To the same, July 21.-Change of the ministry. Ode on the occasion To David Hume, Esq. July 26.—Quarrel between David Hume and Rousseau 486 To the Rev. Mr. Cole, Sept. 18.-Contradicting a newspaper report of his illness To George Montagu, Esq. Sept. 18 To the Hon. H. S. Conway, Oct. 2.-Journey to Bath. Great dislike of the To George Montagu, Esq. Oct. 5.-Recovery. Tired to death of Bath. Lord To Jolin Chute, Esq. Oct. 10.-Visit to Wesley's meeting. Hymns to ballad To the Hon. H. S. Conway, Oct. 18.-Lord Chatham wishes him to second the Address on the King's Speech. Life at Bath. Motives for leaving the To George Montagu, Esq. Oct. 22.-Satisfaction at his return to Strawberry Hill. Visit to Bristol. Its buildings. Abbey church of Bath. Batheaston 492 To Sir David Dalrymple, (Lord Hailes,) Nov. 5.-Thanks for his " Memorials and Letters." Folly of burying in oblivion the faults and crimes of princes To David Hume, Esq. Nov. 6.-On his quarrel with Rousseau. Folly of To the same, Nov. 11.-The same subject. Omissions by D'Alembert in a published letter of Walpole's. Picture of modern philosophers To George Montagu, Esq. Dec. 12.-Politics. Ministerial negotiations. Deaths and marriages. Caleb Whitefoord's Cross-readings from the news- To Dr. Ducarel, April 25.-Thanks for his "Anglo Norman Antiquities" To the Earl of Strafford, July 29.-Death and character of Lady Suffolk To George Montagu, Esq. July 31.-State of the ministry. Intended trip to Paris. Death of Lady Suffolk. Lord Lyttelton's "Henry the Second." Lean To the same, Aug. 7.-Motives for revisiting Paris To the Hon. H. S. Conway, Sept. 9.-Death and character of Charles Town- To the Rev. Mr. Cole, Oct. 24.-Return to England 1768. To Sir David Dalrymple, Jan. 17.—Advice on sending a young artist to Italy. To the Rev. Mr. Cole, Feb. 1.-On sending a copy of his Historic I ubts" 508 To Sir David Dalrymple, Feb. 2.-On sending him his "Historic Doubts." Rapid sale of the first impression [N.] To Mr. Gray, Feb. 18.-New edition of Gray's Poems. On his own writings. King of Prussia. Lord Clarendon's "History." "Historic Doubts." Dis- culpation of Richard the Third. "Turned of fifty." Garrick's prologues To George Montagu, Esq. March 12.-Reflections on his retirement from · To the same, April 15.-Wit as temporary as dress and manners. Fate of George Selwyn's bon-mots. Completion of his tragedy of "The Mysterious Mother." Mrs. Pritchard. Garrick. President Henault's tragedy of “Cor- To the Rev. Mr. Cole, April 16.-Rous's rolls of the Earls of Warwick. Pro- jects a History of the Streets of London. St. Foix's Rues de Paris. The Methodists. Whitfield's funeral sermon on Gibson the forger To the same, June 6.-History of Ely cathedral. Cardinal Lewis de Luxem- To George Montagu, Esq. June 15.-Inclemency of the weather. English summers. Description of the climate by our poets. Hot-house of St. Ste- phen's chapel. Indifference to parties. The country going to ruin To the Hon. H. S. Conway, June 16.-Wilkes and liberty. Ministerial changes. Conduct of the Duke of Grafton. Distressed state of the country. Lord Chatham. Foote's "Devil upon Two Sticks." Subject of "The To the Earl of Strafford, June 25.-Wilkes and Number 45. The King of Denmark. Lady Rockingham and the Methodist Pope Joan Huntingdon. To Monsieur de Voltaire, July 27.-Reply to Voltaire's vindication of his criticism on Shakspeare. Story of M. de Jumonville. "Historic Doubts" 525 To the Hon. H. S. Conway, Aug. 9.-Lord Botetourt. New Archbishop of Canterbury. King of Denmark. Augustus Hervey's divorce from the Chudleigh. Gray appointed professor of modern history. Efficacy of ice- To George Montagu, Esq. Aug. 13.-Arrival of the King of Denmark. His To the Earl of Strafford, Aug. 16.-Personal description of the King of Den- mark. His cold reception at Court. His first favourite, Count Holke. To the Hon. H. S. Conway, Aug. 25.-Disturbance in America. Coffee- house politicians. King of Denmark. Lady Bel Stanhope [N.] To the Rev. Mr. Cole, Aug. 30.-Thanks for some prints and some notices. Improvements at Strawberry. Mr. Granger's "Catalogue of English Heads." To the Earl of Strafford, Oct. 10.-Health and sickness. Quiet of his present illness contrasted with the inquiries after him when his friends were coming To the same, Nov. 15.-Separation of old friends in old age. Moroseness of To the same, Dec. 1.-Arlington-street. Reconciliation between Lord Chat- ham, Earl Temple, and Mr. George Grenville. Wilkes and the House of To the same, April 15.-Temperance the best physician. Easy mode of pre- serving the teeth. Advice on wine drinking. Middlesex election. Wilkes To the Rev. Mr. Cole, May 27.-Granger's Catalogue of Prints and Lives To the Rev. Mr. Cole, June 14.-Proposed painted window for Ely cathedral. To the Earl of Strafford, July 3.-Disinterestedness and length of their friend- To the Hon. H. S. Conway, July 7.-Lord Chatham at the King's levee To the Rev. Mr. Cole, July 15.-Return from Ely. East window of the To the same, Aug. 12.—Thanks for some prints. Advice respecting a His- To George Montagu, Esq. Aug. 18.-Calais. Complaint of his friend's long To John Chute, Esq. Aug. 30.-Journey to Paris. Lord Dacre and Dr. Pomine. Account of Madame du Deffand. Madame du Barry. French theatre. Hamlet. The Dumenil. Voltaire's tragedy of "Les Guèbres" 552 To George Montagu, Esq. Sept. 7.-Character of Madame du Deffand. Un- To the Earl of Strafford, Sept. 8.-Affected admiration of the French govern- ment. Lettres de cachet. Students in legislature. French treatment of To George Montagu, Esq. Sept. 17.-Visit to Versailles. The Dauphin. Count de Provence. Count d'Artois. to St. Cyr. Madame de Maintenon. Madame de Cambise. To the same, Oct. 13.-Return to England. Congratulations on his friend's To the same, Oct. 16.-Return to Strawberry. His tragedy of "The Mys- - 553 555 To the Hon. H. S. Conway, Nov. 14.-Lord Temple's dinner with the Lord To George Montagu, Esq. Dec. 14.-Condolence on the death of Mrs. Trevor. Loss of friends and connexions. Cumberland's comedy of "The Brothers." CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HON. HORACE WALPOL E. TO GEORGE MONTAGU, ESQ. Arlington Street, Nov. 17, 1759. I REJOICE Over your brother's honours, though I certainly had no hand in them. He probably received his staff from the board of trade. If If any part of the consequences could be placed to partiality for me, it would be the prevention of your coming to town, which I wished. My Lady Cutts is indubitably your own grandmother: the Trevors would once have had it, but by some misunderstanding the old Cowslade refused it. Mr. Chute has twenty more corroborating circumstances, but this one is sufficient. Fred. Montagu told me of the pedigree. I shall take care of all your commissions. Felicitate yourself on having got from me the two landscapes; that source is stopped. Not that Mr. Müntz is eloped to finish the conquest of America, nor promoted by Mr. Secretary's zeal for my friends, nor because the ghost of Mrs. Leneve has appeared to me, and ordered me to drive Hannah and Ishmael into the wilderness. A cause much more familiar to me has separated us-nothing but a tolerable quantity of ingratitude on his side, both to me and Mr. Bentley. The story is rather too long for a letter: the substance was most extreme impertinence to me, concluded by an abusive letter against Mr. Bentley, who sent him from starving on seven pictures for a guinea to one hundred pounds a year, my house, table, and utmost countenance. In short, I turned his head, and was forced to turn him out of doors. You shall see the documents, as it is the fashion to call proof papers. Poets and painters imagine they confer the honour when they are protected, and they set down impertinence to the article of their own virtue, when you dare to begin to Lady Cutts was the mother of Mrs. Montagu, by her second husband, John Trevor, Esq. and grandmother of George Montagu.-E. |