(106) Second Lord Holland.

(107) Lady Henrietta Stanhope, daughter of second Earl of Harrington.  She married Lord Foley in 1776, and died 1781.

(108) Fitzpatrick in this correspondence is usually spoken of as Richard.

(109) Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston (1720-1788).  The celebrated public trial of the Duchess of Kingston for bigamy took place in Westminster Hall, April, 1776.  It was proved that she had privately married Augustus, second son of Lord Hervey, but the marriage was not owned.  She lived publicly with the Duke of Kingston and finally married him during Mr. Hervey’s life, but at the death of the Duke, who left her all his disposable property, proceedings were instituted against her and she was found guilty.  She afterwards went to St. Petersburg, where she gave an entertainment for the Empress Catherine said to be more splendid than had ever been seen in Russia.  She bought an estate near St. Petersburg, calling it by her maiden name of Chudleigh, where she intended to manufacture brandy, but found herself so coldly treated by the English ambassador and Russian nobility that she removed to France, where she became involved in a lawsuit regarding the purchase of Another estate.  The chagrin at loss of the case caused her death.

[1774,] July 30, Saturday night, Almack’s.—­I write my letter from hence, from the habitude of making this place my bureau, not that there is anybody here, or that there was the least probability of my finding anybody here.  The last post night I was obliged to have an amanuensis, as you will know to-morrow morning when the post comes in.  I had got a small particle of shining sand in my eye that during the whole day, but particularly at night, gave me most exquisite pain, and prevented me from writing to you, which, next to receiving your letters, is one of my great pleasures.  So this was un grand evenement pour moi, par une petite cause.  While the writer was writing, Hare came in, and he said that he would finish the letter for me, but what they both wrote God knows.

Storer I suppose set out yesterday for Castle H(oward), and I take for granted will be with you before this letter.  March has been out of town ever since Monday till to-day.  He has been at a Mr. Darell’s in Cambridgeshire, who has a wife I believe with a black eye and low forward [forehead].  I guessed as much by his stay, and young Thomas who came up with him to town told me it was so.

I supped last night at Lady Hertford’s with the two Fitzroys, Miss Floyd, and Lord F. Cavendish;(110) and to-day, Lady Hertford, Miss Floyd, and Lord Frederick and I dined at Colonel Kane’s, who is settled in the Stable Yard, and in a damned good house, plate, windows cut down to the floor, elbowing his Majesty with an enormous bow window.  The dog is monstrously well nipped; he obtrudes his civilities upon me, malgre que j’en ai, and will in time force me not to abuse him.  He would help me to-day to some venison, and how he contrived it, I don’t know, but for want of the Graces he cut one of my fingers to the bone, that I might as well have dined at a cut-fingered ordinary.