207.  To Sir Horace Mann, June 20.-Battle of Placentia.  Old Tullybardine and Lord Cromartie in the Tower.  Death of Jack Spenser—­485

208.  To George Montagu, Esq.  June 24.-Ministerial changes.  Arrival of rebel prisoners.  Jack Spenser’s will.  Lady Townshend’s bon-mots.  Anecdotes of Lords Bath and Sandys, and the Duke of Cumberland—­486

209.  To the same, July 3.-Promotions and marriages—­487

210.  To Sir Horace Mann, July 7.-Lord Lovat, and Murray, the Pretender’s secretary,taken.—­488

211.  To the same, Aug, 1.-Trials of the rebel Lords.  Description of Lords Kilmarnock, Cromartie, and Balmerino.  Intercessions in their behalf.  Confessions of Murray—­489

212.  To George Montagu, Esq.  Aug. 2.-Trials of the rebel Lords.  Anecdotes—­494

213.  To the same, Aug. 5.-Discoveries of Murray.  Lady Cromartie’s petition.  Anecdotes of the rebel lords.  The Duke of Cumberland’s ball—­495

214.  To George Montagu, Esq.  Aug. 11.-Lord Cromartie’s pardon.  Lady Caroline Fitzroy’s marriage—­497

215.  To Sir Horace mann, Aug. 12.-Opera squabbles.  The Violette.  Lord Sandwich’s embassy.  Marriage of Lady Charlotte Fermor, and of the Princess Louisa to the King of Denmark.  Wanderings of the young Pretender.  Conduct of the rebel Lords.  Story of Lord Balmerino—­497

216.  To George Montagu, Esq.  Aug. 16.-Anecdotes of the rebel Lords under sentence—­500

217.  To Sir Horace Mann, Aug. 21.-Account of the execution of Lords Balmerino and Kilmarnock—­501

218.  To the same, Sept. 15.-Lady Orford and Mr. Shirley—­504

219.  To the same, Oct. 2.-Arrival of Mr. Chute from Italy.  Mr. Whithed described—­506

220.  To the Hon. H. S. Conway, Oct. 3.-Enclosing Gray’s Ode on a distant Prospect of Eton College—­507

221.  To Sir Horace Mann, Oct. 14.-Defeat of the allies in Flanders.  Capitulation of Genoa.  Acquittal of Cope.  General Oglethorpe’s sentence—­508

222.  To the Hon. H. S. Conway, Oct. 24.-Campaign in Scotland—­ 509

223.  To George Montagu, Esq.  Nov. 3.-His Epilogue to Tamerlane—­510

224.  To Sir Horace Mann, Nov. 4.-Ministerial changes.  Lord Chesterfield accepts the seals.  Expedition to Quiberon.  Admiral Matthews’s court-martial—­511

225.  To the same, Nov. 12—­513

226.  To the same,, Dec. 5.-Marriages.  Reformations in the army.  Arrest of Orator henley. theatricals—­514

227.  To Sir Horace Mann, Dec. 25.-Trial of Lord Lovat.  Mr.Davis’s copy of the Dominichino—­515

1747.

228.  To Sir Horace Mann, Jan. 27.-The Prince’s new Opposition--517

229.  To the same, Feb. 23.-The Opera.  Debates on places and pensions.  Lord Kildare’s marriage.  Panciatici.  Anecdotes of Lord Holderness and Lord Hervey—­519

230. to the same, March 20.-Lord Lovat’s trial.  Anecdotes—­521