finch,
Lady Winchelsea, and Mr. ^Damer, whowere at
whist ; and Sir William Yonge playing at two-
handed cribbage. Mr. Damer went away last
Sunday, and Lord Winchelsea came last night-
In this situation, you will easily believe that I
saw ^ Lord Vere at the coffee-house this morning
with a great deal of pleasure, for my own sake ;
though for his I was very sorry to find that the
Bath was become necessary for him again so soon,
I am just come from him, and he seemed very
well. Mrs. Edwin is more inclined to look out
amusements for the soul than for the body :
however, I made her sing me your favourite
hymn, which is almost equally good for both.
I am willing, I told her, to come to judgment
whenever she calls me. She takes abundant
care of us both, and thinks me in a fair way.
To tempt me farther, she brags of what you
said to her, " that you should envy her happi
ness if you was a queen !" Besides, she hints
' Probably Joseph, created Lord Milton in 1753. He mar
ried, in 1742, Lady Caroline Sackville, daughter of the Duke
of Dorset.
" See ante, p. 173.

212 —1748—
to me that I may one day or other be in afairer
way still.
Pray, how does your ^ charge do ? I am
told that you intend to send to Bath for a
pair of leading-strings and a go-cart. I think
vour prescription a good one ; and yet I could
furnish you with a better from hence to prevent
falling. Suppose you were to send for a guide
from Bath, I hope you will direct your charge
to take care, and never go without one for the
future, since this is a plain indication and direc
tion to her not to go alone, nor to trust for the
future to such supports.
I told your ladyship before, that when I go
out in the post-chaise my sister goes with me,
and we are upon this account distinguished in
the Bath Journal, in the list of the company
here, by the style and title of Mr. and Mrs.
Grenville, I thought it proper to notify my
marriage to you when it is become thus public.
Lord * Vere tells me that he left you pretty well,
and better then you had been a good while.
I flatter myself that this account is a true one.
How happy would it make me to have it con
firmed ! but which way shall I bring that to pass?
Can I any way tempt " Lady Dorothy to write

' I suspect he means Miss Anne Pitt. See infra, p 232.
* See ante, p. 173.
' LordHobart having been created Earl of Buckinghamshire,
Mrs. Howard's niece was now become Lady Dorothy.

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me three lines to tell me so? I a'm afraid I
must owe it all to her goodness if she does, and
not to my temptation ; because she knows al
ready how much I am at her command, and that
she has my best wishes for the success of every
thing that may be pleasing to her.
I begin to perceive that I have written you a
very long letter ; but you have drawn it all upon
yourself by desiring to hear of me. I told you
that my amusements might be described in the
space of a letter, and it is very true ; for they
consist almost entirely in receiving a good ac
count of those that I have left behind me, and
in the real pleasure it gives me to write to you,
and take every opportunity of assuring you
(when I cannot be stopped) how sensible I am
of your goodness to me in every instance; and
how truly and unalterably I am. Sec.
George Grenville.

LADY BETTY GERMAINE TO LADY SUFFOLK.
' [Vol. i. p. 31.]

Nov. 18, 1748.
I HAVE for some time designed myself the
pleasure of breakfasting with my dear Lady
Suffolk ; but the idlest people have always

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most to do : for they make a business of what
others make nothing of, and that is just my case;
for no morning have I been able to get out, be
cause of my nothings. Thank God, *Mr. Pointz
is much better, and able to walk about his room
last night : and thank God too, worthless ^ Hervey
Aston is dead ; which may be a means to save
his son and three daughters from entire beggary.
I have lately seen the person who inquired for
another what Lady Dorothy's fortune was to be;
and on expressing my wonder, that I had never
heard of them since, I was told point blank, that
nothing less than twenty thousand pounds down
would do for the gentleman. I could not help
thinking that if so, the gentleman either had a
small cumbered estate, or was not much in love
with one I thought very desirable ; but which is
the case I could get no answer, only it would
not do.
Lord Sussex and Lord Cathcart are gone on
their hostage employment ^ excessively happy

' The Right Honourable Stephen Pointz, governor of Wil
liam Duke of Cumberland.
^ The Rev. Henry Hervey, third son of Lord Bristol, who,
on his marriage with the eldest sister and heiress of Sir
Thomas Aston, took the name of Aston. The best that can
be said for him is that his intellects were probably not sound.
= By the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, it was provided (fol
lowing the obsolete precedent of a very different age) that the
king of Great Britain should, immediately after the retification.

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with it, though I do not find they have more
than 1000/. each to bear their charges. I wonder
therefore they should be so eager for it, it being
at their own pressing request that they were
sent. Lord Vere came from Hanworth last Sunday
a good deal out of order ; but, thank God, he is
much better now. Lady Vere has her flying
complaints too. Lord and *Lady Berkeley are
come up for the prince's birth-day, are both
very well, but go back on Monday, I am, &c. E.G.

send two persons of rank and distinction to reside in France
till Cape Breton and the other conquests of the war should
be restored; an idle and disgraceful form. Lord Sussex
was Henry Yelverton, the last of his family, and now barely of
age. Lord Cathcart was Charles, the sixth baron. These host
ages were presented to the King of France at Versailles, on
the 27th of November.
* Augustus, fourth Earl of Berkeley, and Elizabeth Drax.
They were married in 1744, and were the parents of the late
earl. He died in January, 1755: she remarried soon after
the late Earl Nugent, and died in 1 792. Lady Berkeley was
lady of the princess's bedchamber.

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LADY VERE TO LADY SUFFOLK.

[Vol. i. p. 316.]

Saturday, [Sept. 1751.]
We have expected to see you every day,
which prevented our thinking of coming to
you ; and now indeed it is impossible : our things
go partly to-night, and partly to-morrow, and
the eternal questions and orders that must be
given keep us in continual employment ; so
my dear Lady Suffolk, unless you think yet of
coming before we go, we can have no chance
of seeing you till our return. Mrs. Pitt * is just
come in to dine with us ; she came from her
lodgings hither, and intends lying there to
night ; so that, unless you are still out of order,
which I hope is not the case, I will not quite
give up the hopes of your coming to town be
fore we go. I have got some things for Miss
Power Ho see; so if you do not come to see for
her, or bring her to see, I will order them to be
sent down after we are gone.

' See irfra, 232. ^ See infra, p. 223-

—1751— 217
Lady Pembroke' owns her marriage in ipm
vate ; but though she was at court yesterday,
she has not yet been presented. Princess *
Emily has had a something, a nothing, a miliary
fever, a rash, a hooping cough, a litt% cold, has
kept her bed, has been an airing, and was yester
day doing the honours at court as usual. It
was thought by some that she coughed after a
most dreadful manner; but others, who were
better acquainted with the nature of the illness,
said it was a mistake.
If you do come. Lady Betty {Germaine) can
entertain you with an excellent discourse be
tween her and Lady Pembroke upon the subject
matter. But I will not say more, for I would
fain have you have many inducements to come
to us, so I hope to add that of curiosity. I am
writing in the dark, so it is time to have done.

^ Mary Fitzwilliam, who had been one of the maids of
honour, and of whom we have seen so much, married, in 1733,
Henry, ninth Earl of Pembroke, who had been one of the lords
of the bedchamber. He died suddenly, 9th of January, 1751 ;
and she remarried, 4th of Sept. 1751, Major Barnard, of the
dragoon guards : she died Feb. 13, 1769.
¦* Second daughter of George II. born in 1711, died in
1786. After her father's death, she resided in the house at
the corner of Harley-street and Cavendish- square, which has
since belonged to Mr. Hope and Mr. Watson Taylor, and her
royal highness mingled a good deal in the society of London.

218 —1751—
as I am only run from dinner before the com
pany, who are now coming ; so God bless you-.
M. V.

LADY VERE TO LADY SUFFOLK.

Abbey House, Bath, Saturday, Oct. 19, [1751.]
As this is the first post since we arrived here,
which was on Thursday evening, I thought you
would be glad to hear that we all arrived safe
and well. We had no misfortunes on the road,
nor nothing remarkable happened. Lord and
Lady Berkeley ' dined with us from Cranford at
the Windmill, and Lord Henry Beauclerk '^ from
Windsor, and Mr. Hunter from Hanworth. We
lay at the Castle Inn at Marlborough on Wed
nesday night, and could not help moaning over
it, as it was an ancient habitation Of the Sey
mours. Lord Northumberland* has let it for

' Augustus, fourth Earl Berkeley, and Elizabeth Drax his
lady. See ante, p. 215.
2 Lord Henry Beauclerk, a colonel in the army, next brother
to Lord Vere, and fourth son of the first Duke of St. Alban's.
He died in 1761.
3 Sir Hugh Smithson, of Stanwick, married Elizabeth,
daughter and heiress of Algernon, seventh Duke of Somerset,
who was the son of the proud duke and of the heiress of the

—1751— 219
twenty-one years : it has been opened about a
fortnight, and curiosity draws multitudes there,
and it is overflowing with company continually.
It is a prodigious large house, and furnished
inn-like, two beds in each room ; hut as the
furniture is new, and mostly washing, it looks
spruce and clean. But what they are the least
to be forgiven for selling, are several old pic
tures, that really look to be good, particularly
one of Henry VI., very young, in his kingly
robes and gown, &c. sitting in a chair. We
propose to bid for it as we go back. The gar
den is greatly gone to ruin, but must have been,
when kept up^ extremely pretty. There are a
wood, a running water, and a very high mount
in it. Would the grandfather Duke of Somer
set have liked to have been told that his grand
daughter would have put his family house to
this use ? Lady Betty does not dare to write
the Duke of Dorset an account of this house,
for fear it should put him in mind that some
time or other it may be thought that * Knowl

Percies. On the death of Duke Algernon, Sir Hugh sucn
ceeded to the earldom of Northumberland : in 1766 he was
created Duke of Northumberland.
* By the death, without issue, of the fourth Duke of Dorset.
and the necessity of dividing the estate between his sisters^
the realisation of this reverie of Lady Vere becomes not imr
probable ; but there was no such excuse for Lord Northumber
land's degradation of the house at Marlborough.

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may make as convenient an inn for Tunbridge
as this does for Bath,
^ Lady Albemarle arrived last night, ate a bit,
dressed herself, and went to the rooms ; such
multitudes as were there, and really not above
one in a hundred that we knew. I got nobody
to play with me ; and Lady Albemarle, Lady
Betty, ^ and my lord ^ played at half-crown whist
with a lady they did not know, who, seeing
their distress, offered her service. It seems she
was Irish, as we afterwards heard, her name
Napper ; so we tell Lady Betty that she smokes
her acquaintance with the lord-lieutenant of
Ireland*. Lord Chesterfield and his ^ son, the Duke and
Duchess of Queensberry, ^ Lord Charles, who
has been very ill here, but is now better, ^ Sir

* Lady Anne Lennox, daughter of the first Duke of Rich
mond, married in 1723 to William Anne, second Earl of Albe
marle. " Lady Betty Germaine.
7 Lord Vere.
• The first Duke of Dorset, at this time lord-lieutenant of
Ireland ; to whose third son. Lord George Sackville, Lady Betty
bequeathed the name and estates of the family into which she
had married.
' Mr. Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield's natural son, the object
of the celebrated letters.
1 Lord Charles Douglas, the Duke of Queensberry's second
son. " Sir J. Cope, the unfortunate hero of Preston- pans.

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John Cope, »Tom Hervey and family, Lady
Mary Powis, and Lady Fanny Tilson, the
* Speaker and family, ^ Mr. and Mrs. Lambe, ^Sir
John Ligonier, Mr. Pitt, I really think are all
that we know amongst the million. Lady Betty
is complimented by every body upon her good
looks ; I really think I hardly ever knew her
better. I suppose you may have heard that my
^ daughter is here, I am extremely sorry it so
happened that we could not see you ; we really
thought, from what Mrs. Pitt said, that as soon
as she was gone out of your house, you would
come for one night, which prevented our' coming
to you ; and so strongly was it in our minds,
that we would not dine abroad on Sunday.
I am afraid * Miss Power will give you fresh
trouble, for I doubt she must buy new^mourn-
' Thomas, next brother of John, Lord Hervey, " well known
for his genius and eccentricities." His wife was Miss Coghlan,
an Irish lady, by whom he left one son. He was born in 1698,
and died in 1775.
* Arthur Onslow, and his lady, Anne Bridges. Their only
daughter, Anne, died on the 20th December this year.
' Probably Matthew Lamb, Esq. of Brockett Hall, created a
baronet in 1 755, father of the first Viscount Melbourne.
® Afterwards LordLigonier. He died in 1770, set. ninety-one.
' Mary, born in 1743, married, in 1762, to Lord Charles
Spencer, second son of the second Duke of Marlborough,
• See infra, p, 223.
» For the Prince of Orange, who died on the 11th of this
month.

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ing upon this occasion, and even have a bom-
bazeen, though I suppose she will wear it but
once ; so that if she could beg, borrow, or steal,
it would be worth her while. I beg you would
order ^ Mrs. Peggy to employ her pen to answer
this, unless you are well in the superlative de
gree ; and likewise that she would let me know
the state of her finances. I have not begun the
waters, as you may know by this long letter.
We are like to have great divisions about the
mourning : some will go in to-morrow, some
the Sunday after, and some not at all, because
my lord marshal has sent no order. As to our
parts, when we can we shall ; but our trunks
are not come as we expected, by tricks of the
carriers ; so we shall be reduced to keep house
for want of necessaries. I am, &c. M. Vere.
All good wishes attend you from her ladyship
and his lordship.

' Probably Miss Power ; see next letter.

-1751— 223

MISS POWER TO LADY SUFFOLK.

[A relation of Lady Suffolk, and perhaps of Lady Vere ; but
I am not able to trace the relationship. I find in Lady
Suffolk's papers the following character of this young lady,
when she was recommending her as a fit attendant for the
Princess Augusta : " Miss P. is very well tempered, of a
" serious, religious turn, reads and writes remarkably well,
" a fine workwoman, very handy, of a cheerful disposition,
" but very modest ; no gossip, has great taste, sensible, I
" mean has common sense, and understands French." Lady
Suffolk calls her her cousin. It seems that this young lady
had at one time attracted the attention of Lord George
Germaine, and their friends had some difficulty in prevent
ing a union between them.]

Leicester House, Oct. 21, 1751.
MADAM, The very first minute I could call
my own I sit down to write to your ladyship.
Mrs. Robertson will tell you what my lodgings
are, and how finished, that I need only say that
it is quite a garret ; but I cannot possibly think
it small ; it is very warm, comfortable, and de
cent, and many happy hours I hope to pass in
it. I have affairs of greater consequence to
communicate, therefore I shall leave this sub
ject, and inform you of other particulars.
By eleven o'clock this morning I was with Mrs.

224 —1751—
Pitt ; ' that I was not there sooner, was owing to
» note she wrote to me in answer to a note of
mine. The - princess came into the room where
Mrs. Pitt and I waited, nobody with her but
her children. She received me most graciously,
and did me the honour to ask me many questions
of your ladyship. Lord and Lady Vere, and
Lady Betty {Germaine.) You will not expect,
madam, that I should tell you how I answered
and behaved, but I hope not extremely ill.
When her royal highness retired, which was in
a few minutes, I was presented to the 'Lady
Augusta. When that ceremony was over, the
princess returned to the same room, and sat for
her picture. She was pleased to talk to me
again for some time, and then asked the Lady
Augusta if she would not carry me into her
apartment. I followed her royal highness and
the •'Princess Elizabeth into their dressing-room.
My opinion was asked if I thought it pretty. I
was then bid to sit, and the Lady Augusta
asked me ten thousand questions. My answers,
I think, were not imprudent, and very true; it
1 See infra, p. 232.
' The Princess of Wales, mother of George III.
' Eldest daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales. Born
1737, married to the Duke of Brunswick 1764, died in Lon
don 1810.
* Second daughter of Prince Frederick; born 1740, died
1759.

—1751— 225
is impossible for me to tell you all, or indeed a
quarter part of what she said. A basket of
flowers was brought to the Lady Augusta, a
present from ^ Prince George. She desired to
know if I loved flowers : on my saying I did,
she took out a very fine nosegay, and gave it
to me. The whole of the behaviour of both
my royal mistresses was extremely gracious. I
must pass over a hundred things they said,
or I shall not have time to finish the letter.
About half an hour after twelve the things
were brought in by a person whom it seems is
under me, but speaks like a lady of the bed
chamber. She has been about the Lady Au-
gusta ever since she was born, and is greatly
considered and indulged on that account. No
Mademoiselle de Chaire appeared, so I hear we
have waitings, but how, I have not yet found
out. The Lady Augusta said she would dress,
and desired me not to be the least hurried or
discomposed. I obeyed. She was pleased to
say I performed mighty well. (I hear since
she told the princess I was very adroit.) The
Lady Ehzabeth I had nothing more to do to than
comb her head, and put on the same cap she
wore before. You will easily believe I was glad
when I had done. Innumerable questions were
* George III.
VOL. II, Q

226 —1751—
again put to me, but in the most obliging man
ner in the world ; among the rest, did I love
birds ? On my answering as I had before done
on the flowers, parrots, parroquets, and a mag
pie were ordered to be brought in to their bed
chamber— (I am to tell you they showed me all
their rooms, which are three, a dressing-room,
bedchamber, and closet for the Lady Augusta,
and told me the history of the pictures) — this
was the occasion of great mirth and entertain
ment for near an hour.
I must not omit telling you the Lady Au
gusta expressed great concern I was not better
lodged, and wondered how I should be able to
endure so bad a room as she feared mine was ;
asked if my servant was there to get my room
aired, and proper for me to go into.
The Lady Elizabeth and I were together till
three o'clock ; then Mrs. Pitt entered, and de
sired to know if she might not take me with her
to prayers, which were going to begin. We
went into the outer room, and there ^Miss
Chudleigh, '^ Miss Dives, ^Miss Moyston, and
* The celebrated Miss Chudleigh, afterwards Duchess of
Kingston. ' Several la^es of this name had been maids of honour to
the queen and princesses.
' Probably Miss Mostyn, younger daughter of Sir Thomas
Mostyn, and sister of Essex Mostyn, wife of the Duke of Rox
burgh.

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Mrs. Jane, the bedchamber-woman, stood. They
all came up to me, and wished me joy, and
then we prayed. I went home with Mrs. Pitt
immediately after prayers, dined and drank
coffee, and then came the garden way back ;
found my toile'tte setting out, and my room in
good 'Order. Mrs. Graydon was the dresser of
my toilette.
As soon as she was gone, I sat down to write
to your ladyship, but had not Written six lines
before I was interrupted by company coming ;
and who should that be but Mrs. Pitt. She is
most inexpressibly obhging to me. She sat
near a quarter of an hour with me, commended
my room and the furniture of it, desired me to
give her compliments to you, and then departed.
By Mrs. Pitt's discourse I am on a pretty high
foot in this house, I will say more of that
when I know more, I have had a message
from Miss Goodrick ; compliments, and she
designs waiting on me very soon. Mrs. Pitt
imagines every body, maids of honour, bed
chamber-women. Sec. will come to see me.
I have written down every action and word
of my own till this minute, I am alone, and
therefore you must be told my thoughts. That
I am very happy, and that I owe that happiness
to you, I need not say ; so that, as it must be
very obvious, I shall put it aside, and next tell
you I feel a satisfaction, a joy inexpressible. Q 2

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When I look round, all that I see within this
room is mine, and I cannot but feel grateful.
And here I must leave my reflections and haste
to the conclusion, or I shall not have finished
this letter in time. Mademoiselle de Chaire has
been to visit me ; hopes to see me at her apart
ment ; shall be happy if she can have an oppor
tunity, or have it in her power to be of any ser
vice to me in any thing I may command her.
Before she left me Miss Goodrick came in,
was vastly my friend and humble servant too ;
hoped I would make Use of her to assist me in
any way she could. They both stayed with me
till I was very heartily tired of them. My
servant not at home, so I could not give them
tea, and they robbed me of a very true pleasure ;
notwithstanding which I was, I hope, very civil
to them; I am sure I meant to be so. They
are both very, very, very fine ladies. I suppose
they design to be intimate with me ; but that
must not be ; but how I shall avoid it I do not
know, I have obeyed you in not regarding either
form or style in my letter. Never was a com
mand before of so strange a nature ; it cannot
be disobeyed, because I cannot express the
sense I have of my obligations to you, or how
very much I am, &c. Margaret Power.

-1752— 229

LADY VERE TO LADY SUFFOLK.

CVol. i. p.316.] Thursday, 1752.
I RECEIVED yours this morning, and can only
say, if you had not been the best woman in the
world this trouble could not have happened to
you ; and if you had not been the wisest woman
in the world you could never have brought it to
so happy a conclusion. May the fair ^ flower,
that you have so carefully and prudently planted
at Leicester House, live and bloom, ever re
membering that it is to you she owes the every
thing she enjoys in this life of happiness, and it
will be her own fault if she does not take care
to secure happiness in the next. I am very
glad Lady Berkeley frighted her with the de
scription of her room, because, by your descrip
tion, she must think she is in a Paradise. She
has not written to me since she was got home,
nor indeed did I expect, after she .sent word the
hurry she was in ; nor have I written to her,
but I will now I am certain she is fixed. It is
not Lady Betty {Germaineys fault that she had
not her watch long ago : Captain Smith under-
' Miss Power.

^230 —1752—
took it; but where he is recruiting nobody
knows. We are all in divisions here about celebrating
the king's birth-day. Nash began a subscription
for a dinner ; one or two unknown signed, but
this would not do ; so- yesterday a new book was
produced, and the Duke of Somerset signed
first, and now every body will think it right to
follow him.
Lady Betty thinks herself in danger of being
- Barnarded by a ^son of Lord Chesterfield;
and indeed I think nobody can blame her, as he
has made such great court to her, and she has
known him so long ; for he invited her to his
ball yesterday, and gave her his place at the
play the day before, and that gave her a desire
to know his name. He is just nineteen, very
lively, and is going to Paris again, if Lady Betty
does not make him sell his commissions
Lady Albemarle desires her best respects to
you. She has seen one of the Lisles this morn-

' Lady Pembroke married (as we have seen, ante, p. 217)
Major Barnard, within a few months after the death of her
lord. Lady Vere hints that it would be scarce more sur
prising if Lady Betty (who had now been forty years a widow)
should run away with young Stanhope.
3 The son, who was the object of the celebrated Letters.
This evidence of his being lively and agreeable is at variance
with the ordinary stories of his dulness and awkwardness.
* As Lady Pembroke had made Major Barnard do.

—1752— 231
ing, who says " Lady Margaret Herbert is per
fectly well, and cured by Ward's drops. Lord
Vere says the Duke of Burgundy's dry nurse is
put into the Bastille for picking up a packet
that was thrown into the child's cradle. She
was poisoned and very ill by smelling it. Lord
Vere says it is a very confused ^ story, but he
expects a clear account of it from you. God
bless you, and give you every thing that this
world can afford to make you happy : — you are
sure of the next. M. Vere.

s Second daughter of the eighth Earl of Pembroke. The
good effect was not very lasting, for she died in this year.
° So it was at firstj^ but it eventually appeared that a Ma
dame Sauve, one of the attendants on the Duke of Burgundy,
an intrigante, desirous of attracting notice by extraordinary
zeal, one day reported to the Duchess of Tallard, the go
verness of the infant prince, that in the crowd admitted to see
the child, she had seen an unknown person throw into the
cradle a parcel, which she produced. The parcel contained
powders, and were of course suspected to be poison ; but on
examination they were found perfectly innocuous ; and on fur
ther inquiry the woman's fraud and its object were put beyond
doubt. She was thrown into the Bastille, where she remained
many years.

232 —1757-

MRS. ANNE PITT TO LADY SUFFOLK.

[Anne Pitt was the eldest of five daughters of Robert Pitt,
Esq. of Boconnoc, eldest son of Governor Pitt. She was
maid of honour to Queen Caroline, and subsequently privy
purse to the Princess-dowager of Wales. She was remark
able in society, even to old age, for a great decision of cha
racter and sprightliness of conversation, and her bons-mots
were celebrated. There are many of her letters in the col
lection, of which a few have been selected for publication,
though it is to be feared that they will not answer the ex
pectation which the tradition of her talents and agreeability
may have excited. She died at her house in Pitt Place,
Kensington Gravel-pits, on the 9th of Feb. 1 780.]

Sens,tJTily 10, [1757.]
dear lady SUFFOLK,
I DESIRED Mr. de la Porte to write to
you the first day he came to me, which was the
first day I began to conceive any hopes of ever
seeing you or any body I loved again. I find
he made a mistake between what I desired him
to say to you and to my ' Lady Cardigan, and
thanked you for a letter I had received from
her, while I could not even answer my brother's,
and while he continued as he began, as soon as
the king had put him in the "^ place he is in, by

' See ante, p. 184. » Secretary of state.

—1757— 233
giving me the strongest and the tenderest proofs
of his affection. ^ Lady Hester's behaviour has
been upon that occasion, and upon every other
since her marriage, beyond what I can give you
any notion of, but by her own letters, which I
have kept, and will show you, and which have
given me a most sincere esteem and friendship
for her. But I was so sunk, and my mind so
overcome with all I have suffered, and I was so
mortified and so distressed, that I do not believe
any thing in the world could have made it pos
sible for me to get out of this country, but my
brother's sending a friend to my assistance, and
choosing so proper a person as Mr. de la Porte
is in all respects. He has known me and my
family for about thirty years, from having been
my * Lord Stanhope's governor : he gives me
the satisfaction of talking to me of some of my
friends, though he told me, to my great morti
fication, that he had not the honour to know
you, and could not answer any one of the hun
dred questions I wanted to ask about you,
neither could he tell me how Mrs. ^Herbert
did.

' Hester, only daughter of Richard Grenville, by the
Countess of Temple, married Mr. Pitt in Oct. 1754.
* Philip, second Earl Stanhope, son of Lucy Pitt, the
writer's sister.
' See vol. i, p. 77.

234 —1757—
I thank God most heartily, my dear Lady
Suffolk, that I am at last coming home to you,
and to some such relations and friends as no
body ever had, I put myself in motion as soon
as it was possible, but was obliged to make
seven days from Lyons to Sens, where I came
very much fatigued, and even with a little fever,
which I did not want, and was too happy to
stop in Mad. de Villette's® house, where 1 found
every sort of comfort with her, and every help
I wanted from her physician, who has restored
her to what one may call health, from the worst
and the longest illness I ever saw any woman
suffer from the same cause that I have imputed
mine to for two years past. What misery I
should have saved myself, my dear Lady Suffolk,
and what a torment to my friends, if I had fol
lowed your advice and my own strong inclina
tion long ago ! But it was not to be, and I was
to go through all the pain of body and mind
that I have suffered, to feel how weak my mind
is, and to prove the virtue and goodness of my
friends, particularly of my brother, who has
always seemed to guess and understand all I
felt of every kind, and has carried his delicacy
so far as never once to put me in mind of what
I felt more strongly than any other part of my
^ Probably a relation of the second Lady Bolingbroke. See
ante, p. 152.

-1757— 235
misfortune, which was, how very disagreeable
and embarrassing it must be to him to have me
in France ''. You may believe I will be out of
it the first minute that is possible, as I am much
the better for the five days I have passed here.
I would not stop a day at Paris, if it was not
absolutely necessary, that we may settle how
and where we are to embark. Mad. de Villette
tells me very confusedly a piece of news which
I am sure I am sorry for, which is, that Mr.
^Chetwynd has lost one of his daughters, and is
under the greatest affliction. If this is so, I
hope he is not far from you, and I beg you will
tell him every thing from me that you know to
be true. I wish I could hope to find all my
friends well and happy. I long to know how
you do, and how Mrs. Herbert does ; and I long
most heartily, my'dear Lady Suffolk, to tell you
once more by word of mouth how faithfully and
affectionately I am yours, A. Pitt.

' During the war which Pitt was pressing against France
with so much vigour and success.
* See ante, p. 152.

236 —1757—

THE EARL OF BUCKINGHAM TO LADY
SUFFOLK.

[In 1756, Lady Suffolk's nephew, whom we have hitherto
known as Master or Mr. Hobart, became, on the death of his
father. Earl of Buckinghamshire. He always signed and
called himself Buckingham.]

Blickling, Aug. 30, 1757. -
DEAR MADAM, The 1 birth- day is over, the company
withdrawn, the blackcaps bandboxed, and the
azure aprons folded, there to remain till fresh
cause of emulation shall drag their beauties
forth. Mrs. Hobart set out in her first sleep
yesterday morning about eight o'clock. Poor
* George passed the few hours he was in bed
between two fires ; for I had lodged the fair
Argentina in the next room to his nuptial bower.
The three were here more brilliant than ever ;
particularly the eldest : he walked through the
ball-room conscious of his worth, the fair tulips
upon either bank fading or blooming as he occa
sionally varied his preference. Upon the whole,
' All this alludes to some family circumstances not now
remembered. » George, his brother and successor, .who martied in May,
1757, Albinia, daughter and co-heir of Lord Vere Bertie.

—1757— 237
the day passed off extremely well ; the ladies
judiciously squeezing just lemon enough into
the negus to prevent it from being fade.
Mrs. Fraigneau has not been very well ; be
tween ham-toast, venison-pasty. Daffy's elixir,
and affectation, she has met with that calamity
which fine women who never breed are hourly
liable to.
Many thanks for your obliging letter. All
our compliments to the young couple.
Your most affectionate nephew,
Buckingham.

MRS. PITT TO LADY SUFFOLK.
[.4«ie, p.232.]
 » Spa, Sept, 5, [1757,]
MY DEAR LADY SUFFOLK,
The letter I wrote yesterday brought
me good luck ; for I received yours of the 14th
of August this morning. What a length. of
time to receive news from those one loves ! but,
however, I now know that three weeks ago
your health was tolerable, though far from being
as I wish it. I am heartily glad of what you
tell me of Mrs. Herbert's health, which has

238 —1757—
given me a great deal of pain since I saw
her. I am very much obliged to all the persons
you tell me are so good to think of me, and to
wish me well ; and as to others, I promise you
not to think of them. If I knew any thing that
would make me tolerably easy in mind and body,
I would do it at any rate ; and when I come to
any resolution I will let you know it.
I never heard of any thing so sudden as my
1 Lord Middleton's distress ; but surely it cannot
be beyond retrieve with such an estate. I pity
« Mrs. Selwyn very much, as I know nobody
who has suffered more misfortunes within a few
years. I have taken another bath this morning;
which I mention by way of telling you the best
of myself, which is, that by my being able to
bear it as I do, I must have gained infinitely as
to my strength. But I must lose it again if I
go on in the way I am in at present. I am per
plexed and embarrassed to know what to do ;
but I will leave the decision entirely to my
doctor, and, as Mr. de Mirepoix is to be here

¦ George, third Viscount Middleton, born 1730, married
Albinia Townsend, sister to the first Lord Sydney of that
&mily, " Mary Farrington, wife of Col. John Selwyn, of Matson,
mother of Mrs. Townsend, and of the celebrated George
Selwyn, and grandmother of Lady Middleton. See vol. i. p.
278.

—1757— 239
soon, I shall expect great comfort and assistance
from him whether I stay here or remove. A. P.

THE EARL OF BUCKINGHAM TO LADY
SUFFOLK.

Sept. 1757.
DEAR MADAM, If the partridge-pie gives you as
much pleasure as your letter did to me, it will
be the best pie that ever was tasted. You do
not indeed mention any thing of your health ;
but there is a cheerfulness in your style which
induces me to flatter myself that you are very
well. Torre del Pazzo (for such we now find by
authentic records to be the ancient name of
the building lately discovered at Blickling,) was
erected by William I. of the Norman line, and as
a residence for an Italian of remarkable wit and
humour, who used by his sallies to enliven the
dull, gloomy disposition of his barbarous court.
He gave him also divers manors in the pleasant
vale that leads from Aylsham to Yarmouth.
The king then married him to a maid of honour,
a young lady of great spirit and facetiousness —
(maids of honour are still the same) — who
brought him a numerous issue, sold all his ma
nors, and broke his heart. His indigent children

240 , —1757—
¦were squandered in various parts of Europe,
and from them are descended all the Harlequins,
Pierrots, Columbines, &c. who so much contri
bute to the diversion and improvement of the
present age. Torre del Pazzo, which was the
name he gave his habitation, signifies, in Italian,
the Fool's or Madman's Tower, I need not
tell your ladyship, that, after passing through
various families, some of the manors, and the
whole tower, are in my possession. It gives me
great concern that it is not in my power to
follow exactly the footsteps of the illustrious
first proprietor. I may indeed, by singular
good fortune, find a maid of honour who will
condescend to sell my manors and break my
heart; but I have too just an opinion of the
measure of my own understanding not to be
sensible, that if she produces Harlequins or
Pierrots, it must be by another father.
Make my compliments to the young lady*
("Miss HothamJ. Let me hear from you when
you can, and believe me
Your most affectionate nephew,
Buckingham.

' Lady Dorothy Hobart married in 1752 Col. Charles Ho-
tham, who afterwards succeeded to the baronetage, and took
the name of Thompson, They had an only daughter, whom
Lady Suffolk adopted, and educated, (as she had done her
mother.) Miss Hotham was probably born in 1 753, and died
' unmarried in 1816.

-1757— 241

THE EARL OF BUCKINGHAM TO LADY
SUFFOLK.

[1757.]
DEAR madam,
It was not my intention to have troubled
you with a letter this post ; but as I know it will
give you particular pleasure to hear that my
regularity and good conduct operate sensibly
upon my servants, I have deferred writing upon
disagreeable business, that I may have leisure
to acquaint you with an event that has lately
happened in this family.
Your ladyship must be fully sensible, from
what you heard during your short stay at Blick
ling, of the disorderly inclinations of poor *Pau-
quet. His passions increased as the fruit ripened ;
nor did they subside, as I flattered myself they
would, upon the approach of winter. The fre
quent complaints of insulted modesty and ter
rified virgins made it necessary for me, about a
week ago, to represent to him in the strongest
manner the impropriety, immorality, and danger
of such proceedings. It hurt me to see that
the latter affected him most.
Upon my return last Friday from Norwich, I
received a letter from a lady in the neighbour-
' His lordship's French valet-de-chambre.
VOL. II. R

242 —1757—
hood, with one inclosed, which had been ad
dressed by Mr. Pauquet to her. In thi.s, after
the due encomiums upon the beauties of her
person, the elegance of her mind, and the
strongest assurances of the most violent passion,
disinterested tenderness, &c. &c. &c. he lays
himself and talents at her feet ; offering to pass
his days with her in that holy state in which
he assures her it is only possible for man and
woman to be truly happy. The lady is by no
means his superior in birth, but happens unfor
tunately to be possessed of near three thousand
pounds ; and therefore, looking down upon
Pauquet from the height of her riches, com
plains to me of his " intolerible insulance, pri-
sumshon, and unpairallil cunfitence," and insists
upon a " ripermand." I have answered in a
most respectful manner, allow his error, but
approve his flame ; in short, make that kind of
excuse for him which a good-natured woman
will receive as an apology for almost any thing.
The future progress of this affair shall be laid
before you. In the mean time, we are all alone,
very well, and most truly and affectionately
Yours, Buckingham.
My sister's X mark.
Our compliments to Miss — tout court!

—1758— 24J

MRS. ANNE PITT TO LADY SUFFOLK.

[Vol. i. p. 232.]

Clifton, June 22, [1758.]
DEAR LADY SUFFOLK,
I HAVE had the pleasure of hearing
of you from a friend of mine who had had a
conversation with you at Marble Hill, and who,
I hope, will have more. I had a mind to con
clude by his letter that you was well, though he
does not expressly say it, and I wish I was sure
of it, * Mrs. Carteret was so sorry for the last
account you wrote of yourself, that she finds
time to be uneasy about you till she hears a
better. I begin to be more in pain for them
than ever, and do not know what to think of my
'^Lady Hotham ; for though she has had no fever
for several days, and has hardly any cough or
spitting, she has an entire loss of appetite, and
grows weaker, and looks worse. Her surgeon
told me yesterday, that he should be very uneasy

' Probably Bridget Carteret, so long maid of honour to
Queen Caroline.
* Probably Frances Thompson, wife of Sir Beaumont Ho
tham, the seventh baronet, and mother of Lady Dorothy Ho-
tham's husband, who was afterwards the eighth baronet,
R 2

244 —1758—
if she did not grow better, and I will tell you
before I seal my letter how she is to-day.
I think I am better in some respects ; but as
nobody thinks a long course of these waters
would be good for me, I shall get to Tunbridge
as soon as I can. I propose leaving this place
next week ; but as I have some complaints that
are not convenient for a courtier, such as pains
in my limbs and swellings in my legs, I shall
try bathing a few days at the Bath, rather than
Buxton, which my brother advised me to since
I have been here ; as thinking, what I believe
to be true, that my disorders come from a want
of perspiration. But I hope Tunbridge will do
me good ; and if it does, I shall be glad to try
one winter with my friends in England before I
go abroad again. But it is impossible for me to
take any resolution till I see the effect of Tun
bridge ; and if the baths do not agree with me,
I shall be there early in July.
They have just sent me word my Lady Hotham
has had a pretty good night, and is pretty well
this morning ; but I shall know more of her in
the afternoon, I hope you like the person who
had the honour to wait upon you, as you seem to
have gained his heart very much. I wish you
may be my Lady 'Huntingdon's rival ; as Lady
' Lady Sclina Shirley, second daughter of the second Earl

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Gertrude * Hotham told me you talked a little
scandal to her. Mrs. Grinfield inquired after
you ; she has taken a little house at Bristol, and
seems very happy. I found no acquaintance
here, and have made none, except ^Miss Talbot,
and ^Miss Carter, who is a sort of learned wo
man that I think poor Lady Margaret 'Herbert
would have liked ; she is as good-humoured and
unaffected as she was, though she happens to
be one of the greatest scholars and one of the
greatest geniuses in England. I beg you only
to send me word how you do ; and for fear it
should miss me, the safest would be to direct to

Ferrars, married, in 1728, to Theophilus, Earl of Huntingdon.
Her enthusiastic patronage of the niethodists is well known.
She died in 1791, aet. 87.
* Lady Gertrude Stanhope, the eldest sister of Lord Ches
terfield, married, in 1 724, Sir Charles Hotham, the fifth ba
ronet, and was the mother of Sir Charles, the sixth, and Sir
Beaumont, the seventh baronets.
* Catherine, posthumous and only child of Edward, next
brother to Lord Chancellor Talbot. She was born in 1720,
and died in 1770. Her friendship with Miss Elizabeth Carter
is well known, and a collection of their letters has been lately
published. 8 Miss Carter was born in 1717, and lived till 1806. Her
long life was sweetened and adorned by learning and by piety,
— by the friendship of those who approached her, and the re
spect of the world at large.
^ See ante, p. 230.

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me at ^Lady Lucy Stanhope's, in the Circus, at
Bath. I am, dear Lady Suffolk, &c.
A, Pitt.
I have seen Mrs. Carteret, who desires her
compliments to you. My Lady Hotham is
weaker to-day ; which I think very bad, though
there is no change for the worse in other re
spects.

MRS. ANNE PITT TO LADY SUFFOLK.

Bath, Aug. 19, [1758.] ,
MY DEAR LADY SUFFOLK,
I AM ashamed to think that I have
been here a week, and have not yet found time
to write the card you ordered me to send you ;
but I have been in such a hurry of diversions,
with pumping my arm and a knee which I had
forgot to speak of, that I have only had time to
rest and do nothing. I do not feel clever, not
even so much so as when you saw me ; but I am
not ill, and I do not know what to think of what
Dr. Oliver says. He came to see me as an old
* Twin-sister of the second Earl Stanhope, born 1714.

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acquaintance, and tells Lady * Lucy Stanhope
and Mrs, ^Trevor, whom we are very happy to
find here, that he is very sure I am gouty, and
should have the gout. He has a mind to make
me drink the Cross-Bath water ; for which rea
son, though I have a very good opinion of him,
I will not consult him as a physician till I have
followed Dr. Shaw's advice, and tried Bristol.
But I must stay here a week longer than I
designed; because I' find it impossible to bear
the fatigue of pumping every day, and I have
at present some days' holidays, which I hope
will do me more good than any thing,
I am heartily pleased with the public ^news :
God grant that it may continue to be good,
especially from * Prince Ferdinand, for the sake
of a person whose health and prosperity I wish
more than I shall ever tell him. My dear Lady
Suffolk, be so good as to send us word xvith truth
that you are perfectly well. My sister has as
sured me that she likes you full as well as Marble
Hill ; but for fear you should take it ill, I will
assure you with truth that she admires Marble
Hill as much as your ladyship does. I beg my
• See ante, p. 246.
" Perhaps Constantia de Huybert, wife of Mr. Robert Tre
vor, afterwards first Viscount Hampden.
^ The account of the capture of Louisbourgh had arrived the
day before.
* Now commanding the allies in Flanders.

!C48 —1758-
respects to ^ Miss Hotham, and my love to old
^ Aza. But I had rather you would forget both
these messages than to forget my most sincere
compliments to Lady 'Gertrude {Hotham) and
Mrs. Carteret. I have a mind, though it is a
little out of season, to wish them all joy of the
marriage; for, upon my word, my joy is not yet
over since I heard it ; and I desire Lady Ger
trude may be told that I had a very great share
in my Lady (Z)oro//z3/) Hotham's education: for
I am sure I told her once of a drawing-master,
and I believe she improved him as well as
herself. I will tell you in my next card how very
pretty the Circus is.

MRS, ANNE PITT TO LADY SUFFOLK.

Bristol, Aug. 26, [1758,]
MY DEAR LADY SUFFOLK,
As I found it impossible to bear the
fatigue of pumping with the disadvantage of
the hot weather, I am come here, where I find
the weather cold enough, and have got a little

5 See ante, p. 240. " Lady Suffolk's dog.
' See ante, p. 245.

—1758— 249
cold, which makes me not quite so well as I
was upon the taking of Louisbourgh. As I felt
a most hearty joy upon the occasion, I hope
you will approve,- and even applaud, my having
given some demonstrations of it. As my brother
has a great many friends at the Bath, I em
ployed one to ask Mr. Mayor if he would ap
prove of my indulging myself in doing what
little I could to add to the public rejoicings for
the success of his majesty's arms. He sent me
word he should take it as a compliment. So I
ordered a bonfire, so placed as to be sure no
bonfire ever was for the beauty, upon a rising
ground before the Circus (where my brother's
house is), ten hogsheads of strong beer round
it, which drew all the company I could desire,
and enabled them to sing " God bless great
George our king" with very good success, with
the help of all the music I c^uld get in the
Circus. The whole town wks illuminated ;
which, as it is the prettiest in the world, was
the gayest thing I ever saw.
I am in love with the place, and have quite
set my heart upon making it my home ; espe
cially since I have seen a house made on pur
pose for me, built by Mrs. ^Trevor, next door to

' See ante, p. 247.

250 —1758—
her and Lady Lucy and Lady Jane ^Stanhope,
and next door but one to my brother's in the
Circus; which is, as far as it is finished, the most
perfectly fine building I ever saw, in the prettiest
situation. Add to this, that Dr, Oliver would
have me try Bath water, and thinks it is my right
to have the gout. My design is to pass a month
at least here, and after that to pump and do
whatever they please at the Bath till the king's
birth-day, where I am determined to go and pay
my duty, if I am able. Then, after the princess's
birth-day, and the commands her royal highness
may have for me at Christmas, I will endeavour
to obtain her leave to return to the Bath. This
is what I wish you may approve, and say you
approve, especially as my gown is very fine, I
know nothing of the company at the Well, as
we are lodged upon College Green, where I beg
you will direct to me, at Mrs. Banfield's, and
indulge my vanity by adding my title of Privy-
purse to the Princess.
I hope to hear from you soon, and am, &c.
A. Pitt,

* Youngest daughter, born in 1719, of the first Earl Stan
hope.

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MRS. ANNE PITT TO LADY SUFFOLK.

Friday, Nov. 10, [1758.]
DEAR LADY SUFFOLK, The affair of this ^ day has quite
1 settled me ; for I have had such a sickness in my
1 stomach ever since Wednesday, and such pretty
I consequences, that, though I am quiet this
: morning, and more relieved than weakened by
my operations, I could not bear the fatigue of
dressing, and much less of going to the crowded
rooms, where I have never once been : pray
remember that. My zeal about my new gown
came partly from its being the only one I shall
have for the winter ; and though it is not re-
: markably fine, it is too much for a volunteer ;
but I hope I shall have better luck at the
princess's birth-day. My Lord Chesterfield is
going, I think, much better than he came. I
hear my '^ Lord Bath is here very lively, but I
have not seen him, which I am very sorry for,
because I want to offer myself to him. I am
quite in earnest, and have set my heart upon it ;
so I beg seriously you will carry it in your mind,
and think if you could find any way to help me.
Do not you think Lady Betty {Germaine) and

George the Second's birth -day. ^ See vol. i. p. 200.

252 —1758 —
Lord and Lady Vere would be ready to help me
if they knew how willing I am ? But I leave all
this to your discretion, and repeat seriously that
I am quite in ^earnest. He can want nothing
but a companion that would like his company ;
and in my situation I should not desire to make
the bargain without that circumstance. And
though all I have been saying puts me in mind
of some advertisements I have seen in the news
paper from gentlewomen in distress, I will not
take that method ; but I want to recollect whe
ther you did not once tell me, as I think you
did many years ago, that he once spoke so well
of me that he got anger for it at home, where
I never was a favourite.
I perceive that by thinking aloud, as I am apt
to do with you, this letter is grown very im
proper for the post ; so I design to se'nd it with
a tea box my sister left and does not want,
directed to your house. 1 know nothing of the
person I talked so much to you about, nor do
not often think about them : what is more im
portant and nearer to me is perfectly as I could
wish. If I had not happened to be sick, I
should have been very much pleased with an
express that was sent me to give me a com
mission that I liked to execute, because it re-

' This seems a very strange asseveration of seriousness in
such a proposition. Lord Bath was at this time about seventy.

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lates to a person I am obliged to, and have a
regard for; it is my "L{ady) ''Y{armouth), who
desires me, by my brother, to explain a very
disagreeable mistake which has been made in
France about a very fond letter, and mighty im
proper as to politics, which Lady Betty Walde-
grave^ wrote to her husband unsigned. And
having desired the answer might be directed
to my Lady Y.'s lodging, they concluded very
absurdly the letter came from her ; and as it
was intercepted, it was translated, shown, and
commented very impertinently. If this is not
pubKc, I need not tell you it should not come
from me; as indeed I make it a rule never
to tell any thing to any body but you : and I
tell you this only because I liked to be applied
to. And though I was pretty sick, and in my
bed when I wrote my letters, I must own I liked
them pretty well, and wish my brother may like
them as well. I hope I shall have an oppor
tunity of sending this before it grows longer —
it cannot go before it is long.

¦• Amelia Sophia de Walmoden, mistress of Geo. II. , created
Countess of Yarmouth in 1 739.
* Elizabeth Gower, fifth daughter of J. Earl Gower, and
wife of General John, afterwards third Earl of Waldegrave.

254 —1761—
MR. HORACE WALPOLE TO LADY SUFFOLK.

[Of Horace Walpole, last Earl of Orford of his branch, and to
whom such frequent allusion has been made in the preceding
pages, it is unnecessary to say more, than that by the con
tiguity of his villa of Strawberry Hill to Marble Hill, he
became intimate with Lady Suffolk ; and notwithstanding
that she and his father had been of opposite factions in court,
they soon formed a strict friendship ; and to this intimacy are
chiefly owing Walpole's Reminiscences, which, although often
inaccurate in details, is one of the most agreeable specimens
of anecdotical writing to be found in any language. He
was born in 1720. His birth was premature, and he was all
his life a very slight, feeble, and unmanly figure. He died
in 1797- The late publication of his Memoirs has lowered
his reputation for candour, disinterestedness, and truth; and
they have, by their undisguised and undeniable falsehood
and malice, excited a strong impression against the accuracy
of his other anecdotical works. His letters too, which are
charming in their style and topics, are unhappily tinctured
with the same readiness to sacrifice truth to either prejudice
or pleasantry.]

Friday night. [April, 1761.]
We are more successful, madam, than I could
flatter myself we should be. '¦ Mr. Conway (and

' General Henry Seymour Conway, afterwards field-marshal;
brother of the first Marquis of Hertford, and cousin of Horace
Walpole. He sat in the twelfth parliament of Great Britain
for Thetford.

—1761— ^55
I need say no more) has negotiated so well, that
the Duke of Grafton is disposed to bring ^Mr.
Beauclerk in for Thetford. It will be expected,
I believe, that Lord Vere should resign Windsor
in a handsome manner to the Duke of Cumber
land. It must be your ladyship's part to prepare
this, which I hope will be the means of putting
an end to these unhappy differences. My only
fear now is, lest the duke should have promised
the Lodge. Mr. Conway writes to *Lord Albe
marle, who is yet at Windsor, to prevent this,
if not already done, till the rest is ready to
be notified to the Duke of Cumberland. Your
ladyship's good sense and good heart make it
unnecessary for me to say more. I am, &c.
Hor. Walpole.

' The Honourable Aubrey Beauclerk, afterwards Duke of
St. Alban's, son of Lord Vere. He was elected for Thetford
Lady Suffolk's interest in this matter arose from her friendship
for Lady Vere, Mr. Beauclerk's mother.
3 His lordship's .son. Captain (afterwards Admiral and Lord)
Keppel, was elected for Windsor.

256 —1761—

LADY SUFFOLK TO LADY BUTE.
[Aug. 1761.]
Lady Suffolk presents her compliments to
Lady Bute, and is very sorry to give her the
trouble of this note after her ladyship's letter,
which she some time since received and acknow
ledged, had put Lady Suffolk's mind then at
ease in regard to *Mrs. Chetwynd, and both
she and her father seemed quite happy when
she communicated the contents to them. But
she has just heard Lady Bute did Mrs. Chet
wynd the honour to call on her, and informed
her that the place of sempstress and laundress
would not admit of her going into the drawing-
room. This is a very mortifying circumstance
and distress to her, and is really a very, very
great mortification to Lady Suffolk, who knows
when any new rules are made at court it be
comes a duty to all those concerned to obey

¦ Deborah Chetwynd, daughter of William, afterwards third
Viscount Chetwynd; she had the office of king's sempstress, and
by a very intelligible etiquette, ladies holding that menial office
were not allowed to appear at court. Miss Chetwynd, naturally
enough, was anxious to combine the honours of her birth with
the profits of her employment ; and Lady Suffolk's friendship
for her father induced her to make every effort to accomplish
her wishes.

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them without a murmur. This makes Lady
Suffolk wish she had known the nature of this
place before the ''D. of M, had notified it to
Mrs. Chetwynd. But now the only favour Lady
Suffolk can ask of Lady Bute is that she will
give one quarter of an hour (though perhaps
this may be unreasonable when every moment
of her time is so precious,) to consider poor
Mrs. Chetwynd's ^former situation and her pre
sent, and tell Lady Suffolk whether she really
thinks she can accept the honour so circum
stanced, or should decline it : if her opinion
is for the latter, in what manner it can be done
that will mark the greatest duty, respect, and
gratitude for the honour his majesty designed
her. If Lady Bute thinks she ought to accept
it. Lady Suffolk thinks so highly of her lady
ship's judgment that it will convince her of
what she must confess at present she has no
notion of.
Lady Suffolk would have waited on Lady
Bute to receive her commands, but was afraid
of being more troublesome, and is very much
ashamed of that she has already given her lady
ship. * Probably Robert, third Duke of Manchester, lord cham
berlain to Queen Charlotte.
' It seems that Miss Chetwynd had obtained, as a special
favour from Geo. IL, that her office as sempstress should not
prevent her being received at court. \
VOL, II. S

258 —1761—
COUNTESS OF BUTE TO LADY SUFFOLK.

[Mary, daughter of Mr. and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu,
created in 1761 Baroness Mount Stuart in her own right:
she survived Lord Bute, and died in Nov. 1 794.]

London, Aug. 6, 1761.
DEAR MADAM, I AM extremely sorry to find Mrs.
Chetwynd's situation is a subject of so much
mortification ; but must beg you to remember
whether even the king's laundress and semp
stress usually appeared at court before Mrs.
Chetwynd had those offices to the late king.
If they did, the present royal family have been
misinformed, who looked upon her being in the
drawing-room as a particular favour to herself;
and the king having upon his accession refused
that privilege to his own sempstress, Mrs. Good
rich, it was impossible to make a word of reply
when he proposed the queen's being on the same
footing. I may perhaps have done wrong, but
I imagined that upon the whole, as it must be a
considerable saving of expense, and that Mrs.
Chetwynd is not of a time of life to be fond of
the amusement of a court, that a more com
fortable subsistence would balance to her the
lesser evil, as her birth is such as gives her an
unquestionable admittance into the best com-

— 1761— 259
pany, nor can she ever want the app^ai'ajiqe at
court as a means of introduction into the world.
1 explained to your ladyship some time ago my
thoughts with regard to her having a higher
place, and have meant to do her all the service
I could, I own I shall therefore be sorry if she
thinks herself!obliged to resign: her employment.
I am infinitely obliged to dear Lady Suffolk
for the trouble she has taken in instructing Mrs.
' Pritchard, and should have come to Marble
Hill to thank you, but really my hurry on dif
ferent accounts has been so great, that, it has
not been possible for me. I cannot help com
municating to you, as a friend to me and mine.
Lady Mary's good fortune (which I must beg
you not to mention)in finding a « man of 30,000/.
a year, as much in love and solicitous to gain
her heart as if he were a half-pay officer, and
seems, to think himself honoured in her accept
ance of r his offer. I hope this will find yqu,
dear madam, enjoying, all the pleasure of the
fine weather, and am ever ;, . ri
Your most faithful and, obedjent,
M. W, Bute,
1 This perhaps alludes to a memorandum drawn up by Lady
Suffolk relative to the ceremonies of the coronation of a.queeu.
See infra, [y. 262. ; ,. , i
" Sir James Lowtheri afterward Eai'l of Lonsdale^ married
in Sept. 1761, Lady Mary, the elder daughter of Lord Bute.
Her ladyship is still alive.
s 2

260 —1761—
Lady Betty and ' Mr. Mackenzie are landed,
and we expect them in town to-morrow.

MRS. CHETWYND TO LADY SUFFOLK.

[Vol. ii. p. 256.]

Dover Street, August 8th, 1761.
DEAR MADAM, After all the trouble I have
given you, must not your ladyship look upon
me to be very unreasonable, in making this ad
dition to it ? but I hope you will forgive me, if
for once I let selfishness get the better of deli
cacy. In an affair of so much consequence to
me as (probably) an establishment for life, can
I avoid not only to consult the person whose
friendship I have had so many proofs of, and
upon whom I can so entirely depend, but also
to entreat your ladyship to be so good to ter
minate this affair for me in the manner you

* James Stuart, brother to Lord Bute, who assumed his
great-grandfather's name of M'Kenzie, and succeeded to his
estate. (See infra, p. 272.) He married Lady Betty Camp
bell, one of the daughters and co-heirs of John Duke of Argyll :
he died in 1800, and she in 1799, without issue.

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most approve; for such is my deference for
your opinion, that you may be assured I shall
think myself happy, let your decision be that I
am to live in a court or out of it.
Your ladyship having informed me how much
I owe to Lady Bute on this occasion, I must
beg the favour of you to make my proper ac
knowledgments when you have an opportunity.
My abilities are very small, but such as they
are, I should be happy to employ them for her
service, being sensible of the gratitude I owe
her; and I will hope (if I have the honour to
serve the queen) my attention to my duty will
secure to me the honour of her protection. In
recollecting the contents of her ladyship's letter,
which you were so good to read to me, whe^,^in
she seems to think my being admitted into 4iie
drawing-room was a particular favour done to
ine by the late king, I think it necessary to
state the fact, which stands thus. Upon being
appointed sempstress, &c. the question was
asked, whether I was to have the honour of
being presented to his majesty in the drawing-
room. The answer made was, most undoubt
edly; since I was upon a footing of going to
eourt before I was in employment, that an ac
ceptance thereof could not deprive me of an
honour I was by birth entitled to ; and if I may
be allowed to speak from information, several
of my predecessors have gone to court ; but

262 —1761-
precedents, I^imagine, are no longer in point,
after what has been alleged concerning new re
gulations made by his present majesty.
My father desireis his respects to your lady
ship. His knee mends very slowly.
I have the honour, &c.
D. CnteTWYND.

MEMORANDUM BY LADY SUFFOLK
or THE CEREMONIES OBSERVED AT THE CORONATION OF
t QUEEN CAROLINE.

QThe following paper was, no doubt, drawn up (pl-obably at
Lady Bute's request, see ante, p. 259,) to serve as a guide at
the coronation of Q^een Charlotte in Sept. 1761.] : ;¦

At the late queen's coronation the Duchess
of Dorset was mistress of the robes; but Mrs.
Howard, bedchamber-woman, having had all
things belonging to that office for many years
under her care, received her majesty's com
mands to provide every thing proper for her
majesty's dress for the coronation,' and to in
quire into all particulars necessiary for the queen
to know. Upon inquiry into the different of
fices, she received information that the mistreSs
of the robes was the only person in whose name

—1761— 263
demands were to be made, and all answers were
to be directed to her; upon which Mrs. Howard
told this to the Duchess of Dorset, who desired
her to write in her (the Duchess's) name, and
to receive all answers. All that follows may be
taken as done by the mistress of the robes, i.
Upon inquiry where her majesty should be
dressed, it was answered, at Westminster, Im
mediately the earl marshal delivered up a roqm
of his, very convenient for the purpose ; and on
the morning before the coronation all her ma
jesty's robes and jewels were carried ; to ; that
room under a guard. The page of the robes
staid there all night with a proper guard, which
was asked of the officer on duty there. By
particular orders there was a small handker
chief (but it has another ^name,) provided-
The night before the coronation the i queen's
order to all her servants, except the bedcham
ber-woman, was to be. at Westminster in the
places assigned them, at the hour appointed for
their summpns; iand at a little after seven
o'clock the next morning her majesty, being
in an undres's, but every thing new, w^nt into
hfendiair (not a state sone) with the curtains
drawrij; her lord chamberlain in a hackney chair
before, her majesty and Mrs, Howard in hers
' It is called a coif, and is put over, the sovereign's head
after the anointing.

264 —1761—
behind; and particular care was taken that
it should not be suspected when her majesty
passed the Park,
As soon as her majesty got to Westminster,
Mrs. Howard dressed her, assisted only by those
who belonged to the office. Mrs. Herbert, the
other bedchamber-woman, came in, but being
in her full dress, could not assist. As soon as the
queen came into the room where the peeresses
were assembled, from that time the Duchess of
Dorset assisted as mistress of the robes. She
walked alone immediately after the queen ; and
when the service of the church was over, and the
queen was to be crowned and anointed, the four
ladies were called to the pall, and the mistress
of the robes then advanced on the right side of
thepalljthe bedchamber-wopian on the left, to be
ready to take off the circle, and open the queen's
tucker, that the bishop might crown and anoint
her majesty, and to be ready to close the tucker,
and pin on the crown. There is a little ^ hand
kerchief which the bedchamber-woman in wait
ing gives to the mistress of the robes, to wipe
off any oil that might fall upon the face. The
queen retires into St. Edward's chapel, to offer
her crown, and then the mistress of the robes,
assisted by the bedchamber-women, pin on the
fine crown appointed for her majesty.
' The same before mentioned.

—1761— 265
After dinner the queen retired into the room
:in which she had been dressed, and there was
undressed, and every thing was left there for
that night, guarded as they had been the night
before. Her majesty went back to St, James's in
private.

THE EARL OF MANSFIELD TO LADY SUFFOLK.

[William Murray, deservedly called the great Lord Mansfield.
He was the fourth son of David, Earl of Stormont. He was
called to the bar in 1732 ; in 1738 he married Lady Eliza
beth Finch, the daughter of Lord Winchelsea; in 1741 he
was appointed solicitor-general ; in 1 754 attorney-general ;
and in 1 756 he succeeded Sir Dudley Ryder as chief justice
of England, and was created a peer. He retired in 1788
from his high office, which he had filled with an ability and
splendour which surpassed his predecessors, and has not
been since approached. He died on the 20th of March,
1 793, in the eighty-eighth year of his age.
The following letter has nothing characteristic or peculiar j
but as Lord Mansfield's letters are rare, it has been thought
right to preserve even the otherwise insignificant remains of
so eminent a man.

Kenwood, Sept. 16, 1761,
MADAM, I AM eixtremely flattered by the ho
nour of an application from your ladyship, and
the very polite and obliging manner in whicb it

^266 —1761 —
is made, I remember Marble Hill with great
pleasure, and have ever thought of your lady
ship with high esteem, I know nothing of the
prospect of a vacancy of the mastership of the
Charter House but by your ladyship's letter,
I do not know who may have had grounds of
expectation given them, or may be candidates,
or may be thought of a.s proper without being
candidates. Upon such occasions my vote
never is previously engaged, because I con
sider it as a trust to do the best I can under
all the circumstances at the time. Upon whom
soever the choice shall fall, I hope the elec
tion will be unanimous. But it will ' be a par-
ticular pleasure to me, and, I am persuaded, to
many of the governors,,. if it, should ligtit upon
one espoused by your ladyship and Lady Betty
Germaine ; and I do assure you, that circum
stance will lay a bia's upon my mind, I hope
your ladyship will do me the justice to believe
that I have always held this conduct upon such
occasions, and shall ever, because I think it
right in the execution of a trust. There are many
who can tell your ladyship that I did so upon
the two late elections of Dr. Radcliffe's fellows,
and by that means contributed, in some mea
sure, to make the first election almost, and the
other entirely, unaflimous. I an> no stranger
to Dr. Morton's character, which gives hiiri rair
pretensions to put in. I have no difficulty to

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convey your ladyship's i request to the Duke of
Newcas^tle ; but I shall not see him for some
days, and I should think you will judge it right
that an application should be made to his grace
directly.
I have the honour to be, &c.
' Mansfield,

RIGHT HON. CHARLES TOWNSHEND TO LADY
SUFFOLK.

[^Charles, second son of the third Viscount Townshend, and of
Audrey Harrison, celebrated for her wit and eccentricities ;
in both of which her son surpassed her. Charles Townshend
was born in. 1725, came into parliament in 1747, and for
twenty years astonished that assembly with the extent and
irregularity of his talents. He was successively a lord of
trade and of the admiralty, secretary at war, president of
the board of trade, paymaster, and finally, in 1 7QQ, chancellor
of the exchequer, in which office he died in Sept. 1767.
Although we learn from Walpole that Mr. Townshend was
a correspondent of Lady Suffolk's, yet nothing of his has
been found but the following insignificant letter, which is
inserted for the same reason that an insignificant letter of
Lord Mansfield's has been preserved.] War Office, Feb. 22, 1762.
MADAM, I HAVE long waited with some im
patience for an opportunity of promoting Major
Stuart, in some degree from my knowledge of
his character both in life and service, but in a

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still greater degree from the desire I have and
ever shall have of manifesting to your ladyship,
by my voluntary assistance of Major Stuart, the
high regard and great personal respect I bear
to yourself That opportunity has now hap-
pened, and his majesty was this day pleased, at
my request, to make Major Stuart the lieutenant-
colonel of Keppel's regiment upon a vacancy I
have made for him'. I ask no thanks for this
favour to a person protected by your ladyship ;
for the motives of friendship that dictated the
thought have already rewarded me for it.
I am, &c.
C. Townshend,

¦ Poor Col. Stuart did not long enjoy his promotion; he
died in the September of the same year.

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EARL TEMPLE TO LADY SUFFOLK.

[Richard, first Lord Temple, born in 1711, died in 1779;
an early and intimate friend of Lady Suffolk, as his uncle.
Lord Cobham, had been. This is the only letter of his
which has been found in the whole collection. It is un
necessary to recapitulate the numerous offices which he
held, and the important political part he played, from his
coming into the House of Commons in 1734, to his death.
He was married, as we have seen, to Lady Suffolk's friend,
Anne Chamber; but, having no issue, was succeeded In his
titles and estates by the late Marquis of Buckingham, the
son of his next brother, Mr. George Grenville.]
Stowe, Oct. 10, 1762,
The first and most agreeable use to which I
can possibly apply my pen after my recovery
from a feverish cold, which confined me to my
bed, is to thank my dear Lady Suffolk for her
kind reprimand, and to assure her that she does
me the highest injustice, if ever she thinks
but for a moment that I can forget either the
obligations I really have to her, or be inten
tionally wanting in any mark of respect or
affectionate attention. I only beg she will be
so good as to keep these few lines by her, and
whenever I fail in things not essential, just cast
one glance upon it. I am not very famous, as
she well knows, for epistolary regards, even to
my best friends. Lady Suffolk, I know, does not
love writing, and it is sometimes painful to her ;

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I therefore do confess it lies at my door the not
having signified to her by letter Lady Temple's
attack, which I was desired to do, as well as to
Hanworth, Lord Vere and she have lately been
in pretty constant correspondence ; but I chose
to decline giving to your ladyship, otherwise
than through them, so unwelcome and trouble
some a communication. 1 love Marble Hill, and
fully intended waiting upon you there before I
left town; but my flight was so early and un
expected, business came on so fast upon me,
that I trusted to your goodness for forgiveness.
Thus have you a full and true account of the
state of my affectionate regards towards your
ladyship: if you are convinced, I only beseech
you not to send me a Hue in answer, I never
doubted your kindness and goodness to me, even
in the height of our bitterest disputes, or when
you have scolded me the most severely : con
tinue only the same to me, and believe me you
will ever find me, with sincere and affectionate
respect. Yours, &c.
Templje.

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LADY SUFFOLK TO LORD BUCKINGHAM.

[Lord liuokinghaiii was now ambassador at St. Petersburgh ;
and his brother, Mr. Herbert, who was his secretary of em
bassy, being obliged to return to England, his lordship
wished that his brother-in-law. Col. Hotham, should succeed
him.]

[Feb. 1763.]
I received and communicated this morning
your letter of the 19th of January to Colonel
Hotham. You will already have received one
from me that will inform you of his and my sen
timents on that subject ; so that it is unnecessary
for me to add any thing more upon it. I have
(as you wish to remain alone, since it is impos
sible, as well as improper, for him to be of the
party) desired Mr. Mackenzie to inform Lord
Bute — and that immediately — that Colonel Ho
tham's health, from the severity of the service
he has undergone, obliges him to decline an
offer he is at present unequal to undertake ; but
that I beg, he being out of the question, his
lordship will be so good to keep the thing open
till your answer can come to this letter.

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HON. MR. MACKENZIE TO LADY SUFFOLK.

[The Hon. James Stuart, only brother to Lord Bute, who suc
ceeding to the estate of his grandfather. Sir Geo. Mackenzie,
assumed his name. He was, in 1759, envoy to Turin; but
on his brother's accession to power he was recalled, and ap
pointed privy seal for Scotland. His influence with Geo. III.
was much dreaded ; and on the formaticm of a new ad
ministration in 1763, his dismissal was made a sine qua non,
which gave the king great uneasiness; and in 1765 his
majesty granted him his office for life. He died in 1800
without issue.]

[London, Feb. 15, 1763.]
DEAR LADY SUFFOLK,
I HAVE obeyed your commands in
acquainting Lord Bute with Mr. Hobart's desire
to come home, and Lord Buckingham's wish to
have Mr. Hotham succeed him, or in case of
his decUning that office to delay the filling of it
up, till his lordship can have an opportunity of
looking about him for a proper person to submit
to his majesty for his royal approbation. My
brother is much inclined for Mr. Hotham, and
would willingly facihtate his nomination, if he
could bring himself to like it. I have not the
honour of being much acquainted with Mr.
Hotham ; but, as I can with great satisfaction
say that that is not my case with respect to
your ladyship, allow me to suggest to you, dear
Lady Suffolk, that I think him much in the

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wrong for declining to embrace a lucky oppor
tunity that offers of introducing him into that
sort of business which need not interfere with
his own profession (especially in time of peace),
and may possibly be of considerable assistance
to him even in his military capacity ; but should
it not, it is, at least for the present, a genteel,
honourable, and profitable employment. For
give my throwing out to you my thoughts of
the matter : my regard for you is my sole mo
tive for doing it, being ever most sincerely
Yours, &c. H. Mackenzie.
Mr. Neville! ig arrived with the definitive
treaty, signed on Thursday last, the 10th inst.

LADY SUFFOLK TO LORD BUCKINGHAM.

Marble Hill, June 12, 1763.
How ungrateful must Lady Suffolk appear for
dear Lord Buckingham's so many kind letters
and remembrance of her ! Four weeks has she
let pass without one word of thanks, or even of
' Richard Neville Aldworth, Secretary to the embassy at
Paris, (father of the second Lord Braybrook) brought home
the definitive treaty of peace between Great Britain and Portu
gal, France, and Spain.
VOL. II. T

274. . —1763—
acknowledgment, for these marks of goodness
and attention : and now what is she to say ?
Nothing to please him, if she believes (as in
deed she ought) that he wishes her well ; so the
less she says on what is past the better : but she
can now assure him that she is got very tolera
bly well, and does most affectionately thank
him for his letters and his present. She hears
the king received his most graciously ; and in
deed, if Lord Buckingham's correspondent does
his master justice, he has all reason to think
himself happy in such a master. Lady Suffolk
thinks that she can answer that the servant 
(Lady S. began to write on half a sheet of
paper : Lord B. must excuse it, as well as ten
thousand other mistakes that she makes when
ever she pretends to write letters.)
 will not prove a useless one. She was
charmed with the proof he has given how he
passes his leisure hours. The man who wrote
that letter will always be of great service and
credit to those that employ him.
What answer can Lady Suffolk make to those
constant complaints of Lord Buckingham, that
he knows nothing of what passes in England?
She is not conscious that any thing has, in
which he had a personal concern, that she has
not given him a hint of it, before it was pub
licly known : and how to write at once pru
dently ai\d minutely on those great events, and

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what ha^ been consequent upon them, is much
beyond her capacity. She will now try to
puzzle him. Can he find out who that person
is that aspires to be the first, by the following
description of him? ^ Very young; very ambi
tious; brought into the great world by a worthy,
honest, and ^very particular friend of Lord
Buckingham, and yet who had rather get over
such a friend's head than any other way : very
presumptuous, but must never be contradicted,
though the step should involve his best friend
in the greatest difficulty : — now, to finish with a
paradox — yet it is very doubtful whether the
person betrayed suspects that he is so.
Lord Buckingham's former passions go off
very quickly : poor ^ Lady Northampton is dead
at Naples, and it is much feared Lord Northamp
ton is by this time dead at Venice ; and they are
now carrying *Lord Brownlow Bertie to see
' This young, ambitious, and presumptuous person, I sus
pect to be Charles Townshend ; but he was now thirty-eight
years old, which is not so very young.
^ The worthy and particular friend of Lord Buckingham-
I shire is probably Mr. George Grenville.
' Lady Anne Somerset, daughter of Charles, fourth Duke of
Beaufort : she was married in 1 759 to Charles, seventh Earl
of Northampton, died at Naples in May 1763, and about the
1 time that her lord made his public entry as ambassador at
' Venice. He died on his return homeward in October, 1763.
* Third son of the second Duke of Ancaster, and himself
afterwards fifth and last duke. T 1

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what the air of France will do for him. All Lady
Suffolk's friends are going to Italy, France, or
the Spa ; some for pleasure, some for health.
Lady Buckingham has given Lady Suffolk great
uneasiness : she did not think her well ; and
Lord Buckingham knows she is not apt to take
care of herself ; but by a little art she has been
brought to drink asses' milk, and to follow some
other directions, by the use of which she is now
much better. No notice must be taken of this,
as Lady Suffolk would not be forgiven ; and it
would put it out of her power to be useful to
her, or to know certainly how she was : con
sequently unable her to give Lord Buckingham
such constant and just intelligence as he could
depend upon : as things stand now, he may de
pend on both. ' Lady Harriet Hobart is a very
fine child, very healthy, forward on her feet, and
takes great pains to be so with her tongue. Miss
Hotham is vastly pleased with Lord Buckingham's
taking constant notice of her ; and really seems
grateful for, as well as vain of it. Mr. Hobart
is now expected every day; by accounts from
Berlin his illness was no trifling affair. All Lord
Buckingham's public and private friends, not
mentioned, are well. God bless and preserve
him is most sincerely wished by his affectionate
old aunt.

' His eldest daughter, born in 1 762.

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LADY SUFFOLK TO LORD BUCKINGHAM.

Sept. 21, 1763.
I AM more unfit to write than ever I was in my
life ; but I cannot let a messenger go to Peters
burg without thanking you for all your letters,
my dear Lord Buckingham. Your last is dated
22d August. I much fear one of your letters
that you mention has miscarried ; but it is of
little consequence if I understand those I did
receive ; for nothing has been omitted that, in
my opinion, was proper in the ' strange situation

' Lady Suffolk alludes, it is supposed, to the scheme for
turning out George Grenville, and bringing back the Whigs,
on the death of Lord Egremont 2 1st of August, 1763 ; three
days after which Lord Bute paid a sudden visit for three
hours to Lord Chatham at Hayes, and on the 27th Lord
Chatham was commanded to attend the king at Buckingham-
house, where he was invited to give his full and free opinions
bri men abd measures : and he wa.s so satisfied of his success
that he went to Claremont immediately, and told all that
passed to the Duke of Newcastle ; upon which they sent for
the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Rockingham, and Lord Hard-
wicke to come to town. When summoned to the closet again,
on the 29th, matters took so different a turn, that he wrote on
the following day to the Duke of Newcastle to inform him
all was at an end, and at their next meeting the party agreed
upon a systematic opposition to the ministry, in which Charles
Townshend joined ; and though he received large offers to
abandon his then friends, he refused, and went down with
them to Chatsworth to testify his fidelity.

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of all public affairs; but as I saw Mr. Grenville
last Sunday, I know you will have as particular
an account as the nature of many extraordinary
transactions within this month will admit of I
joined with him in opinion to say nothing in
public of the contents of your last letter; but I
do hope and believe that you will have reason
to be satisfied : yet indeed my head is almost
turned with what I have seen and heard; and I
do not to this moment comprehend the ends
and purposes designed to be gained by this most
extraordinary undertaking, which has puzzled
the wisest heads.
Lord B. {Bute) goes into the country for this
winter : his 2 third daughter is to marry Lord
Northumberland's son. Lord ^ Egremont has
died vastly rich, and made great provisions for
all his family. Your family are all well : I would
flatter myself I shall soon be so ; but head and
eyes love contradiction, and will not agree with
me. Mr. Hampden's daughter is very soon to
be married to Mr. Child ; a great estate, a great

» Lady Anne married, in 1764, Hugh Earl Percy, after
wards second Duke of Northumberland, from whom she was
divorced in 1779.
3 Charles Wyndham, first Earl of Egremont of that name,
son of the celebrated Sir William Wyndham, and grandson of
the proud Duke of Somerset; on whose death, without male
issue, he inherited the title of Egremont. He died Aug. 31,
1763.

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deal of money, and a good character. I cannot
conclude, without assuring you again, that was
I in, perfect health, I should not dare to give
you any particular account of what has hap
pened ; I hardly know the person living that
could do it, and not lead you into some mis
takes: and yet I think you will soon receive it
from the best hand, and from an honest heart.
The little . girl * will add her duty to you ; and
I do beg you will believe me
Most affectionately and faithfully yours, H. S.

MR, TREVOR HAMPDEN TO LADY SUFFOLK.
[Robert Trevor, third son of the first Lord Trevor (see veil. i.
p. 19), who took the name of Hampden, and succeeded to
the estate of John Hampden, half-brother of Richard Hamp
den (see vol. i. p. 236). He was afterwards the fourth
Lord Trevor, and was created, in 1776, Viscount Hampden.
He filled several diplomatic offices with distinction. A
splendidly printed volume of Latin poems places him in the
catalogtie of noble authors. He was born ia 1701 and died
1783.]

Hampden House, Sept 21, 1763.
DEAR MADAiM, Nothing can be kinder or juster
than your reproaches : I had most certainly pre-

Miss Hotham.

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vented them, but that ray ' daughter's bashfulness
would scarce allow me to notify the affair even to
my brothers and sisters. However she now very
thankfully accepts of your obliging congratula
tions and kind wishes on the occasion ; and we
both hope this omission will not prejudice either
of us in your ladyship's favourable opinion.
Now your ladyship has drawn this trouble upoii
yourself, allow me to add, that Mr. Child's
wealth has been one of his least recommenda
tions with me ; as I can assure you I have not
met with any one young man of fortune so
much, in all respects, after my own heart as
himself; and I think I have' the additional satis
faction of seeing my girl see him in the same
light. I have the honour to subscribe myself, with
the most perfect respect.
Madam, yours, &c.
Robert Hampden.

MR. TREVOR HAMPDEN TO LADY SUFFOLK,

Hampden House, Sept. 28, 1763.
MADAM, >¦ '¦¦
Lest your ladyship may think me
more communicative of bad news than of good,
* Maria Constantia, Mr. Hampden's only daughter.

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I will suppress all the former, and only tell
you, that I and my daughter support ourselves,
under our ' unprecedented circumstances, as
well as can be imagined. The part your lady
ship takes in her welfare entitles you to this
information; as well as to be told how generous
a mark of his affection poor Mr. Child has left
her, by bequeathing her, with his last breath,
fifty thousand pounds : to which his surviving
brother has been so genteel as to add all the
family jeweils that were making up for her.
The affliction and consternation I am still
under prevent my adding more than the pro
fessions of that perfect truth and respect with
which I have the honour to be.
Madam, yours, &c.
Robert Hampden.

' Mr. Child died suddenly in the midst of the preparations
for his marriage. Horace Walpole writes to Montague on the
3rd October : — " I felt shocked, as you did, to think how sud
denly after our seeing it, the prospect of joy at Osterley was
dashed. However, the young lover died handsomely : fifty thou
sand pounds will dry tears that at most could be but two
months old. His brother, I hear, has behaved still more
handsomely, and confirmed the legacy, and added from himself
-the diamonds which had been prepared for her. Here is a
charming wife for any body who likes a sentimental situation —
a pretty woman — and a large fortune." Miss Hampden's tears
were soon dried; for she .-married; in May 1764, to Lady
Suffolk's only son, the tenth Earl of Suffolk.

282 —1763—

THE EARL OF BUCKINGHAM TO LADY SUFFOLK.
St. Petersburgh, Nov. 18, 1763.
DEAR MADAM, Lady Buckingham informs me of
the purchase which Lady ^Denbigh, carrying
her worldly views to the very last stage of mor
tality, has lately made.
Very different are the objects of the two
sisters ; but each seems to be too much di
rected by sensuality : the one has fixed her affec
tions upon a Moscovite, who is very much alive,
the other upon a departed ^ philosopher. With
regard to the first, the extremity of christian
charity may indeed suppose her attachment to

' Isabella de Yonge, wife of William, fifth Earl of Den
bigh, and sister of Maria Catherine de Yonge, widow of the
Marquis of Blandford, and of Sir W. Wyndham. Lady Den
bigh seems to have purchased her own grave in Teddington
churchyard ; but what Lord Buckingham meant by supposing
that poor old lady Blandford had an attachment to a young Mus
covite does not appear.
" Doctor Hales, rector and curate of Teddington, a pious,
respectable, and learned person, who refused dignities in the
church, that he might devote himself to his parochial duties.
He was clerk of the closet to the princess dowager. He died
in 1761 at the age of eighty-four, and was buried close under
the tower of Teddington church, which he had rebuilt at his
own expense.

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be merely to the mind of the young gentle
man.- and that not the least intemperate idea is
blended in their sentimental connexion : but
far other must be the animal views of your
neighbour, who with such premeditation pro
vides that her corporeal parts may be squeezed
close to the remains of Dr, Hales ; for as to his
soul, she is certainly much more likely to find
it any where than in Teddington churchyard.
I do not excel in fancy, yet will mention a
thought that occurs to me, which you may re
commend, if you approve of it, to the good
countess. She may purchase of the sexton of
Teddington those venerable rehcs which she
so greatly prizes, and probably at a much less
expense than what she paid for the contiguous
mould: these, with reverence due, must be con
sumed upon a funeral pile, and the hallowed
ashes gathered in an urn, which should be de
posited in her bedchamber, till time has made
her olay a proper subject for the same opera
tion ; then let her dust be mixed with his, and
incorporated with the soil of some pleasant
mound at Strawberry Hill. The pious = owner
will plant a myrtle upon the sacred spot, there
long to flourish, the vegetating monument of
their mutual affection.
^ Walpole's piety was just of such a kind as Lord B. sup
poses ; but surely his lordship's own levity as to Dr. Hales
was misplaced.

284 _1763—
You say you think I am cheerful, from the
style of my letters : encourage that thougjj^t, as
I am sure it will give you pleasure. To give
you a short idea of my state, I try to make the
most of what is ; regret only one year (and that
not 1763) of all that is past; and have no very
sanguine hopes of the future. Let me hear that
your cold is well : make my compliments to
Mrs. Harriet ; and believe me
Your most affectionate nephew,
Buckingham.
P. S. * This letter was intended for Lady
Suffolk ; but as in a letter I have this moment
received, you mention that she thinks my style
extravagant, you will read it to her or not as
you please. I have no reason to doubt of having
his majesty's permission to return next summer,
P. S. the second. — The price of my Dover-
street palace is 3000/. Let Mr. Drummond
know I have this day drawn upon him for 1000/.
payable three months hence.
¦* This paragraph is addressed to Miss Hotham.

¦1763— 285

LADY SUFFOLK TO THE EARL OF BUCKINGHAM.
Nov. 25 [1763],
I MUST write, though head, eyes, and fingers
forbid it. My dear Lord B. is so much better
than I deserve in so often taking notice of his
old aunt, that she now exerts all her little
powers to thank him for his goodness to her.
' Mr. Hobart and * Colonel Hotham assure me
they constantly give you accounts of what passes
in St. Stephen's Chapel, and of other matters,
much , too high and intricate for my capacity
either to judge of, or even to comprehend.
They say Sir ' Joseph York comes over, and Mr.
Stanley * goes to Holland as envoy ; this answers
a paragraph in onp of your former letters : in
deed, I do believe economy becomes absolutely
necessary. ^JemroyG.{GrenviUe)has opened very

1 See infra, p. 297.
^ See a7tte, p. 240.
' Third son of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke ; an officer, and
finally field-marshal in the army. He was from 1751 to 1780
envoy and ambassador in Holland, and was in 1 788 created
Lord Dover. He died without issue in 1792.
* The Right Honourable Hans Stanley, one of the lords of
the Admiralty, who had been employed in some negotiations
at Paris at the beginning of the reign, He was in 1765 am
bassador to Russia.
* Third brother of Lord Temple, (see ante, p. 1 95) father of
Lord Glastonbury.

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violently against Mr. G. {George Grenville), even
to be painful to the hearers. Mr. Wilkes's affair
will prevent our ® great wedding for some time.
Do you approve Mr. Martin challenging and
fighting Wilkes, when two such great charges,
and so very different in their nature, lay against
him in both houses of Parliament? Lord Efling-
ham ' is dead. I believe Lord Suffolk succeeds
to the earl marshal's staff, by the Duke of Nor
folk's nomination', and his majesty has given
the horse grenadiers to ^Lord Cantalupe. I am
one of those who do not 

Tuesday, Nov. 29.
-believe all that is said of Colonel C.'s gal

lantry; but I guess it will surprise you to be told
with certainty that Admiral K  lives now
with his wife in perfect harmony. All things

' Of the Princess Augusta with the Duke of Brunswick.
One does not see how Wilkes's affair was to prevent that ; and
we see in the conclusion of this letter that it did not.
' Thomas, second Earl of Effingham, died Nov. 19, 1763.
His lordship was a lieutenant-general, and had the command
of the first troop of horse grenadier guards.
' Thomas, third Earl of Effingham, succeeded his father in
this office.
9 John, afterwards second Earl of Delawar, born in 1 729.
On the formation of Queen Charlotte's household he was ap
pointed her vice-chamberlain. He was afterwards her master
of the horse. He died in 1777.

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are at a full stand in Wilkes's affair, till he is
able to appear in person.
Jemmy G. {Grenville) and Mr. Rigby were so
violent against each other, one in his manner
of treating Lord T. {Temple) who was in the
house, and the brother in justification of his
brother, that the House was obliged to inter
pose to prevent ^mischief. To-day the king
sends his message to the House relative to the
Princess Augusta's marriage.
Lord T.^ comes to me ; but politics is the bane
of friendship, and when personal resentments
join, the man becomes another creature: when
you return, experience will convince you of the
truth of what I say. I have got your letter of
WCt. AlO. /^.,){U^A^_ ,
Lady D. {Dorothy Thempson) is by no means
well : your family perfectly so. Miss H.'s {Ho
tham's) duty, with very pretty expressions of
gratitude for the honour of your notice of her.
Lady B. Germaine was vastly pleased with your
compliments to her.

' See Parliamentary Debates, vol. xv. p. 1362.
^ Probably Lord Temple.

288 —1764—

LADY SUFFOLK TO LORD BUCKINGHAM.

March 30, 1764.
MY DEAR, DEAR LORD B.
I OBEYED your orders in a very few
hours after I received them. Your ^frjend and
I were two hours consulting, and he met the
affair with such marks of friendship, that he
seemed to me as uneasy as I could be, for fear
another should be named ; but by his letter to
you I flatter myself you will be convinced you
have friends. To his letter I refer you, for it is
impossible for me to write more. I love you ;
I wish to hear from you, and do most sincerely
wish you may be satisfied, and I really think
will. * Lady Buckingham feels this delay, but
behaves very properly : I will do my utmost to
keep up her spirits : she dotes on you.

' Probably Mr. George Grenville.
° Mary Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Drury, by whom
(who died in childbirth 1769) Lord B, had three daughters:
Henrietta, Lady Ancram ; Caroline, Lady Suffield; and Sophia,
Lady Mount-Edgecumbe.

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LADY SUFFOLK TO LORD BUCKINGHAM.

Aug. 9, 1764.
Oh, my dear Lord Buckingham, must I
employ my pen, which is so precious, only to
scold you ? Indeed you are much to blame ; for
I do most sincerely beUeve Mr. G. {Grenville)
is your friend, and has not failed you in any
point. Perhaps he has not written two letters
upon the same subject; for surely, after the
first that I saw, there could be nothing but
the usual forms that go through other offices
to follow that gracious permission, to do as you
judged most proper. What would you have ?
The man named you do think your friend ; the
manjiot named is likewise so : but here I stop,
and so must your 'curiosity; for after I have
said I love both the men, but I know not how
little or much they love each other ; but this
I know, that their own power, ease, and safety,
depend upon their union. Farewell : love your
old aunt; be easy; I think you have reason.
As for Norfolk, you seem to have had some
false accounts.
Mr. H. in politics may have differed from you ;

¦ The correspondence does not show what the business was
to which this and the last letter allude.
VOL, II. ^

290 —1765—
but if you think that father and son are not in
Norfolk warmly your friends, and will be so
there on all occasions, you are cruelly deceived;
and take care that those wretches' intelligence
make no impression on your mind, till you hear
with your own ears, and see with your own
eyes. As for the receiver's place, I guess it was
given in appearance to the nomination of the
Lord Lieutenant.

THE HON. HORACE WALPOLE (AFTERWARDS
EARL OF ORFORD) TO LADY SUFFOLK.

[Vol. ii. p. 254.3

[London], July 3, 1765,
Your ladyship's goodness to me on all occa
sions makes me flatter myself that I am not
doing an impertinence in telling you I am alive ;
though, after what I have suffered, you may be
sure there cannot be much of me left.
The gout has been a little in my stomach,
much more in my head, but luckily never out
of my right foot, and for twelve, thirteen, and

-1765— 291
seventeen hours together, insisting upon having
its way as absolutely as ever my Lady ' Blandford
did. The extremity of pain seems to be over,
though I sometimes think my tyrant puts in his
claim to t'other foot ; and surely he is, like most
tyrants, mean as well as cruel, or he could
never have thought the leg of a lark such a
prize. The fever, the tyrant's first minister, has been
at least as vexatious as his master, and makes
use of this hot day to plague me more ; yet as
I was sending a servant to Twickenham, I could
not help scrawling out a few lines to ask how
your ladyship does, to tell you how I am, and
to lament the roses, strawberries, and banks of
the river.
I know nothing, madam, of any kings or mi
nisters but those I have mentioned, and this
administration I fervently hope will be changed
soon, and for all others I shall be very indif
ferent. Had a great prince come to my bed
side yesterday, I should have begged that the
honour might last a very few minutes.
I am, &c.
Horace Walpole.

• See ante, p. 282. Lady Blandford was somewhat impatient
In her temper.

u %

292 — 1765 —
HON. HORACE WALPOLE TO LADY SUFFOLK.
Arlington-street, July 9, 1765.
MADAM, Though instead of getting better, as
I flattered myself I should, I have gone through
two very painful and sleepless nights, yet as I
give audience here in my bed to new ministers
and foreign ministers, I think it full as much
my duty to give an account of myself to those
who are so good as to wish me well. I am re
duced to nothing but bones and spirits ; but the
latter make me bear the inconvenience of the
former, though they (I mean my bones) lie in
a heap over one another like the bits of ivory at
the game of straws.
It is very melancholy, at the instant I was
getting quit of politics, to be visited with the
only thing that is still more plaguing. However,
I believe the fit of politics going off makes me
support the new comer better. Neither of them,
indeed will leave me ^plumper; but if they will

' Walpole was too fond of this boast of disinterestedness.
What was it but politics that made his fortune %o plump? His
fortune from his father, we knovl' from himself, was very
inconsiderable 5 but from his childhood beheld sinecure offices.
which, during the greater part of his life, produced him be
tween 6000/., and 7000Z. per annum.

—1765— 293
both leave me at peace, your ladyship knows it
is all I have ever desired.
The chiefs of the new ministry were to have
kissed hands to-day ; but Mr. Chas. Townshend,
who, besides not knowing '^either of his own
minds, has his 'brother's minds to know too,
could not determine last night. Both brothers
are gone to the king to-day.
I was much concerned to hear so bad an ac
count of your ladyship's health. Other people
would wish you a severe fit, which is a very
cheap wish to them who do not feel it : I, who
do, advise you to be content with it in detail.
Adieu, madam : pray keep a little summer
for me. I will give you a bushel of politics,
when I come to Marble Hill, for a tea-cup of
strawberries and cream.
Mr. Chetwynd* I suppose is making the ut
most advantage of my absence, frisking and
cutting capers before Miss Hotham, and ad-
vis^ing her not to throw herself away on a de
crepit old man. Well, well ; fifty years hence
he may begin to be an old man too, and then I
shall not pity him, though I own he is the best
humoured lad in the world now.
Yours, &c. Hor. Walpole.
•
* A witty allusion to the inconsistency of Charles Townshend.
^ George, afterwards first Marquis Townshend.
¦• Mr. Chetwynd was near eighty. See ante, p. 152.

294 _i765—
EARL OF BUCKINGHAM TO LADY SUFFOLK.
Aug. 11, 1765.
DEAR MADAM, Though of all my correspondents there
is none to whom I wish, for every reason, to show
so much attention as to my good, aunt, yet it is
in a degree apologising for my long silence to
tell you that for some time past an indisposi
tion to every kind of application has prevented
me from writing any letters, except such as
indispensable necessity absolutely called for.
Writing here is by no means so easy to me as
when in Russia. I then had facts to relate
which were new, and descriptions of things and
places which could not be familiar to you : now,
in order to extend a letter into a decent length,
I have hardly any choice but to enter into dis
sertations upon subjects unpleasing to me in
themselves, upon which you are better informed,
and upon which you can reason infinitely better
than I am able. The late ' change of admini
stration appears to me the most  What ?
you will ask ; and I will answer when we meet,
and not before. Yet it is not prudence, nor the
' That which removed Mr. George Grenville, placed Lord
Rockjjigham at the head of the treasury, and made the Duke
of Grafton and General Conway secretaries of state.

—1765— '295
fear, or rather the certainty, that the new lords
of the post-office are directed by the present
''occasional governors to examine the corre
spondence of the many whose concurrence in
their hasty arrangement is doubted. Not in
the least : it is not my wish to conceal my sen
timents from those gentlemen with decency to
them, and the greatest deference, where most
particularly it ought to be paid *. It was about
the year I709 that somebody, speaking of France,
said what, as possibly you do not recollect, I will
tell you — when, we meet.
As this is a season when every body means
to be a man of business, so far as to obtain
power and emolument, it is right to affect a
style of importance : if, which I do not expect,
it should obtain me a place, that place will give
me the same consequence it has procured to
beings full as insignificant as myself. My com-
pliments to Mrs. Harriet {Hotham). Lady Buck
ingham and Mrs. Hobart desire me to say more
than this leaf will hold.
Your ever affectionate nephew,
Buckingham.

" Lord B. was correct in his surmise : this administration
existed little more than twelve months.
' He means to the King.

296 —1765—
EARL OF BUCKINGHAM TO LADY SUFFOLK.

Norwich, Sept. 7, 1765.
DEAR MADAM, I HAVE just come to Norwich, in my
way to ^ Wootton, where I propose to stay two
or three days, and shall be in London next Sa
turday, in order to take my week's * waiting.
My necessary attendance at that time has pre
vented me from paying my duty to his majesty
sooner, as the distance is too great for me to
make two journeys so near each other, and I
should not choose a London residence of three
weeks at this time of the year.
I am rather in the pensive mood, arising,
perhaps, from my body's having too much em
ployment, and my mind too little. You hinted
to me some time ago that my correspondence
was not near so good now I am returned to
England as when I was in Russia. The reasons
are obvious; things are always the more esteemed
the further they come from; and the relation of
events will always be more entertaining when
the writer is at such a distance as leaves some

¦ Wootton-Under-Wood, in Bucks, the family seat of the
Grenvilles, and now the residence of Mr. George Grenville.
' Lord Buckinghamshire was a lord of the bedchamber to
Geo. 11. and continued in that office by Geo. III. till 1767,
when he resigned.

—1765— 297
scope for his imagination to play, without any
danger of the little ornamental fictions with
which he dresses his pictures being discovered.
The last letter I received from George Gren
ville mentioned Mrs. ^ Grenville's having been
ill, but I hope to find her perfectly recovered.
Make my best compliments to Mr. Chetwynd
and Mrs. Harriet.
Your ever affectionate nephew,
Buckingham.

THE EARL OF BUCKINGHAM TO LADY
SUFFOLK.

Sept. 30, 1765.
DEAR MADAM, Mr. and Mrs. Hobart^ came
here the night before last. We were all rejoiced
to find so good an account of you in Miss

" Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Wm. Wyndham, the mother of
the first Marquis of Buckingham, and of Lord Grenville. She
died at Wootton in 1769.
' Probably his lordship's brother, Henry Hobart, and his
wife, Anne Margaret Bristow, to whom he was married in
1761, and who died in 1788. Mr. Hobart died in 1799,
M. P. for Norwich, and chairman of the committee of ways
and means.

298 _1765—
Harriet's letter, which I received yesterday
at Norwich, where I dined with a new sheriff
upon turbot, venison, swan, and turkey, which
it was strongly enjoined me to wash down
with copious draughts of Lusitanian wine.
You are certainly scholar enough to know
that I am giving an elegant classical name
to a coarse homely liquor. Perhaps if it was
always called by that name, the tasteless ma
jority of drunkards would prefer it to the juices
of other grapes, which, less potent, cannot so
soon produce the desired consummation of in
toxication. In spite of the cordial entreaties
of my landlord, I remained sober, and reached
Blickling time enough to see the « chit you so
kindly inquire after, before her hour of sleep.
Lady Buckingham is tolerably well, and most
intolerably lazy : she will have her own way ;
and I am so very fond of mine, that I dare not
press her too far, for fear of retaliation ; a man
ner of vindicating their rights, to which in all
times, and upon every occasion, offended ladies
have been eager to recur. As yet she will not
determine whether she will come to London
in December or January, insinuating that it de
pends upon a circumstanced What that cir-

2 Henrietta (Lady Ancram) his eldest daughter by his first
marriage. ' Her ladyship was jiregnant, and suffered a miscarriage in
the next month.

—1765— 299
cumstance may be, I do not exactly compre
hend. An ill-bred philosophic friend of mine
was pleased to say, that he never gave himself
the trouble to unravel the flimsy thread of fe
minine mysteries. I neither approved his idea
nor his expressions, as I can well remember the
pleasure I took in penetrating through the silken
web with which even the most innocent delight
to veil their meaning. Pray does your little
silkworm, Harriet, begin to spin? I am per
suaded she will very soon.- Leave the country
as soon as the bad weather begins ;
And believe me, &c.
Buckingham,
As bread and' coals are so dear, I thought it
as well to send you the * enclosed.

MR. HORACE WALPOLE TO LADY SUFFOLK.
[Vol. ii. p. 254.]

Paris, Oct. 16, 1765.
Though I begin my letter to-day, madam, it
may not be finished and set out these four days ;
but serving a tyrant, who does not allow me
many holiday-minutes, t am forced to seize the
* What this was does not appear.

sou —1765—
first that offer. Even now, when I am writing
upon the table, he is giving me maUcious pinches
under it.
I was exceedingly obliged to Miss Hotham
for the favour of her letter, though it did not
give me so good an account of your ladyship as
I wished. I will not advise you to come to
Paris, where, I assure you, one has not a nip
less of the gout than at London, and where it
is rather more difficult to keep one's chamber
pure, (water not being reckoned here one of
the elements of cleanliness.) If ever my Lady
Blandford and I make a match, I shall insist
on her coming hither for a month first, to learn
patience '. I need have a great stock, who have
only travelled from one sick bed to another;
who have seen nothing ; and who hear of no
thing but the braveries of Fontainebleau, where
the *Duc de Richelieu, whose year it is, has
ordered seven new operas, besides other shows.
However, if I cannot be diverted, my ruin at
least is protracted, as I cannot go to a single
shop.

' Seean^e, p. 291.
" Duke of Richelieu, celebrated for his gallantry, in both
senses of the word, and for the great age to which he main
tained his health and spirits. He was one of the gentlemen
of the bedchamber, in whose department these amusements
were.

—1765- 301
sLady Mary Chabot has been so good as to
make me a visit. She is again gone into the
country till November, but charged me over
and over to say a great deal for her to your
ladyship, for whom she expresses the highest
regard. *Lady Brown is still in the country too;
but as she loves laughing more than is fashion
able here, I expect her return with great im
patience. As I neither desire to change their
religion or government, I am tired of their per
petual dissertations on those subjects.
As when I was here last, which, alas ! is four-
and-twenty years ago, I was much at Mrs.
Hayes's, I thought it but civil to wait on her,
now that her situation is a little less brilliant.
She was not at home, but invited me to supper
next night. The moment she saw me I thought
I had done very right not to neglect her, for
she overwhelmed me with professions of her
fondness for me and all my family. When the
first torrent was over, she asked me if I was son
of the Horace Walpole that had been ambas-

' Daughter and coheiress of John Paul Howard, fourth Earl
of Staffiard, married to the Count de Rohan-Chabot. She died
in May, 1769.
* Probably Miss Cecil, daughter of the Bishop of Bangor,
and great-grand-daughter of the third Lord Salisbury, relict of
Sir Robert Browne.

.S02 _1765—
sador here ? I said, " No ; he was my uncle."
" Oh ! then you are he that I used to call my
Neddy?" " No, madam ; I believe that is n)y
brother." "Your brother! what is my Lord
Walpole?" "My cousin, madam," "Your
cousin ! why then who are you ?" I found that
if I had omitted my visit, her memory of me
would not have reproached me much.
'Lord aaad Lady Fife are expected here every
day from Spa ; but we hear nothing certain yet
of their ® graces of Richmond, for whom I am a
little impatient ; and for pam too, who, I hope,
comes with them. In French houses it is im
possible to meet with any thing but whist, which
I am determined never to learn again. I sit
by and yawn, which however is better than
sitting at it to yawn.
I hope to be able to take the air in a few
days ; for though I have had very sharp pain,
and terrible nights, this codicil to my gout pro
mises to be of much shorter duration than what
I had in England, and has kept entirely to my
feet. My diet sounds like an English farmer's,
being nothing but beef and pudding ; in truth

* James, second Earl of Fife, and his lady Dorothea, only
daughter of Alexander, Earl of Caithness.
^ Charles, third Duke of Richmond, and his lady, Mary
Bruce, daughter of Lord Aylesbury and Lady Caroline Camp
bell. See vol. i. p. 56.

—1765— 303
the beef is bouilli, and the pudding bread. This
last night has been the first in which I have got
a wink of sleep before six in the morning : but
skeletons can live very well without eating or
sleeping; nay, they can laugh too, when they
meet with a jolly mortal of this world.
Mr. Chetwynd, I conclude, is dancing at
country balls and horse-races. It is charming
to be so young''; but I do not envy one whose
youth is so good-humoured and good-natured.
When he gallops post to town, or swims his
horse through a mill-pool in November, pray
make my compliments to him, and to Lady
Blandford and ^Lady Denbigh. The joys of
the gout do not put one's old friends out of
one's head, even at this distance.
I am, &c. Hor. Walpole.

' See ante, pp. 152 and 293.
^ See ante, p, 282. Ladies Blandford and Denbigh were
sisters, neighbours of Lady Suffijlk and Mr. Walpole.

301 —1765-

THE EARL OF BUCKINGHAM TO LADY.,
SUFFOLK.

Nov. the 10th, 1765.
DEAR MADAM, I FEEL myself at this instant
in the most indolent, good-for-nothing humour
possible ; and though there is no person in the
universe to whom I more willingly communicate
my ideas and no-ideas than to your ladyship,
yet much languid deliberation has preceded my
taking the pen in hand, and great resolution is
necessary to keep it in motion. There is also
a strange kind of merit in laying down a book
full of superior sense, to fill a sheet of paper
with flat nonsense ; but it is a merit which
arises from duty rightly placed, and a desire to
testify affection : and so much for my intro
duction. You will not be surprised when I tell you
that the Cardinal de Retz was the person whose
society I have just quitted, that my thoughts
are full of him, and that, however favourably I
may think of the morality of our modern poli
ticians, their abilities are shaded even by the
attempt of a comparison with him. His mo
rality, and indeed his judgment, cannot in every
instance be applauded ; but I should prefer his
parts, his presence of mind, and his comprehen-

—1765— 305
sion, to those of any man whom reading or con
versation has made known to me.
Hajying nothing particular to say of mysejf,
it is necessary for me to condescend to treat of
other beings, animate and inanimate. Lady
Buckingham and ^ Lady Dorothy are as well as
may be, and are laughing a great deal at some
thing very little in the next room. They have
but one young man with them at present, whom
they meritoriously cherish ; nor do they quarrel
about the single sheep, as I have promised them
at least two more on Tuesday next.
The alterations in the eating-room go on :
Gothic it was, and more Gothic it will be, in
spite of all the remonstrances of modern im
provers and lovers of Grecian architecture. The
ceiling is to be painted with the loves of Cupid
and Psyche. Cupid is to hover exactly over
the centre of the table, to indicate to the maitre
d'hotel the exact position of the venison pasty.
I have determined what is to be done with the
hall, which you ought to approve, and indeed
must approve. Some tributary sorrow should
however be paid to the nine worthies ; but
Hector has lost his spear and his nose, David
his harp, Godfrey of Boulogne his ears, Alex
ander the Great his highest shoulder, and part

' His sister.
VOL. II.

306 —1765—
of Joshua's belly is fallen in. As the ceiling is
to be raised, eight of them must have gone, and
Hector is at all events determined to le^ve his
niche. You will forgive my replacing them with
eight worthies of my own times, whose figures
are not as yet essentially mutilated, viz. Dr.
Shebbeare, Mr. Wilkes, Dr. Hill, Mr. Glover, Mr,
Dep. Hodges, Mr. Whitfield, Justice Fielding,
and Mr. Foote ; and as Anna Boleyn was born
at Blickling, it will not be improper to purchase
her father Henry the Eighth's figure (which by
order is no longer to be exhibited at the Tower),
who will fill with credit the space occupied by
the falling Hector.
Your ever affectionate nephew,
Buckingham.
Compliments to Mrs. Harriet.

THE EARL OF BUCKINGHAM TO LADY
SUFFOLK.

[Blickling, Nov. 1765.]
DEAR MADAM, You must be thanked imme
diately for the last fiattering mark of your good
ness ; and though, according to the alternate

—1765— 307
practice I have long adopted, this in course is
tragedy's turn, and I should write in the dole
ful strain, yet I am so pleased with you and
your health, that, in spite of rule, some cheer
fulness will break out ; and therefore, instead
of exclaiming at base ingratitude, and pathe
tically lamenting that others interestedly refuse
me any return for what I in some sort interest
edly did, as I expected in due time some return
for it ; I can only say I feel myself a man " more
sinned against than sinning;" adding always the
good gossip's comfort, that though I have done
this, I never did that ; and, bad as I am, I am
better than many of my neighbours. Nothing
is as yet resolved with regard to the removal of
my family ; but you will probably see me in
about a fortnight. My stay depends upon cir
cumstances, and if that stay is long, my family
will follow me, and settle for the winter.
Nothing is more amusing than to see numbers
of workmen within and without doors : it is not
exactly the same thing to pay their bills. I have
numbers of workmen employed around me, and
in consequence am amused and ruined. Lady
Buckingham and Lady Dorothy have entered
into a conspiracy against the old chimney-piece
in the eating-room. Their little intrigues can
never shake ray settled purpose, but they tease
me, and your authority is necessary to silence
them. The countess, not choosing to have a
X 2

308 —1765—
whole horse to herself, has signified her inten-
rion of airing upon a pillion, and we are now m
quest of a horse who will take up the odds'.
Lady Dorothy has borrowed the ale-wife's gray
nag, which she prefers, as his complexion is best
suited to winter roads. /Lady Harriet is gone
to Mr. Laton's upon a visit. She is as proud as
Lucifer, which it is insinuated she takes from
her father. So much for all these ladies, and
one word more to assure you of every good
wish Of your affectionate nephew,
Buckingham.
The accounts of Mrs. Grenville give me
great uneasiness.

LADY SUFFOLK TO LORD BUCKINGHAM.

Nov. 28, [1765.]
Another letter from the old woman ! How
ever, it is short. What does she say ? — That she
is sure Lord B. will stay in town ; his family
may follow, for he will not go to fetch them : a
friend of his thinks so. That friend has suffered

' Two to one. " See ante, p. 298.
1 Probably Mr. George Grenville.

1765— 309
greatly, and is not yet easy. Lady S. promised
to take upon her all the blame for the omission
of writing. Her eyes and head are not well to
day, nor does she ever hear any thing that pleases
her, or that she thinks could please him. As he
is a very wise man, she begs he will unriddle
her letter, for she cannot. Poor Adam had but
one Eve, and yet he fell: Lord B. has two;
great danger ! especially as his counsellor and
bosom-friend, Lady Harriot, is absent.
Compliments to the family. Your letters both
amuse and please me.

THE EARL OF BUCKINGHAM TO LADY
SUFFOLK.

Dec. 3, 1765.
DEAR MADAM, This is the eighth letter of the day ;
the only one it was not necessary for me to
write, and, partly from contradiction and partly
from other feelings, the only one I was deter
mined not to omit writing. Prudentially there
fore I left it to the last, as any other which had
been left to the last would at all events have
been put off.
I shall be in town in a very few days, and then
shall determine the stay of my family in Norfolk ;

310 _1765—
for, may no 'alterations happen ? and has every
thing turned out for these last four years exactly
in the way we expected the week before ?
Lady B. and Lady Dorothy propose to burn
the old chimney-piece in my absence. Let them
at their peril ; for you will resent it as well as I.
The joiner had put an earl's coronet over the
door ; but it is ordered to be changed into a
bull. Lady B. and my sister's decency proposed
a cow ; but to compromise the matter, direc
tions are given to the carver to make it as like
an ox as heraldry will admit "-
You say you are pleased with my letters (not
with my letters literally speaking) : if you are
pleased with this, you will give me a good
opinion of your understanding, and a far better
of your good-nature and benevolence to
Your affectionate nephew,
Buckingham.

' He means political changes.
' The family crest is a bull passant, party per pale sable
and gules, all bezanty, and a ring, or, in his nose.

—1765- 311
MR. HORACE WALPOLE TO LADY SUFFOLK.

[Vol. ii. p. 254.]

Paris, Dec. 5, 1 765, but does not set
out till the nth.
MADAM, Miss Hotham need not be in pain
for what to say when she gives me an account of
your ladyship, which is all the trouble I thought
of giving her. If she could make those accounts
more favourable, I should be better pleased ;
but I know what an untractable brute the gout
is, and the joy it takes in plaguing every body
that is connected with it. -We have the sharpest
frost here that ever lived ; it has done me great
good; and, if it has the same effect on your
ladyship, I hope you are starved to death.
Since' Paris has begun to fill in spite of Fon
tainebleau, I am much reconciled to it, and have
seen several people I like. I ara established in
two or three societies, where I sup every night ;
though I have still resisted whist, and ara more
constant to my old flame loo during its ab
sence than I doubt I have been to my other pas
sions. There is a young Comtesse d'Egraont,
daughter of Marshal Richelieu, so pretty and
pleasing, that if I thought it would break any
body's heart in England, I would be in love

31 '2 —1765—
with her. Nay, madam, I might be so within
all rules here. I ara twenty years on the right
side of red-heels, which her father wears still •,
and he has still a wrinkle to come before he
leaves them off.
The 'dauphin is still alive, but kept so only
by cordials. Yet the queen and dauphiness have
no doubt of his recovery, having the Bishop
of Glandeve's word for it, who got a promise
from a vision under its own hand and seal. The
dauphin has certainly behaved with great courage
and tranquillity, but is so touched with the ten
derness and attention of his family, that he now
expresses a wish to live.
If there is no talk in England of politics and
parliaments, I can send your ladyship as much
as you please from hence ; or if you want English
themselves, I can send you about fifty head;
and I assure you we shall still be well stocked.
There were three card-tables full of lords, la
dies, gentlemen and gentlewomen, the other
night at ^ Lady Berkeley's, who keeps Tuesdays.

' See ante, p. 300.
2 Louis, son of Louis XV. and father of Louis XVI. and
XVIII. He died at Fontainbleau on the 20th of Dec. 1765.
The dauphiness died in less than two years after.
^Elizabeth Drax, widow of Augustus, fourth Earl of Berkeley,
with whom we have been acquainted in the first volume as
Lord Dursley. She married a second time Nugent Lord
Clare.

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* Lord Berkeley is arrived, and much improved
both in his person and manner. The Duke of
Buccleugh* is expected next week.
The house of Richmond is gone to Aubign6
for a week, as the duchess will not have her
audience till ,the dauphin's fate is decided. I
did not dare to accompany them at this time of
year after all I have suffered.
Yesterday I dined at La Borde's, the great
banker of the court. Lord ! madam, how little
and poor all your houses in London will look
after his ! In the first place, you must have a
garden half as long as the Mall, and then you
must have fourteen windows, each as long as
the other half, looking into it, and each window
must consist of only eight panes of looking-glass.
You must have a first and second ante-chamber,
and they must have nothing in them but dirty
servants. Next must be the grand cabinet,
hung with red damask, in gold frames, and co
vered with eight large and very bad pictures,
that cost four thousand pounds — I cannot afford
them you a farthing cheaper. Under these, to
give an air of lightness, must be hung bas-reliefs

¦• Frederick Augustus, fifth earl, born 1745, succeeded to
the title in 1755.
5 Henry, third duke, born in 1746, succeeded his father in
1751, married in 1767 Lady Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the
last Duke of Montague.

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in marble. Then there must be immense ar-
moires of "tortoiseshell and or-molu, inlaid with
medals. And then you may go into the petit-
cabinet, and then into the great salle, and the
gallery, and the bilUard-room, and the eating-
room ; and all these must be hung with crystal
lustres and looking-glass from top to bottom ;
and then you must stuff them fuller than they
will hold with granite tables, and porphyry urns,
and bronzes, and statues, and vases, and the
L — d or the devil knows what. But, for fear
you should ruin yourself or the nation, the
Duchess de Grammont must give you this, and
Madame de Marsan that; and if you have any
body that has any taste to advise you, your
eating-room must be hung with huge hunting-
pieces in frames of all-coloured golds, and at
top of one of them you may have a setting-dog,
who, having sprung a wooden partridge, it may
be flying a yard off against the wainscot. To
warm and light this palace, it must cost you
eight-and-twenty thousand livres' a year in wood
and candles. If you cannot afford that, you
must stay till ray Lord Clive returns with the
rest of the Indies,
The mistress of this Arabian Nights' Enter-

* This manufacture is called Boule (erroneously Buhl) from
the name of an artist who worked for Louis XVI.
' About 1200/.

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tainment is very pretty, and ^Sir Laurence La
Borde is so fond of her, that he sits by her at
dinner, and calls her Pug, or Taw, or, I forget
what. Lady Mary Chabot always charges me to
mention her to your ladyship with particular
attention. There are some to whom I could
wish your ladyship would do rae the sarae good
office ; but I have been too troublesome already,
and will only mention Miss Hotham, Mr. Chet
wynd, Lady Blandford, and St. Jaraes's-square.
Your ladyship's, &c.
Hor. Walpole.

MR. HORACE WALPOLE TO LADY SUFFOLK.

Paris, Sept. 20, 1765.
I OBEY your commands, madam, though it is
to talk of myself. The journey has been of
great service to me, and my strength returned
sensibly in two days. Nay, though all my hours
are turned topsy-turvy, I find no inconvenience,
but dine at half an hour after two, and sup at

* His name was Jean Joseph de la Borde ; but Walpole calls
him Sir Laurence, in allusion to some English banker. The
Count de la Borde, whose travels in Spain are so well known,
was the son of the banker.

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ten, as easily as I did in England at my usual
hours. Indeed, breakfast and dinner now and
then jostle one another; but I have found an.
excellent preservative against sitting up late,
which is by not playing at whist. They con
stantly ^ tap a rubber before supper, get up in
the middle of a game, finish it after a meal of
three courses and a dessert ; add another rubber
to it ; then take their knotting-bags, draw toge
ther into a little circle, and start some topic of
literature or irreligion, and chat till it is time
to go to bed ; that is, till you would think it
time to get up again. The women are very
good-humoured and easy ; most of the men
disagreeable enough. However, as every thing
English is in fashion, our bad French is accepted
into the bargain. Many of us are received
every where. ^ Mr. Hume is fashion itself,
though his French is almost as unintelligible as
his English ; ' Mr. Stanley is extremely liked ;
and if liking them, good-humour and spirits can
make any body please, ^ Mr. Elliot will not fail.
' Walpole was extremely fond of this metaphor, and uses it
indiscriminately. Tapping a rubber of whist is not quite in
such good- taste as tapping a shower in a dry summer at Straw
berry-hill. ' David Hume, who was secretary of embassy to Lord Hert
ford, who had lately been our ambassador to Paris.
3 Right Honourable Hans Stanley, envoy to the court of
Versailles. ¦* Afterwards Sir Gilbert, and first Lord Minto.

—1765— 317
For my own part, I receive the greatest civilities,
and in general am much araused. But I could
wish there was less whist, and soraewhat raore
cleanliness. My Lady Brown and I have diverted
ourselves with the idea of * Lady Blandford here.
I am convinced she would walk upon stilts for
fear of coming near the floors, and that would
rather be a droll sight.
The town is extremely empty at present, our
manners having gained so much in that respect
too, as to send them all into the country till
winter. Their country-houses would appear to
me no more rural than those in Paris. Their
gardens are like deserts, with no more verdure
or shade. What trees they have are stripped
up, and cut straight at top ; it is quite the mas
sacre of the innocents. Their houses in town
are all white and gold arid looking-glass : I never
knew one from another, ® Madame de Mire-
poix's, though small, has the most variety, and
a little leaven of English.
You see, madam, it will take some time to
make me a perfect Frenchman. Upon the
whole, I am very well araused, which is all I
seek besides my health, I am a little too old to

* Lady Blandford, as our readers recollect, was a Dutch
lady. " The Mareschal, Duchesse de Mirepoix, sister of the Prince
de Beauveau.

318 —1765—
be inquiring into their government or politics,
being come hither, not to finish my studies, but
to forget them. One may always take one's
choice here ; old folks may be as young as they
please, and the young as wise as they will. The
former not only suits my age better, but my
inclination, though the bon ton here is to be
grave and learned.
When Miss Hotham, to whom I beg my best
compliraents, is so good as to acknowledge the
receipt of this, I raust desire her to direct to her
and your ladyship's most obedient humble ser
vant, Hor. Walpole,
thus :— "A Monsieur
Monsieur Walpole,
Recommand6e a Monsieur Foley, Banquier,
k Paris."
P, S. The most I ask of a letter is a par
ticular account of your ladyship's health.

MR. HORACE WALPOLE TO LADY SUFFOLK.

Thursday, July 10, 1766.
Yesterday the administration's year was com
pleted, and yesterday the administration ended.

—1766— 319
His majesty declared to thera that he had sent
for Mr. Pitt, Nothing more is known, nor will
be till his arrival. The event itself is but little
known yet in town. The succeeding days will
be a little more busy ; and your ladyship may
guess what curiosity and expectation will be
raised till the list appears. I knew yesterday
that something was ready to burst out, as I be
lieve your ladyship perceived, though I could
not tell what. If Mr. Pitt does not arrive by
Saturday, I shall be at Twickenham that day,
and will see you in the evening. If he does, I
cannot be so unfashionable as to quit the town
when every body will be coming to it, though I
have nothing else to do than to amuse myself,
except being very glad, for reasons I will tell
you. Yours, &c,
Hor. Walpole.

LADY TEMPLE TO LADY SUFFOLK.
[Vol.i. p. 316.] June 22, [1766.]
MY DEAR LADY SUFFOLK,
I DID not much like your state of
health for some time before I left London, and

320 —1766—
therefore send this to inquire after you. My
kind inquiry should have been by word ol
mouth — I should say our — for my lord intended
to visit Marble Hill as well as myself, if our stay
in town had been longer after you went away ;
but business put a negative to our great pleasure.
Do not strain your poor eyes to answer this, but
let the best of girls do it for you. — I cannot
guess who that is ; some say Miss Hothara ; but
I cannot think it : because, if she deserved that
appellation, she would have put pen to paper to
have informed me of you, as she knew I was
Uneasy about you when I left London.
We have ^ Swift's Letters. I do not think they
are marvellous by way of writing ; but enter
taining, from the various anecdotes of those
tiraes. There are two from you ; I think but
2 two ; and several frora Lady Betty. Yours
and hers are indeed very pretty, very amiable,
and worth all the rest of the book ; so I do not
wonder they were unwilling to leave them out.
To my great surprise, I found it dedicated to
my Lord Temple. He says last year the man
wrote to him frora Ireland, to desire to dedicate
Swift's Letters to hira, and he answered he

' The edition of Swift's Letters, in three vols, published in
July, 1766, and dedicated to Lord Temple by Mr. Thomas
Wilkes, a bookseller, who had obtained these letters.
^ See ante, pp. 43 and ft A.

—1766— sn
might do as he pleased, but never thought more
of it from that time to their coming out ; so
that when he called to bring the book he was
at first not admitted. But had my lord been
apprised that Lady Betty's and your letters had
been amongst them, he would not have suffered
his name to have been put in the frontispiece
without the approbation of both. I am, &c.
A. Temple.

MR. HORACE WALPOLE TO LADY SUFFOLK.

Arlington-street,
Thursday morning, [July 17, 1766.]
Not an inch of the curtain is drawn up yet,
madam. Mr. Pitt has a fever at Mr. Dineley's,
at Hampstead. Lord Temple arrived on Mon
day, and has been with the fever two or three
times ; but whether he has caught any of it or
not remains an impenetrable mystery. Nobody
comes to town ; in short, all is dumb show
hitherto. ' Lady Montrath is dead. She has left a mort
gage of 40,000/. which she had on the Devon-

' Probably Diana Newport, daughter of the first Earl of
Bradford, widoAv of Algernon Coote, Earl of Mountrath.
VOL. II. Y

.¦3^2 — 1766 —
shire estate to " Lord John Cavendish, whom she
never saw but twice ; Twickenham Park to Lord
^ Frederick, his brother ; but he must permit it to
be inhabited by the Duchess of * Montrose till
the Duke of Newcastle dies, when the Duchess
of * Newcastle is to occupy it ; and when she
dies — ^for Lady Montrath has settled all their
deaths by entail — the Duchess of Montrose is to
return to it, and after her Lord Frederick is to
enjoy it. She leaves a thousand pounds a year
to her son, whora she makes residuary legatee,
as she makes Lord John executor. But she
gives six hundred a year in land to Lord Milton's
youngest son, and threescore thousand pounds
in small legacies. I do not know, madam,
whether you and I have any as neighbours, or as
not being acquainted with her.
I wish much that our state puppet-show would
begin or end : I wish to see the first scene or
last, and return to the country; the town is
empty and dull, and we live upon idle guesses.

= Third son of the third Duke of Devonshire, who had lately
been a lord of the treasury, and was chancellor of the ex
chequer in the coalition administration.
' The third son. He died in 1 803, a field-marshal in the army.
'* Lady Lucy Manners, daughter of the second Duke of Rut
land, married in I 742.
^ Henrietta Godolphin, grand-daughter of the great Duke of
Marlborough. She died in 1776, having survived her hus
band ei^t years.

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I forget that 6 Mr. Cambridge must have pro
bably told you all my news, or no news ; but at
least, the will will serve you to answer some of
my 7 Lady Tweedale's questions. Yours, Sec. W. H.
Thursday evening.
Lord Temple is not a good febrifuge. What
ever passed between them yesterday, Mr. Pitt
is ..ranch worse to-day, and sees nobody; not
even the ^ Duke of Grafton, who arrived this
morning. If any one knows the secret, it is
Mr. Graham, the apothecary.

® Richard Owen Cambridge, the author of the Scribbleriad,
who resided near Marble Hill. He died in 1 802.
' Frances, daughter of the celebrated Lord Carteret, widow
of John, fourth Marquis of Tweedale, whom she survived a
great many years. She first resided at Twickenham, and
afterwards at Ham. She was a lady of much eccentricity,
and a very inquisitive visitor. She died in 1788.
° Augustus Henry, third Duke of Grafton, was first lord of
the treasury in the administration formed about this time.
Mr. Pitt (created Earl of Chatham) was lord privy seal.

'324 ^1766-

MR. HORACE WALPOLE TO LADY SUFFOLK.

Bath, Oct. 6, 1766.
MADAM, Your ladyship ordered me to give
you an account of myself, and I can give yoy a
very good one. The waters agree with me as
well as possible, and do not heat nie. All I have
to complain of is, that they have bestowed such
an appetite upon me that I expect to return as
fat as a hog ; that is, something bigger than a
lark. I hope this state of my health will content
your ladyship, and that you are not equally
anxious about my pleasure, which does not go
on quite so rapidly. I ara tired to death of the
place, and long to be at home, and grieve to lose
such a delightful October. The waters agree
so well with the trees in this country that they
have not a wrinkle or a yellow leaf, and the sun
shines as brightly as it can possibly through such
mists. I regret its beams being thrown away
on such a dirty ditch as their river,
I have not yet been at ball-rooms or pump-
rooms ; for I steal my glass at the Cross Bath.
We have all kind of folk here; Lord Chatham,

—1766— 3^5
the * Chancellor, the Mowager-Chancellor, Lady
Rockingham ^ ?Lady Scarborough, Lord and
*Lady Powis, Lord and Lady 'Spencer, judges,
bishops, and ' Lady Vane. It is ray own fault if
I do not keep the best company, for the mayor
of the town has invited me to his feast. But, as
I cannot be inconstant to the mayor of Lynn % I
' Charles Pratt, first Lord Camden.
^ Robert Henley, first Lord Northington, from whom the
seals had been taken at the late change.
^ Either Mary, daughter and heiress of Thomas Bright, of
Badsworth, in Yorkshire, who was married, in 1752, to the
second Marquis of Rockingham ; or I^ady Mary Finch, fifth
daughter of the Earl of Winchelsea and Nottingham, the widow
of the first marquis.
¦* Barbara, sister of Sir Geo. Saville, married in 1752 to the
fourth Earl of Scarborough. She died at Bath, in ] 773.
" Henry Arthur Herbert, first earl ; and Barbara Herbert,
niece of the last Marquis of Powis. They were the parents of
Lady Henrietta Antonia, wife of Edward, second Lord Clive,
created in 1804 Earl of Powis.
° John, first Earl Spencer, married in 1756 to Georgiana
Poyntz. They wefe the parents of the present Lord Spencer
and the late Duchess of Devonshire. See Walpole's Letters to
Montague for an amusing account of the pomp of their nuptial
procession. ' This too celebrated lady, the profligate wife of a profligate
husband, was the daughter of Mr. Hawes, a South-sea director.
She was first married to Lord William Hamilton, and secondly
William, second Viscount Vane, a younger branch of Lord
Darlington's family. Lord Vane died in 1 789 ; the lady some
years earlier.
" A borough in which the Walpole family had a predominant
interest.

SQQ —1766—
have sent an excuse, with such a deplorable
account of my health, that it will require all my
paleness and leanness to bear me out.
Lord Chatham has still a little gout in his
arra, but takes the air. My Lord President^ goes
to the balls ; but I believe had rather go to the
alehouse. Lady Vane, I hear, opens the balls ;
since it is too late for her now to go any where
else. This is all I know of people I have not seen.
As I shall not stay above a fortnight longer, I
do not propose to learn the language. I hope
to find your ladyship in perfect health at my
return ; but though the banks of the Thames
are a little pleasanter than those of the Avon,
I beg you will not sit by the former till mid
night. The Bath is sure of doing me some
good ; for I shall take great care of myself, for
fear of being sent hither again.
I am, &c.
Hor. Walpole.

* Robert Henley, Earl of Northington, late Lord Chan
cellor.

¦1720— 327

The five following letters, written as it
were in masquerade, are here collected out
of their dates, as not falUng in with the ge.^
neral course of the correspondence.

LORD STANHOPE TO MRS. HOWARD'S DOG.

fThis is a reply, written when Lord Chesterfield was very
young, to a letter addressed to him in the name of Mrs.
Howard's lap-dog, announcing her accouchement.'}

Bath, Sept. 5.
DEAR MARQUISE, I RECEIVED with a great deal
of pleasure the account of your happy delivery,
and (as I judge by the brevity and conciseness)
frora some fair hand of your acquaintance.
I always thought epistolary correspondence
the properest with those of your species, which
makes me glad of this opportunity to congra
tulate you upon this occasion at a ' distance,
' Lord Chesterfield did not love dogs.

328 _1720—
where I cannot have your answer by word of
mouth, I have no rules to give you for your
conduct in the month but to avoid all noise as
much as possible, and therefore I would only
recommend to you the company of that laconic
- lady who sent me that very short relation of
your labour, unless you find some few others
(which possibly you may) of equal taciturnity.
I beg of you not to be at all concerned at
any insinuations that may be thrown out, that
your issue does not bear that resemblance to
the father which it ought. Many salvos might
be found out for it, if necessary ; but it is very
long since any wise mother has been very un
easy, or any prudent husband too inquisitive,
as to affairs of that kind. The great tenderness
I hear you have shown towards your little
nursery, is never enough to be commended ;
and as it may be an example for many parents
to follow, and others to blush at, so ought it to
be said to your honour, that you use your dogs
like children, while they use their children like
dogs. But, alas ! the care you have hitherto
taken relates only to their bodies. The great
concern is still to come ; I mean the forming of
their minds. As to which, I look upon it as
their peculiar advantage, and your happiness.

' Mrs. Howard.

—1720— 329
(notwithstanding what some grave authors as
sert to the contrary), that they are to have their
education in a court, a court that  ; but as
I have the honour to be one of it, I must not
give it its due commendations. As example is
better than precept, you will there have an op
portunity to set before their eyes examples of
all kinds. It is impossible but that, among the
number of ladies you daily converse with, you
may point out to your two female little Ones
some virtues to imitate, and many faults to
avoid ; above all, show them the inconveniences
of a snappish and snarling disposition, especially
in their sex ; and if you can produce exaraples,
it would not be amiss neither to caution them
against over-discretion, which you may enforce
by assuring them, that had you been over-nice,
they had not been at all, and you had died a
maid. As for your issue male, they will likewise
reap very great and glorious advantages from
example ; for were you only to set before them
the nine lords', you may make them very accom
plished puppies ; but you may with very good
success take a greater latitude, and borrow very
useful hints from several others of the family.
While they are little you cannot do better than

' Of the Prince's bedchamber.

330 —1720—
let them play with the * secretary; but when
they come to dog's estate, bid them imitate,
and, if possible, emulate, the magnanimity and
fortitude of ' Herbert and ® Belhaven, that they
may one day be justly promoted to the dignity
of house dogs. In short, that your progeny
may in time be both the ornaments and the
guardians of the Lodge, is the hearty and sin
cere wish of. Yours.

MRS. HOWARD TO LORD STANHOPE,
(as from her dog Marquise, in rejoinder to the foregoing.)

[This letter gives (by contraries) a lively and characteristic
description of the principal persons of the prince's court.]

MY LORD, I AM infinitely obliged to your
lordship for the honour of your letter. I need
not make any excuse for using the same hand
to thank you for it, as I did to acquaint you

* Probably Mr. Molyneux, secretary to the prince, son of
Locke's friend.
* Afterwards ninth Lord Pembroke. See vol. i. p. 1 7.
' John, fourth Lord Belhaven. See vol. i. p. 45.

—1720— 331
with my condition : the knowledge you have of
that, and the high encomiuras you give my
secretary, sufiiciently justify me in my choice ;
but even she, my lord, with alljher loquacity,
wants words to express my gratitude for your
tender concern for your fellow-creatures, my
little progeny ; and I reflected, that the strongest
proof I could give you of the high value I set
on your advice, was immediately to endeavour
to put it in execution : in order to which, I
instantly communicated your letter to the whole
family, and was pleasingly surprised to find the
fair sex unanimously agree each to take their
share in this great work.
Mrs. ^B{ellenden) promises to teach them
the art of memory, a thing highly useful, as she
daily experiences in the management of her
own affairs. ^ Mrs. YL{owe) asserts, that there
is a discreet sort , of dissimulation absolutely
necessary in a court, and what she practises
frequently with great success ; which is, to put
on a gay, cheerful countenance upon little dis
agreeable accidents that sometimes will happen
in conversation. I could not but approve this
innocent fraud, which she engages to teach
1 Mary Bellenden, afterwards Mrs. Campbell. See vol. i.
p. 56.
' Sophia Howe. See vol. i. p. 35.

3S2 —1720-
them. ' To Mrs. C{arteret) is assigned the
charge of deterring them frora all little unthink
ing and unbecoming habits of biting their Hps
and cheeks, which often rob the fair of part of
their charms. To make them mistress of that
philosophy of temper, so necessary in life, all
agreed to be Mrs. "Smith's province. Mrs.
* Se\{wyn) desires to teach them to sing, and
seems confident that, beginning now they are
young, she shall easily form their voices to
the perfection of her own. Neatness in their
persons, and what the world calls clever, na
turally fell to Mrs. "P., and she had it assigned
her, nemine contradicente. The purity of the
French language, and the fulness of the pro
nunciation, is what Mrs. ^ Yi{erbert) undertakes,
provided she may have Mr. " Parthe's assistance.
Miss ^L(epe^) is to guard them from every

' Bridget Carteret. See vol. i. p. 40.
* Jane Smith. See vol. i. p. 38.
* See vol. i. p. 9.
° I know not to whom this alludes.
^ The lady whom we have seen so much of in the course of
these volumes.
° This name in the original is very imperfectly written,
and I know not who the person was.
9 Lady Hervey. See vol. i. p. 181-. We find from Lady
Mary Wortley Montagu's Letters, that, in her youth. Lady
Hervey had the character of affectation.

— 1720— 333
little affectation; but Lord Lumley's little
friend' has a large share in their education. She
is to form them to an easy politeness in every
part of their behaviour, and teach them to be
witty without sharpness or ill-nature ; will de-
ter them from censoriousness, and give them
that sort of generous disposition that despises
trifles, and which so distinguishes people of
quality. I have set my heart on Sir ^ O. for a dancing-
master, and to read authors for their edifica
tion, as he has heretofore done with great suc
cess to himself; but I have no hopes to en
gage the ' secretary for a playfellow. No, no,
my lord, he is strangely altered since you knew
him ; they must be puppies of the first magni
tude to be now admitted to his company.
The great affair of my little females is you see
happily settled ; but I shall endeavour, as they all
at this time pay me a blind obedience, to preserve
my male offspring in their natural siraplicity till
your arrival, and to your care I shall commit
their education. My lord, my ambition goes
no further than that they may resemble you.
What occasion, then, for nine lords, when one

' This, 1 suspect, is Miss Meadows. See vol. i. pp. 60 and
333. " I know not to whom this initial can allude.
' Mr. Molyneux.

334 _1766—
is so proper and all-sufficient for the purpose ?
for let them but imitate you, and they will be
accomplished in all that is necessary to make
their way, and shine in every part of life in
which they can be engaged. Belhaven may
assist you in the point of making them proper
for the house ; but Lord Herbert, you know,
is a novice in that particular.* In the field I
confess he may aid you in their improvement ;
but I shall submit all to your judgment, and
entirely rely upon it.
My lord, give me leave to thank you for your
partiality to my correspondence, and to assure
you that I beg the continuance of that honour ;
and am, with great respect. Yours, &c.
Marquise.

LORD CHESTERFIELD (in the Character of his Foot,
man) TO LADY SUFFOLK.

Bath, Nov. 6, 1766.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR LADYSHIP,
My lord told me as how that it was
your ladyship's orders that I should write you a
¦* Lord Belhaven took a prominent part in politics, while
Lord Herbert was a zealous sportsman : hence the allusion of
the house and the field.

—1766— 335
card to acquaint you how he did after his jour
ney hither; but with submission to his lordship,
I thought that that would be too great a presump
tion in one like me, to a lady of your quality, to
send you such a card as we carry twenty tiraes a
day in town, and therefore I chose the way of a
letter, as the raost respectful of the two. For you
must know, that we London footmen pick up a
sort of second-hand good manners from keeping
good company, and especially from waiting at
table, where we glean up sorae scraps of our
masters' good-breeding — if they have any.
To say the truth, I cannot very well under
stand why my lord would rather employ my
hand than his own in writing to your ladyship ;
and if I dare say so, I think he was a good deal
out in point of breeding ; which I wonder at the
more, because I have heard him say that there
was nobody in the world that he honoured and
respected raore than your ladyship, and that you
was the oldest acquaintance, friend, and fellow-
servant that he had : and indeed, I believe he
spoke what he thought ; for you know he could
have no reason for telling an untruth in my hear
ing, who was not then very likely to have an
opportunity of telling it you again.
But to come to the point, — my lord was very
much fatigued with his journey, not being (as I
heard him say) what he was thirty years ago — I
beUeve he might have saxd fifty. However, he

336 -1766—
is pretty well for him ; but often complains that
he feels a sensible decay both of body and mind,
and, between you and I, I think not without
reason ; for I, who see him every day, can, not
withstanding, observe a considerable alteration
in him, and by no means for the better : and so
I rest, with duty and respect, kc.
Thomas Allen.

HORACE WALPOLE (in the Character of Lady Snfl'olk'.s
Maid) TO LORD CHESTERFIELD."

[Jn answer to the foregoing. The letter is indorsed ' Lndi/
Suffolk to Lord Chesterfield,' but it is in Walpole's hand ;
and the praise of Lady Suffolk certainly never came from
her own pen.]

Lack-a-day, Mister Thomas, I niver was yet
in such a parlous confusion, to be sure now,
in my life's-time. Says my lady's woman, says
she, " Betty, my lady says as how you must write
to Mister Thomas, my Lord Whatdycallums
man." — " Me, ma'am ?" says I. — " Yes," says
she; "you," says she. — " Blessid fathers!" says
I, " I never writ to a man in my days," says I,
" but our farmer, and he can't read ; but I

--1766— 337
knows he gets the doctur to read it for him—
and so that's no sin, you know."—" Nay, nay,"
says she.— "Well, well," says I, " God's will and
my lady's be done.— We poor folks raust do as we
are bid : Heaven is above all ; and if grate folks
makes us do ill, they are ansurable for it." —
Howsumdever, I wishes I had gon to my Lady
' Huntintun ; I mout have bettir'd myself, and
had vails, and gon to Heavn into the bargin.
But I must be a fool, and needs see Lundun
town ; and now see what curas on it. — And so
now I am talkin of Lundun, I wishes you and
your lord were at Old Nick — God forgive me ! —
for here have I been turmoilin and puzelin my
poor brains to write to a Jackadandy, and mist
my Lord Mare's show, and the grate Alderman
Becford, and Lord Timple, and the Duke's
Grace of Northumberlandshire, and all the fine
folks ; and Jeny has seen um, and got a sweet-
hart into the bargin : nay, and what's worserur
and worserur, I supose I shall only be flouted
and jeer'd by you and your fello sarvants ; for
they says as how your lord is the gratest wit in
all England, and so I suppose you fansis yourself
the secund, and will make a mock of a poor girl.
But I says my prairs, and goes to hear Doctur
Madin, and he says if we be scorn'd of man, we

' Selina, Countess of Huntingdon. See ante, p. 244.
VOL. II. Z

338 —1766—
shall get bettir plases in next world, if we cums
with a charactur; and he has been so graseful as
to promis rae one for half-a-crown ; and to be
sure now he shall have the first I gits, aftur I
have bout rae a negligee and a few odd things
that I wants. And so my lady is pure well,
only she coffs a litel now and then, all day long,
and she says, and so says Mister Rusil, our
butler, that your lord may be asham'd of him
self — so he may — to say he grows old ; for he
niver was spritlier in his born days; and to be
sure, between you and I, my lady is hugely fond
of him, and I wishes with all my heart, so I do,
that it prove a match', for she is as good a lady
as ever trod in shoolether : and so, with love to
all frinds — excusin this scraul, I rests
Yours til deth,
Elizabeth Wagstaff.
Mister Thomus Allen.

* It must be confessed that this reversion of a half-crown is
pleasant. 3 Lord Chesterfield was seventy-three, and Lady Sufl'olk
five years older.

-1766— 339

LORD CHESTERFIELD (as his Footman) TO
LADY SUFFOLK.

MADAM, When I made bould to write last to
your ladyship, it was by my lord's order, and,
as he said, by your ladyship's too ; but I fear it
is great presumption in me to trouble you now,
as I do, upon my own account. The case is this :
I received a letter sorae tirae agone from one
Mrs. Wagstaff, whom I am not acquainted with,
and so do not know in what raanner to address
her, but must beg your ladyship's directions,
for fear of offending her. If she is Mrs. with a
surname, she is above the livery, and belongs to
the upper servants; but if she be Mrs. only with
her Christen name — as, Mrs. Betty, Mrs. Mary,
Mrs. Dolly, &c., our cloth often looks as high
as that, and they often condescend to look as
low as us. Now, when I know Mrs.'WagstafF's
station in life, I will either answer her letter, or
refer it to my lord's valet de chamber ; for we of
the cloth have lately improved very much both in
style and propriety, by the great number of cards
that we daily carry to and from the nobility and
gentry, which are models of fine writing.
Now, madam, it is time to give you some
account of my lord, for whom you show so
z 2

340 —1767—
friendly a regard. He is as well as can be ex-
pected in his condition; as is usually said of
ladies in child-bed, or in great affliction for the
death of somebody they did not care for. Now,
I heard his lordship say very lately at table, that
he was seventy-three complete, with a shattered
carcase, as he was pleased to call it. To say
the truth, I believe my lord did live a little too
freely formerly ; but I can assure your ladyship
that he is now very regular, and even more so,
I believe, than I am. But he is still very cheer
ful ; and as an instance of it, a gentleman having
said at table that the women dressed their heads
here three or four stories high — " Yes," said
my lord, " and I believe every story is inhabited,
like the lodging-houses here ; for I observe a
great deal of scratching'." I thought this comical
enough to tell it your ladyship ; and, to confess
the truth, I repeated it as my own to some of
my brethren of the cloth, and they relished it
wonderfully. My lord often mentions your
ladyship with great regard and respect, and
Miss Hothara with great affection and warmth
for an old gentleman. And so I remain, &c.
Thomas Allen.

' Lord Chesterfield rallies, with the good sense of his own
and the coarseness of the assumed character, the fashion of
attributing to him every thing, good, bad, or indiflferent,
which any body said.

-1767— 341

MR. WALPOLE TO LORD STRAFFORD.

[The following letter, announcing the death of Lady Suffolk,
and describing her character and circumstances, seems so
natural and so interesting a conclusion to the correspond
ence, that the Editor has ventured to reprint it from the
5tb vol. of Walpole's Works.]

Strawberry Hill, July 29, 1767.
I AM very sorry that I must speak of a loss
that will give you and Lady Strafford concern ;
an essential loss to me, who am deprived of a
most agreeable friend, with whom I passed here
many hours. I heed not say I mean poor Lady
Suffolk. I was with her two hours on Saturday
night ; and indeed found her much changed,
though I did not apprehend her in danger,
I was going to say she complained — but you
know she never did complain — of the gout
and rheumatism all over her, particularly in her
face. It was a cold night, and she sat below
stairs when she should have been in bed ; and
I doubt this want of care was.prejudicial. I sent
next morning. She had a bad night; but grew

342 —1767—
much better in the evening. Lady ' Dalkeith
came to her; and when she was gone. Lady
Suffolk said to Lord Chetwynd,"^ she would eat
her supper in her bedchamber. He went up
with her, and thought the appearances pro
mised a good night; but she was scarce sat
down in her chair, before she pressed her hand
to her side, and died in half an hour.
I believe both your lordship and Lady Straf
ford will be surprised to hear that she was
by no means in the situation that most people
thought. Lord Chetwynd and myself were the
only persons at all acquainted with her affairs ;
and they were far from being easy, even to her.
It is due to her memory to say, that I never
saw more strict honour and justice. She bore
knowingly the imputation of being covetous, at
a time that the strictest economy could by no
means prevent her exceeding her income con
siderably — the anguish of the last years of her
life, though concealed, flowed from the apprehen
sion of not satisfying her few wishes, which were,
not to be in debt, and to make a provision for

1 Lady Caroline Campbell, fourth daughter of John Duke
of Argyll and Greenwich, widow of the eldest son of the second
Duke of Buccleugh. She afterwards married Charles Town-
send, and was created Baroness Greenwich. She died in 1794.
2 The same gentleman whom the reader is so well acquainted
with as Mr. William Chetwynd. See ante, p. 152.

—1767— 343
Miss Hotham, I can give your lordship strong
instances of the sacrifices she tried to make to
her principles. I have not yet heard if her will
is opened ; but it will surprise those who thought
her rich. Lord Chetwynd's friendship to her
has been unalterably kind and zealous, and is
not ceased. He stays in the house with Miss
Hotham till some of her family come to take
her away.
I have, perhaps, dwelt too long on this sub
ject ; but as it was not permitted me to do her
* justice when alive, I own I cannot help wishing
that those who had a regard for her may now,
at least, know how much more she deserved it
than even they suspected. In truth, I never
knew. a woman more respectable for her honour
and principles, and have lost few persons in my
life whom I shall miss so much.
I am, my dear lord.
Yours most sincerely,
Horace Walpole.

* Walpole certainly felt kindly towards Lady Suffolk; and
it is therefore the more to be regretted that he permitted
himself, nearly thirty years after her death, to record, for the
misguidance of posterity, the scandal which he had picked up
against her in the prejudiced talk of his father's now profligate
table..

APPENDIX

APPENDIX,

ROYAL NURSERY.
[Future antiquarians may perhaps be glad to see the following
Nugce, which have been found in Lady Suffolk's papers,
and which give some details of royal wardrobes an hundred
years ago.] Winter Clothes,
what was delivered yearly for each Princesse.
2 rich coats, embroider'd, trim'd, or rich stuff.
1 velvet or rich silk.
3 coats, brocaded or damask.
A damask night-gown.
2 silk under petticoats, trim'd with gold or silver.

Summer Clothesi
3 flower'd coats, one of them with silver.
3 plain or striped lustrings.
1 night-gown; 4 silk hoops.

The taylor had 2l. for making each coat, and finding all
other necessarys.
Shoes, a pair every week, 6s. 6d. per pair j raised to 7s.
before I left St. James's.
Gloves, 16 dozen in the year, 18*. per dozen.
Fans, no allowance ; but I find they did not exceed 8l. 8s.
per annum.

348
No certain allowance for ribbons or ;irtificial Howers ; but
I find these were very tryfling .articles in my time, which are
not so now.
The pryses of all silks are much higher then they were
formerly : two of the coats were much finer than the other ;
one with another about (illegible) per yard. Damask or satins
from I2s. to 14*. per yard; plain lustring, 6s. 6d. per yard;
Persian, 20d. per yard j ducapes, or armozins, 8s. or [)s. per
yard. I find, by my bills, I paid the tire-woman 12 guineas a
year. I paid tuning the harpsichord, food for their birds, and
many other little things belonging to their royal highnesses,
which was little too trifling to mention ; which, whilst the
duke {of Cumberland) was with them, came to 50^. per annum.
I don't remember what the necessary-woman's sallary was,
or whether she was under the queen's necessary- woman.
The expenses for cleaning their royal highnesses apart"
ment, 18^. a year, paid by me: making shifts, 2s. 6d. each ;
combing clothes. Is. 6d. each ; white petticoats, at ]s. 6d. per
coat ; silk petticoats, 2*. per coat ; night-cap and hood, 1 s. 6d. ;
a drest sute of linen, 20s., if the bib was all lace ; muslines
and lawns were bought as wanted, and no settled price.
6 pair of sheets, 6 pillow-bears at 3*. per ell; a pair of
sheets at 4*. per ell : this linnen was not given away {as a per
quisite to the attendants) till absolutely necessary. Napkins,
towels, and table-linnen were deliver'd every week from his
majesty's house laundress.
Coffee, tea, chocolate, and sugar, what was wanted, sent
from her majesty's backstair room.
Fire and candles of all sorts from the king's oflices.
Their royal highnesses had each a page of honour and
gentleman-usher at 1 00/, sallary.
Each one dresser at 50/., and one chambermaid, I don't
know at what sallary.
One page of the backstairs.
The princess used the queen's coaches, footmen, and grooms.

349

Their Royal Highnesses Princess Mary and Princess Louisa's
Linnen, delivered every two Years for each Princess.

Quantities.
18 day shifts.
18 night shifts trimed.
18 little petticoats, fine
dimity, or Indian quilting,
computed at half-yard wide,
12 pair of thread stockens,
12 night-caps laced,
1 2 hoods cambric Holand,
6 petticoats over hoops,
Indian quilting, about
2 dozen pocket handker
chiefs, cambrick,
10 combing clothes.
Whilst their royal high
nesses were in bibs and aprons
they had six sutes of broad
lace for aprons, but the caps
and rufiles were much nar
rower ; they came to about
It must be remember'd they
had for birth-days very fine
intirelace suits, which came to
Their fine laces were not-
given away {as perquisites)
every two years.

Price.lOs. per ell.
8s. per ell ; the lace 10*. per
yard.

7«.per yard; making 2«. each.
7s. 6d. per pair.
10*. per yard.
14«. per yard ; making \s, 6d.
a suit.
3/.3.s.perpeticoatj making 12s.
Al. 4s. per piece; ' making Is.
14s. per yard; making Is. 6d.

20/. the suit; making 10s.

50/. or 60/. per suit.

» Large as this sum seems, I learn that, within the last week, four guineas
a piece have been given for a set of cambtick pocket handkerchiefs.

350
When any of their royal highnesses was under wet-nurse,
dry-nurse, and rocker's care, they had no dresser or chamber-
maid, nor man-servant, belonging to the cradle-nursery, ex
cept it was a footman.
The clothes and Unnen for the cradle nursery was under
a different regulation at that time. There was no perquisites,
but. linnen and clothes were bought when necessary.

[The following memorandum seems to be the account qf the
expenses of the queen and princesses' wardrobe for two quar
ters.'] Queen June y" 24, 1729 . £847 12
Pm  366 15
£1214 7
Sep^ y 29*.
Queen  8 £308 07 02
P„  216 19 10
£525 07 0
Stockens, 12 pr. 7s. 6d. per pair.
Shoes, plain 6s. 6d.
Shifts, 3 dozen day, 10s.; night, Ss.
Gloves, 1 6 dozen, 1 3«. per dozen.
Little peticoats, 12«.; fine dimity, or Indian quilting.
Washing. — The duke and two princesses 90/. per annum ;
includes the laces, band-boxes, May-dew, brushes, patches,
combs, quilted caps, pins, powder, paper, wax, and several odd
things deliver'd to their royal highness' appartments, I find
came to about 40/. ; paste for hands and pomatum came
from the apothecary, Mr, Jagar's, and was not in my bills.

351
Prises for Her Majesty.
Slipers with gold, 24s. ; with silver, 21s.
Persians, 20d.
Plain gloves, 30</.
Stays, 2s. the pair.
Petticoats, 10 shillings ; 3s, allow'd for ribon.
Night-gowns, 3 shillings.
Girdles, silver, 23s. ; gold, 25s. 8d.
Hollands, for shifts, 10s. 6d.; for handkerchiefs, 1 Is. ; cam
bric Hollands, 24s. j dimity's, about 3s,
Prices for the Prince.
Duke stars, I5s.
Gloves, 18s.
Making coats, 25s,
Duke's shoes, 5s. 6d.
Bath ribbon, Al. 15s. per piece.
Hats, 1/. Is.; feathers, white, 1/. Is.
Other colours, 1/. As.
Hollands, no settled price.

INDEX,

*»* The Roman Numerals refer to the Volumes ; the Arabic
Figures to the Pages in each Volume.

Addison (Mr.), i. 14.
Albemarle (Isa,bella, Lady), notice of, i. 307, 308 note, 367.
Albemarle (William, second Earl of), i. 348.
Albemarle (Anne, second Countess of), ii. 220.
Ancaster (Duke of), i. 24.
Anglesea (Earl of), i. 26.
Anglesea (Arthur Annesley, fifth Earl of), ii. 60.
Anne (Queen), i. 62, 63, Etiquette of her court, 292, 293.
Anne (Princess), i. 295.
Apsley (Lord Chancellor), i. 178.
Arbuthnot (Dr.), notices of, i. 176, 41 1 ; ii. 29. Letters of,
i. 291, 294;ii. 4.
Arbuthnot (George), ii. 4.
Argyll and Greenwich (John Campbell, second Duke of).
Notices of, i, 8, II, 42 ; ii. 60, 119. Letter of, ii. 1 1 9.
Argyll (Archibald Campbell, third Duke of), i. 42.
Argyll (Jane, Duchess of), i. 76, 83.
Argyll (John Campbell, fourth Duke of), i. 43, 87.
Argyll (John Campbell, fifth Duke of), i. 57, 104.
Arundel (Mr.), i. 21.3, and note.
VOL. II. A A

354
Ashburnham (Lady), i. 26.
Asheton (Mr.), i. 38.
Augusta (Princess), ii. 223, 224, 225, 226.
Aylesbury (Countess of), i. 57.

B.

Baillie (Griselda), i. 83 note.
Barber (Mrs.) ii. 12, 15,29.
Barnard (Major), ii. 116, 230.
Bath (Earl of). See Pulteney.
Bath (Lady), ii. 210.
Bath, satirical description of the invalids at, ii. 104 — 106.
Description of the company there, 114 — 118. Rejoicings
there, for the capture of Louisbourgh', 249.
Bathurst (Allan Lord), i. 27. Biographical notices of, 178;
ii. 120. Letters of, i. 178, 275 ; ii. 80, 121.
Bathurst (Benjamin), i. 276, 277, 281.
Bathurst (Peter), i. 276, 277.
Bave (Dr.), i. 408.
Beauclerk (Lord Henry), ii. 218.
Beauclerk (Hon. Aubrey), ii. 255.
Bedford (Duke and Duchess of), ii. 1 87.
Bedingfield (Mrs.), ii. 178, 183. Letter of, i. 256.
Bed-chamber woman to the Queen of England, duty of, i. 292,
293.
Belhaven (John, Lord), Notice of, i. 45.
Bellasis (Lady Susan), i. 112, 188.
Bellenden (Sir Henry), notice of, i. 22 note.
Bellenden (Miss Margaret), i. 29, 61. Letter of, i. 64.
Bellenden (Miss Mary), i. 29 note. Biographical notice ofj
56, 57.
Bentinck (Lady Sophia), i. 307.
Berenger (Mrs.), i. 77.
Berkeley (Augustus, Earl of), ii. 215.

355
Berkeley (Lady), ii. 215.
Berkeley (Hon. George), letters to, from Lady Suffolk, ii.
72, 73, 77, 140, 142, :74, 177, 183, 185, 186.
 Letters by him to Lady Suffolk, ii. 70, 75, 78, 138,
142, 144, 179, 181.'
Letters to him from other persons, i. 1, 5, 16, 72,

201,204, 206,212,316, 330,331,406; ii. 101, 125, 130,
145, 148, 150, 152, 154, 166, 171, 190, 193, 206.
Letters by him to other persons, ii. 90, 91, 168.

Berkeley (James, third Earl of), i. 19 tiote ; ii. 136, 154.
Berkeley (Lady Elizabeth), i. 317.
Berkeley (Lady Penelope), ii. 53, 312.
Berkeley (Mrs.), i. 318.
Berkeley (Hon. Henry), ii. 152.
Blandford (Lady), ii. 170.
Blenheim, anecdote respecting the building of, i. 173 note.
Bleterie's life of Julian the Apostate, character of, ii. 127,
128.
Bloodworth (Thomas, Esq.), notice of, ii. 21.
Blount (Mrs. Martha), notices of, i. 233; ii. 105, 107, 143.
Letter of, i. 233.
Blount (Theresa), i. 233.
Boerhaave (Dr.), i, 294.
Bolingbroke (Lord), i. 343, 399 ; ii. 135. Letter to, ii. 91.
Letter of, ii. 135.
Bolingbroke (the second Lady), notice of, ii. 152. Letters of,
152, 154.
Bolton (Duke of), i. 346.
Booth (Mr. L.), i. 97.
Bootle (Sir Thomas), i. 342; ii. 191.
Bothmar (Baron), i. 63.
Bourbon (Due de), i. 80.
Bourbon (la Duchesse de), i. 80.
Bowles (Mr.), i. 275.
Bradshaw (Mrs.), notice of, i. 26. Letters of, 26, 28, 46, 66,
73,76, 91,96, 100.
Bridgeman (Mr. George), notice of, i. 382 note.
A A 2

356
Bridgewater (Duke of), i. 330.
Brinsden (Mr.), ii. 1 69.
Bristol (Elizabeth, Countess of), anecdotes of, i. 50, 74, 76,
373 ; ii. 39: Letters of, i. 207, 267.
Bristol (Lord), ii. 42.
Britiffe (Miss), i. 259.
Britiffe (Robert), i. 259 ; ii. 206.
Brown (Lady Mary), ii. 301. ¦«
Buccleugh (Henry, Duke of), ii. 313
Buckingham (second Duke of), i. 113.
Buckingham (Katherine, Duchess of), anecdotes of, i. 1 12.
Letter of, 113.
Buckingham (Lady), ii. 288.
Buckinghamshire (Earl of). See Hobart (John).
Buonaparte, i. 291. Remark on his retreat from IMoscow, ii.
128.
Burlington (Richard, third Earl of), notice of, i. 384, 885.
notes.
Burlington (Dorothy, Countess of), ii. 115, 117.
Burton (Dr.), ii, 171, 172.
Bute (Mary, Countess of), notice of, ii. 258.
Bute (Lady Mary), ii. 259.
Byng (Mr.), i. 182.

' Cabala, or Mysteries of State,' character of, ii. 8.
Campan (Madame), i. 291.
Campbell. See Argyll, and Hay.
Campbell (Mr. Hume), ii. 60.
Campbell (Colonel John), i. 43, 57, 59, 61, 68, 90.
Campbell (Mr. John), i. 332.
CampbelL (Mr. Peter), i. 90.
Campbell (Hon. Mrs.), anecdotes of, i. 56, 62, 373. Letters
of, 57, 59, 61, 82, 88, 102.
Capel. See Essex,

357
Cardigan (Lady), ii. 184.
Carmichael (Lord,) ii. 60.
Caroline (Queen of George II.), anecdotes of, ii. 30, 46, 4S
Ceremonial of her coronation, 362 — 264.
Carr (Miss), i. 21.
Carter ( Miss), ii. 245.
Carteret (John, Lord), notice of, ii. 61.
Carteret (Mr. Edward), ii. 64.
Carteret (Miss), i. 40.
Cassilis (John, eighth Earl of), i. 344.
Castlemain (Viscount), i. 357.
Cathcart, (Lord), ii. 214, 215.
Catherlough (Lady), ii. 74.
Cavendish (Admiral), i. 345.
Cavendish (Lord John), ii. 322.
Cecil (Miss), i. 73.
Chabot (Lady Mary), ii. 301, 315.
Chaire (Mademoiselle de), ii. 225, 228.
Chamber (Miss Mary), notice of, i. 316. Letters of, 371, 377
ii. 17.
Chartres (Colonel), i. 344.
Cheselden (Mr.), anecdote of, i. 310.
Chester (Thomas, Esq.), i. 280.
Chesterfield (Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of), letters of, i
1, 5, 184, 288, 299, 304, 326, 347; ii. 58, 63, 81, 114
161, 327, 334, 339. Biographical anecdotes of, i. 1, 4 note
5 note s ii. 63 note, 84, 85 notes, 126.
Chetwynd (Lady), notice of, ii. 251. Letter of, 251.
Chetwynd (Lord), i. 252, 253.
Chetwynd (William, third Viscount), notices of, ii. 152, 156;
173, 175, 177, 184, 235,342.
Chetwynd, (Mrs.), ii. 256, 257. Letter of, 260.
Child (Mr.), ii. 281.
Choiseul (Due de), ii. 135.
Chudleigh (Miss), ii. 226.
Churchill (General), i. 36, 331.
Churchill (John). See Marlborough.

358
Clarges (Lady), i. 26.
Clayton (Mrs.), anecdotes of, i. 62, 63.
Clayton (Robert, Esq.), i. 62, created Lord Sundon, 63.
Clutterbuck (Mr.), ii. 188.
Cobham (Sir Richard Temple, Lord), biographical notice ofi
ii. 157. Letter of, 157.
Coke (Sir Thomas, afterwards Baron Lovell, and Earl oi
Leicester), i. 257, 258. Letter of, ii. 125.
Coke (Lady M.), i. 257, 258.
Coke (Mrs.), i. 73.
CoUyear (Elizabeth), i. 62.
Collyer (Sir David), i. 112.
Compton (Sir Spencer), i. 73, 250, 253, 331.
Congreve (Mr.), i. 77- Account of his funeral, 330,
Conolly (Right Hon. William), i. 374.
Cope (Mr.),ii. 175.
Cope (Sir Jonathan), ii. 175, 220.
Conway (Lord), ii. 174.
Conway (Henry Seymour, afterwards Field-Marshal), i. 67;
ii. 254.
Cornbury (Henry, Lord), notice of, ii. 100, 110.
Corker (Mr. Robert), i. 346.
Cornwallis (Hon. General), i. 175.
Cotton (Colonel), i. 74, 77.
Cowper (John), i. 3.
Cowper (Lord Chancellor), i. 281.
Cowper (Rev. Dr.), i. 175.
Coxe (Mr. Archdeacon), ii. 84.
Craggs (Mr.), ii. 19.
Crofts (Sir Archer), ii. 147.
Cumberland (His Royal Highness William, Duke of), ii. 16,
26, 47.
Curll (Edraund),J. 302.

359

D.

Dalkeith (Francis, Earl of), anecdote of, i. 52
Dalkeith (Lady), ii. 342.
Damer (Mr.), ii. 211.
Darlington (Lord), i. 497.
D'Averquerque (Lady Harriet), i. 376.
Davers (Sir Jermyn), i. 268.
Decker (Sir Matthew), anecdote of, i. 293.
Delaney (Dr.), ii. 28, 29,
Delaware (John, second Earl of), ii. 286.
Deloraine (Mary, Countess of), i. 260; ii. 179.
Deloraine' (Henry, Earl of), ii. 180.
Denbigh (Isabella, Lady), ii. 282.
Derby (Earl of), i. 26.
Digby (Frances), i. 313.
Disney (Colonel Henry), i. 358.
Dives (Miss), i. 334 ; ii. 9, 226.
Doddington (George Bubb), character of, i. 342.
Donelan (James, Esq.), i. 98.
Dorchester (Countess of), i. 112.
Dormer (General), i. 18, 357, 358; ii. 73, 74, 76.
Dorset (Lionel, Duke of), notices of, ii. 29, 33, 220. Letter
of, 33.
Dorset (Elizabeth, Duchess of), i. 62, 63 ; ii. 35«
Douglas, (Dr.), ii, 166.
Douglas (General), i. 348.
Douglas (Lady Jane), i. 52.
Douglas (Lord Charles), i. 356, 388; ii. 220.-
Drogheda (Alice, Countess of), i. 58.
Drumlanrig (Lord), i. 356, 363, 388.
Ducie (Lord), i. 277.
Dumfries (Earl of), i. 86.
Dunster (Dr.), i. 50.
Du Pin (Mile.), ii. 136, 155.
Dursley (Lord), i. 202 ; ii. 137.
Dysart (Lady), ii. 69.

3G0

Earle (Giles,* Esq.), biographical notices of, i. 10, II now
Letters of, 10, 12, 14.
Earle (Mrs.), ii. 163.
Edwin (Mr.), ii. 188.
Edwin (Mrs.), ii. 210, 211.
Effingham ("i^homas. Earl of), ii. 286.
Egham {Mr.), i. 322.
Egremont (Charles, Earl of), ii. 278,
Elizabeth (Princess), ii. 225, 236.
Emily (Her Royal Highness the Princess), ii. 217.
Essex (William Capel, third Earl of), notices of, i. 19, anc
note, 177, 314. Letter of, 314.
Essex (Lady), i, 382.
Estfjile (Pierre), ii. 8. <*.
Etiquette of the court of Queen Anne, i. 29^ 293.

F.

Fane (Colonel), i. 174; ii. 74,
Farquhar (Mr.), i. 27.
Farringdon (Mary), i. 278.
Fermor (Mrs.), i. 362.
Ferrers (Lady), ii. 126,
Fielding (Lady Fanny), i. 298, 312; ii. 1 10.
Finch (Lady Anne), ii. 124.
Finch (Daniel, Lord), i. 298.
Finch (Mr. and Mrs.) ii. 210, 211.
Fitzroy (Lady Caroline) , notice of, ii. 42.
Fitzroy (Lady Harriet), ii. 42.
Fitzroy (Lady Isabella), ii. 42, 174.
Fitzwilliam (Earl), i. 177.
Fitzwilliam (Lady), i. 1 77.
Fitzwilliam (Miss), i. 290, 303, 311, 329, 334; ii. 18.

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Floyd (Mrs.), verses on, ii. 18. Notice of, 19, 4k9»
Forster (Lady), i. 40.
Fortescue (William, Esq.), notice of, i. 202. Letter <rf, toi.
France (Maria Lecsinska, Queen of ), ii.270.
Francklin (Lady), i. 373.
Frazer (Simon, Lord Lovat), 1. 189.

G.

Gage (Thomas, Viscount), i. 343.
Gay (John, Esq.), character of, ii. 52. AiUecdotes of, i. 31,
32, 106, 283, 400; ii. 47, 109. Letters of, i. 32, 108, 118,
355, 365, 368, 380, 382, 403; ii. 5. Letters to him, »
106, 122, 124, 282, 297, 312, 375, 384, 390; ii. 1, 20.
George I. reconciliation of, with his son, i. 53.
George II. ii. 187. Btetertaininfi^t of, by the CdtintejiS of'
Orkney, i. 35% 351.
George (Prince, afterwards George III.), ii. 225.
Germaine (Sir John), i. 318.
Germaine (Lady Betty), notices of, i. 31, 71, 72, 377; ii. 17,
18, 19, 159. Letters of, i. 72, 318 ; ii. 43, 54, 171, 213.
Glenorchy (Lord),nlhl88.
Godfrey (Miss), i. 112, 188.
Godolphin (Henrietta, Countess of), i. 27, 61, 65.
Godolphin (Lord), i. 330.
Godolphin (Francis, second Earl of), ii. 83.
Gowei- (Hon. Jane Leveson), character of, ii. 57 note.
Gower (Miss Frances Leveson), ii. 132.
Gower (John, Lord), ii. 87.
Grafton (Charles, second Duke of ), ii. 42.
Grafton (Augustus Henry, third Duke of), ii. 323.
Grandison (John, first Earl of ), i. 102.
Gravencop (Mr.), ii. 177.
Gray (Arthur), i. 83.
Grenville (Mr. Richard), ii. 157.
Grenville (Mr. George), character of, ii. 193. Letters of,

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193, 197,209. Attacked in the house of commons, 286
287.
GrenviUe (Mrs.), ii. 176.
Grenville (Hester), ii. 209, 233.
Grenville (James), ii. 195.
Grey (Marchioness of), i. 307.
Griffith (Colonel), i. 8.
Griffith, (Miss), i. 8.
Grosvenor (Sir Richard), i. 182.
Gulliver's Travels, cited, i. 214, 217, 222.

H.

Hales (Rev, Dr.), ii. 282, 283.
Hamilton (Duke of), i. 7.
Hamilton (Mrs.), ii. 118.
Hampden (John), ii. 77, 79.
Hampden (Right Hon. Richard), biographical notice of, i.236.
Letters of, 236, 238, 240, 241, 243.
Hampden (Robert Trevor, Esq.), i. 76 ; ii. 279. Letters of
279, 280.
Hampden (Mrs.), i. 76. ^,
1-Iarbord (Harbord, Esq.), i. 257.
Harborough (Lord), i. 345.
Harold (Lady), i. 395.
Harte (Mr.), ii. 163.
Hawley (Lord), i. 61.
Hawley (Miss), i. 65, 83.
Henley (Mr.), i. 317.
Herbert (Henry, Lord), i. 17, and note, 303, 306, 347, 354,
366, 367.
Herbert (Hon. R. S.), i. 38, 77, and note; ii. 114, 115, 116,
117, 118.
Herbert (Mrs.), i. 369, 370. Letter to, ii. 93.
Herbert (Lady Margaret), ii. 231.
Hertford (first Marquis of), ii. 174.

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Hervey (Carr, Lord), notice of, i. 17, and note, 21. Letters
pf, 21, 23.
Hervey (John, Lord), i. 21 j ii. 4l.
Hervey (Lady), notice of, i. 181. Mentioned, 69, 107. Let
ters of, 181, 190, 193,319,324,333,337,359,410; ii, 7,
38,41,57, 103, 113, 133.
Hervey (Master George), i. 336, 361.
Hervey (Hon. Thomas), ii. 137, 162, 163, 221.
Hervey Aston, (Rev. Henry), notice of, ii. 214.
Heydegger, i. 290.
Heywood (Mrs.), ii. 29.
Hill (Abigail), i. 292.
Hill (Aaron), ii. 58.
Hobart (Sir Henry), ii. 6.
Hobart (John, afterwards second Earl of Buckinghamshire),
ii. 68, 271. Letters of, 204, 207, 236, 241, 289, 306,
309.
Hobart (Sir John), i. 256, 257, 258, 259.
Hobart (Lord), ii. 207.
Hobart (Lady), i. 257, 259.
Hobart (Miss Dorothy, i. 260; ii. 62, 66, 88, 182, 193, 201,
240.
Hope (Thomas, Esq.), i. 345.
Hotham (Sir Charles), i. 260; ii. 240.
Hotham (Lady Frances), ii. 243, 244.
Hotham (Lady Gertrude), ii. 245,
Hotham (Miss), ii. 240.
Howard (Lady Arabella), ii. 175.
Howard (Henry, fifth Earl of Suffolk), i. 28.
Howard (Henry, tenth Earl of Suffolk), i. 28 note.
Howard (Hon. Mrs.), generous conduct of Queen Caroline to,
i. 43 note. Anecdote of, 107 note. Letters to her, i. 7, 10,
12, 14, 21, 23, 26, 28, 32, 36, 39, 42, 45, 48, 51, 54, 56,
59, 61, 64, 66, 70, 73, 76, 80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 91, 94, 96,
100, 101, 103, 104, 108, 115, 118, 126, 132, 135, 139,
143, 148, 152, 156, 159, 161, 167, 169, 172, 174, 176,
178, 181, 184, 189, 190, 193, 196, 198, 202, 207, 209,

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217. 222, 224, 228, 230, 232, 233, 235, 236, 238, 240^
241, 243, 245, 246, 248, 251, 254, 256, 262, 264, 267;
269, 271, 272, 275, 285, 288, 291. 294, 299, 304, 314
319, 324, 326, 332, 333. 337, 34.7, 350, 354, 359, 362,
366, 368, 371, 377, 379, 387, 389, 394, 397, 403, 410;
ii. 327.
Howard, Letters % her, i. 106, 110, 122, 124, 130, 133,
137, 141, 146, 154, 158, 163, 165, 168, 214, 261, 263,
282, 295, 309, 312, 322, 375, 384, 390; ii. 330. See
Suffolk.
Howard (Lady Arabella), ii. 115.
Howard (Mary, Lady Deloraine), notice of, i. 260 note.
Howe (Lady Annabella), i. 39.
Howe (Miss Mary), i. 35.
Howe (Miss Sophia), biographical anecdotes of, i. 35, 36, 37
note, 38. Letters of, 36, 39.
Howe (Captain), i, 315.
Howe (John, Esq.), i. 277.
Howe (Viscount), ii. 25.
Hughes (Mrs. Margaret), i. 39.
Hume (David), ii. 316.
Humphreys (Mr.), ii. 103, 145, 149.
Hunting, immoderate, of George II. when Prince of Wales, i.
360, 376.
Huntingdon (Selina, Countess of), ii. 126, 244.

I, J.
Hay (Archibald Campbell, Earl of), biographical notice of, i,
42. Deeply implicated in the Mississippi scheme, 43 note.
Letters of, 42, 45, 332.
Inhausen (Mile.), i. 298.
Jeflteys (Mr.), i. 193.
Jennings (Miss), notice of, i. 108, 109.
Jennings (Sir John), notice of, i. 232. Letter of, 232.
Jersey (Earl of), i. 188.

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Johnson (Dr.), i. 70.
Johnstone (Mr.), i. 363.
Johnston (Lord John), ii. 196.
Jones (Mrs.), ii. 117.
Julian the Apostate, remarks on the character of, ii. 128, 129.

K.
Kelmauseck (Baroness), ii. 25.
Kelsey (William, Esq.), i. 257.
Kendall (Duchess of), i. 195, 298.
Kent (Henry Grey, Duke of), i. 307.
Kent (Jemima, Duchess of), i. 307.
Keppel (Capt.), ii. 255.
Kilmanseck (Madame), ii. 25.
Kinski (Count), i. 373.
Knight (Mrs.), notice of, ii. 19. L.
La Borde (M.), account of, ii. 313, 315.
La Lippe, (Count), notice of, i. 298 ; ii. 37 — 39.
La Lippe (Albert Wolfgang, Count), ii. 23.
La Lippe (La Comtesse de), letters of, ii. 23, 36.
Lamb (Matthew, Esq.), ii. 221,
Lansdowne (George Grenville, Lord), notice of, i. 228. Letter
of, 228.
Lansdowne (Lady), notice of, i. 70. , Letters of, 70, 80, 84,
269.
Law (John, the financier), biographical notice of, i. 86.
Anecdotes of, and of the Mississippi Scheme, i. 44, 46/47,
88. Letter of, 87.
Lawrence (Colonel)^ i. 93.
Lawson (Sir Wilfred), i. 343.
Leicester (Earl of), i. 257 ; ii. 64. 125.
Lepell (Miss'Mary), i. 8, 35. Married to Lord Hervey, 53.
See Hervey (Lady).

3GG
Ligonier (Lord), ii. 60, 221.
Lock (Mr. William), i. 34».
Londonderry (Earl of), i. 101.
Londonderry (Amelia, Marchioness of), i. 374.
Lonsdale (Henry, Viscount), i. 36.
Lorraine (Duke of), ii. 34.
Louis XV. i. 270.
Louisbourgh, rejoicings for the taking of, ii. 249.
Lovat (Lord), anecdote of, i. 189 note.
Lovat (Lady Amelia), i. 189.
Lovell (Thomas, Lord), i.257; ii. 64, 102, 125.
Lowther (Anthony), i. 35.
Lumley (Richard, Lord), i. 37, 39, 40.
Lumley (Charles), i. 315.
Lyttelton (Sir Thomas), ii. 188.

M,
Mackenzie (James Stuart), notices of, ii. 260, 272, Letter
of, 272.
Macartney (Mrs.) i. 348.
Maids of Honour to Queen Caroline, Allegory of, ii 9, 10.
Manchester (William, second Duke of), ii. 160.
Manners (Lord William), i. 24.
Mansell (Lady Betty), i. 194.
Mansfield (William Murray, Earl of), i. 274, notice of him,
ii. 265. Letter of, 265.
Mar (Countess of), i. 85.
Marchmont (Alexander Hume, second Earl of), notice of, ii.
60.
Maria Lecsinska (Queen of France), i. 270.
Marlborough (John Churchill, Duke of), i. 6. Completed
Blenheim at his own expense, 174 note,
Marlborough (Sarah, Duchess of), i. 6, 63 note.
Marlborough (Henrietta, Duchess of), notice of, i. 330. Let
ters of, 330, 331.
Mary (Princess), i. 379.

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Masham (Lady), i. 291, 292; ii. 29.
Maximilian (Prince), i. 208.
Maynard (Serjeant), ii. 6.
Meadows (Miss), i. 60, 303, 333, 334.
Meadows (Sir Sidney), i. 60.
Meadows (Mr.), ii. 68.
Meynell (Mr.), ii. 184, 185.
Middleton (Dr.), i. 181 ; ii. 40.
Middleton (Lord), ii. 238.
Milton (Lord), ii. 211.
Ministry, negotiations for the change of, in 1763, ii. 277.
Change of, in 1766, 318, 319.
Mississippi Scheme, anecdotes of, i. 43, 44.
Mohun (Charles, Lord), i. 7.
Mohun (Lady), biographical notices of, i. 7, and note, 91, 98.
Lettei-s of, i. 7, 94.
Molesworth (Mr.), anecdote of, i. 53.
Molesworth (Mrs.), biographical notice of, i. 51. Letters of
51, 54.
Molyneux (Mr. S.), notice of, i. 235 note.
Monmouth (Earl of), i. 126.
Monoux (Sir Humphry), ii. 117-
Montagu (Lady Mary Wortley), i. 63, 74, 83, 84, 85, 179, 1 89
193,298; ii. 128.
Montagu (Lady Barbara), ii. 210.
Montrath (Lord), ii. 191, 192.
Moore (Thos. Esq.), i. 162.
Mordaunt (Colonel), i. 92, 95.
Mordaunt (Mr.), ii. 148.
Mordaunt (Miss), i. 92, 93, 96, 98.
Moreton (Matthew Ducie, second Lord Ducie), i. 277.
Mount Edgecumbe (Lord), i. 22 note.
Mundy (Mr.), i. 24.
Murray (Mrs.), anecdote of, i. 83.
Murray (William). See Mansfield.

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N.

Nash (Beau), i. 79, 313; ii. 116.
Neville (Miss), i. 2
NevillefMr.), ii. 273.
Newcastle (Duke of), i. 20.
Newcastle (Duchess of), ii. 1 7, 322.
Newsham (Mr.), ii. 19.
Nightingale (Lady Betty), i. 409.
Norfolk (Duchess of), ii. 162.
Northampton (Anne, Countess of), ii. 275.
Northington (Robert, Lord), ii. 325, 326.
Northumberland (Duke of), ii. 218.
Norton (Colonel), i. 268.
Nottingham (Lord), i. 298.
Nugent, (Lady), ii. 215.
Nursery (Royal), allowances of clothes for, ii. 347, 350.

O.

O'Brien (Percy Windham), ii. 170.
Ogle (Sir Chalone,) ii. 174.
Oliver (Dr.), ii. 246, 251.
Onslow (Arthur, Speaker of the House of Commons), i. 340 j
ii.221.
Orange (Prince of), ii. 62.
Orange (Mary, Princess of), ii. 78.
Orkney (Countess of), biographical notice of, i. 188. Letters
of, 189, 350.
Ormond (Duke of), i. 23.
Oxford (Aubrey, Earl of), i. 65.
Oxford (Lord), ii. 56.

369

P.
Paget (Thomas, Lord), i. 8, and note; ii. 60.
Paget (Colonel Thomas), i. 9, 27. •
Paulet (Lord William), singular anecdote of, i. 293 note.
Character of, 346.
Pauquet, profligate conduct of, ii. 241) 242.
Pearce (Capt.), ii. 34. ,
Pelham (Lady F.), i. 213.
Pelham (Henry, Esq.), biographical notice of, i. 16, 213.
Pembroke (Thomas, eighth Earl of), i. 303.
Pembroke (Henry, ninth Earl of), ii. 74, 82, 83. Letter of,
ii. 164.
Pembroke (Mary, »untess of), i. 191 ; ii. 148, 164, 217, 230.
Peterborough (Charles, third Earl of), notice of, i. 126. 127,
183, His last hours, ii. 129 note. Letters of, i. 127, 132,
135, 139, 143, 148, 152, 156, 159, 161, 167, 169, 172,389;
ii. 127.
Pierrepoint (La^Fanny), ii. 69.
Pitt (William, Esq. afterwards Efirl of Chatham), biographical
notice of, ii. 150, 189, 277. Letters of, 150. 189.
Pitt (Hon. Mrs.), notice of, i. 101. Letters of, 101, 103.
Pitt (Mrs. Anne), notices of, ii. 143, 232. Letters of, 232,
237, 243,' 246, 248, 251.
Platen (Countess of), ii. 25.
Pointz (Right Hon. Stephen), ii. 214.
Pope (Mr.), notices of, i. 60, 161, 178, 181, 202, 226, 275,
386; ii.52, 71, 76, 79, 80, 81, 105, 107..Letter of, i.272.
Portmore (David, first Earl of), i. 62, 112. ^ 5.o5
Portmore (Charles, second Earl of), ii. 69.
Powell (Alice), i. 52.
Power (Miss), notice of, ii. 223, 229. Letter of, 223..
Powis (Lord and Lady), ii. 325.
Pratt (Mrs.), i. 248.
Pratt (Roger, Esq.), i. 258.
Prince of Wales (afterwards King Geo, II.), anecdotes of the
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370
court of, i. 17, and note, 18 note, 62 note, 89, 200. Was
probably engaged in the Mississippi Scheme, 46. Reconciled
to his father, King Geo. I. 53.
Prince of Wales (son of Geo. II.), ii. 26.
Princess of Wales (mother of Geo. III.), ii. 324.
Prior (Matthew), i, 369.
Pulteney (William, Esq. afterwards Earl of Bath), notices of,
i. 200, 341 ; ii. 61, 188.
 Letters of, i. 201, 212, 406; ii. 61, 101, 145, 148,
164, 190.
Pulteney (Miss), ii. 147.
Pulteney (Viscount), ii. 164.

Q.
Queensberry (Charles, third Duke of), i, S52.
Queensberry (Catherine, Duchess of), biographical notice of,
i, 352, 354. Letters of, 354, 362, 37^, 382, 383, 393,
403; ii. 66, 93, 107, 110, 123, 131, 158*
Querouaille (Louise de), ii. 133.

R.

Ramsay (Lady), i. 61.
Ravenscroft (Lord), i. 274.
Ray (Charles), i. 310.
Retz (Cardinal de), ii. 304.
Richelieu (Duke of), ii, 300.
Richmond (Duke of), ii. 134, 302.
Richmond (Sarah, Duchess of), i, 290, 329 ; ii. 134.
Rigby (Mr.), ii. 287.
Robinson (Mr.), i. 171.
Robinson (Mrs. Anastasia), i. 127, 17).
Rolt (Mrs,), i. 1 76.
Roxburgh (Lady), i, 58.

371
Rupert (Prince), i. 35.
Rushout (Sir John), i. 342.
Russel (Lady Elizabeth), i, 177, 382,
Russel (Elizabeth, Lady Frankland), i. 373.
Russel (Margaret), i. 206.
Russel (Miss), ii. 1 18.

S.
Sackville (Lord George), i. 72; ii. 220.
Sackville (Lord John), ii. 132.
Sacville (Lady Ellen), i. 270, note.
Sanderson (Sir Thomas), ii. 149.
Sandys (Mr,), i. 342.
Sauve (Madame), ii. 231.
Saville (Mary), i. 356.
SaJyer (Exton), i. 3.
Scarborough (Richard, Earl of), i. 37, 177; notice of, ii. 87
Scarborough (Lady), ii, 325,
Scarborough, state of society at, in 1733, ii, 59 — 61.
Schomberg (Duke of), ii. 13, 14, 27, 28.
Schtilemberg (Melisina de, anecdote of), i. 195.
Schults (Mr.), i. 9, 233.
Schutz (Mr.), ii. 70.
Scott (Sir Walter), ii. 51.
Soudamore (Lady), i. 313.
Sciidamore (Miss), i. 313.
Sedley (Catherine, Duchess of Dorchester), i. 113.
Sedley (Sir Charles), i. 112.
Selkirk (Charles, Earl of), i, 411.
Selwyn (Major Chanus), i. 277, 281.
Seltvyn (Colonel John), i. 277, 278.
Selwyn (Mrs.); i. 278; ii. 238.
Shirley (Mr.), ii. 126.
Shirley (Lady Fanny), ii. 126.
Shute (Mr.), ii. 171.

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Shuter (Mr.), i. 376.
Smith (Mr. Speaker), i. 38, 77.
Smith (Mrs.), i. 38, 335, 357; ii. 75, 77.
Smithson (Sir Hugh), ii. 218.
Somerset (Algernon, seventh Duke of), biographical notice
of, i. 101.
Somerville (Lord), i. 176.
South Sea Bubble (anecdotes of), i. 52, 55.
Southwell (Mrs. Elizabeth), i. 66, 373.
Sparre (Baron), ii. 140, 158.
Spencer (Lord and Lady), ii. 325.
St. Alban's (Duchess of), i. 38; ii. 173.
St. Andre, i. 72.
St. John (Lord), i. 281.
Stair (John, second Earl of), notice of, ii, 60, '73.
Stanhope (Philip Dormer). See Chesterfield (Earl of).
Stanhope (Mr. William), i. 78; ii. 220, 230.
Stanhope (Lady Gertrude), ii. 245.
Stanhope (Lady Jane), ii. 250.
Stanhope (Lady Lucy), ii. 246.
Stanley (George), i. 3.
Stanley (Right Hon. Hans), notice of, ii. 285, 316.
Strafford (Thomas, Earl of), notice of, ii. 130; letter of, ibid.
Stuart (Major), ii. 267.
Strynger (Catherine), i. 316.
Suffolk (Edward, eighth Earl of), ii. 1. 2.
Suffolk (Charles, ninth Earl of), i. 392 ; ii. I, 2.
Suffolk (Henrietta, Countess of), appointed mistress of the
robes to Queen Caroline, ii. 1 . Memorandum by her, on
the ceremonies observed at the coronation of Queen Caro
line, 262—265. Account of her death, 341—343.
 Letters to her, ii. 4, 5, 7, 11, 16, 23, 26, 33, 37,
38, 41, 57, 63, 66, 70, 75, 78, 80, 81, 86, 103, 107, 110,
113, 114, 119, 120, 123, 127, 131, 133, 138, 142, 144,
157, 158, 161, 164, 189, 193, 204. 213, 216, 218, 223,
229,232,236, 237, 239, 241, 243, 246, 248, 251, 254,
258, 260, 265, 267, 269, 272, 279, 280, 282, 290, 292,

373
294, 296, 297, 299, 304, 306, 309, 311, 315, 318, 319,
321, 324, 334, 339.
Suffolk, (Henrietta, Countess of), letters by her, to the
Hon. Geo. Berkeley, ii. 72, 73, 77, 140, 142j 174, 177,
183, 185, 186.
 Letters by her to other persons, ii. 1, 20, 256, 271,
273, 277. 285, 288, 289, 308.
Sunderland (Charles Spencer, third Earl of), biographical
notice of. i. 19. note, 90.
Sunderland (Lady), i, 19, 55.
Sundon (Lord), i. 63.
Sundon (Lady), i. 63.
Sussex (Lord), ii. 214, 215.
Sutton (Sir Robert), i. 19 note, 85.
Swift (Dean), anecdotes of, i. 208, 209. Vindication of him
self, ii. 1 1 — 15. Remarks on the published collection of his
letters, 320.
 Letters of, i. 209, 217, 222, 235, 248, 254, 262, 264,
271,397; ii, 11,26,45.

T.

Talbot (Miss), ii. 245.
Tankerville (Lady), ii. 183.
Tempest (Mrs.), i. 269.
Temple (Richard, Lord), notice of, ii. 269 ; letter of, ibid.
Temple (Anne, Lady), notice of, i. 316 ; letter of. ii. 319.
Temple (Sir William), ii. 16.
Thanet (Lord), ii. 210.
Thanet (Lady), ii. 356.
Thomas (Mr. John), i. 308.
Thomson (Mr. Edward), ii. 188.
Thynne (Mrs.), i. 70.
Tichborne (Miss), i. 19 and note, 55.
Tindal (Mr.), ii. 40.
Tofts (Mary), notice of, i. 21 6 note.

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Topham (Dinah), i. 373.
Torre del Pazzo, account of, ii. 240.
Townshend (Lady), i. 175.
Townshend (Lord), i. 287, 346.
Townshend (Right Hon. Charles), notices of, ii. 267, 273
letter of, 267.
Tracy (Miss), ii. 194.
Trevor (Thomas, first Lord), i. 19.
Trevor (Robert, fourth Lord), notice of, ii. 279 ; letters ol^
279, 280.
Trevor (Mrs.), ii. 247.
Tufton (Lady Margaret), i. 257.
Tweedale (John, Marquis of), ii. 87.
Tweedale (Lady), ii. 323.
Tylney (Earl), i. 357.
Tyrawly (Lady), 1. 378.
Tyrconnel, (Lord), ii. 180.

Vane (Miss), i. 334 ; notice of, 407 ; letter of, 407.
Vane (Lady), ii. 325, 326.
Vere (the Ladies Diana, Mary, and Harriet), i. 65.
Vere (Lord), ii. 173,211.
Vere (Lady), ii. 173 ; letters of, ii, 216, 218, 229.
Vernon (Admiral), ii. 174.
Vernon (Mrs.), i. 274, 371.
Villette (Madame de), ii. 234.
Villiers (Lady Harriet), i. 101 ; ii, 150,
Villiers (Lady Mary), notice of, i. 70.
Villiers (Elizabeth, Countess of Orkney), anefcdotes of, i. 188;
letter of, 189.
Voltaire (M.), i. 181.

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W.
Waldegrave (Lady), ii. 253.
Wales (Prince of). See Prince of Wales.
Walpole (Sir Robert), i. 49, 63, 174, 175, 200. 225. 341;
ii. 14, 30, 47, 48, 49, 56, 60, 61, 65, 150, 189.
' Character of him by Dean Swift, ii. 32.
Walpole (Horace, Sen.), notice of, i. 230, 341 ; letter of, 230;
created a peer. 270.
Walpole (Horace, Jun.), biographical notice of, ii. 254, 283.
 — Unfair statements of, exposed, i. 16, 310 ; ii. 84, 85 ;
cited, 22, 56. 200, 281.
 Letters of, ii. 254, 290, 292, 311, 315. 318, 321,

324, 336, 341.
Walsingham (Lady), i. 195.
Walter (Mr. Peter), i. 346.
Wardrobe (Royal), particulars respecting, ii. 347 — 351.
Warrington (George Booth, Earl of), notice of, i. 97-
Welwood (Dr.), notice of, i. 51.
Wentworth (Mrs.), i. 98.
Westmoreland (Thomas, sixth Earl of), i. 316.
Westmoreland (John, seventh Earl of), i. 174.
Weymouth (Thomas, second Viscount), i. 270.
Wharton (Thomas, Lord), notice of, i. 67.
Whittaker (Richard, Esq.), i. 258.
Wiggett (Rice, Esq.), i. 258.
Wilkes (John), ii. 286, 287.
William III, anecdote of, i. 188.
Williams (Sir Charles Hanbury), i. 36, 42; ii. 126.
Wilmington (Spencer, Earl of), anecdotes of, i. 250 ; men
tioned, 73, 331;
Winchelsea (Lord), i. 298; ii. 110.
Windham (Percy), ii. 170.
Windham (Sir Charles), ii. 170.
Windham (Sir William), ii. 170.
Winnington (Mr.), i. 341.

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Wodehouse (Sir John), i. 257.
Wodehouse (Miss Sophia), i. 258.
Wodehouse (Armine), i. 259.
Wodehouse (William), i. 258.

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Yarmouth (Countess of), ii. 253.
Yorke (Sir Joseph), notice of, ii. 285,
Young (Dr. Edward), notice of, i. 284 ; letter of, 285
Young (Sir WUliam), i. 342 ; ii. 210, 21 1.

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