61.  To the same, april 8.-lady Walpole’s extravagant schemes.  Subsidy for the Queen of Hungary.  Lord Orford’s crowded levees.  Rage of the mob against him.  Place Bill rejected by the Lords—­243

62.  To the same, April 15.-Progress of the Secret Committee.  Committal of Paxton—­246

63.  To the same, april 22.- Secret Committee.  Examination of Sir John Rawdon.  Opening of Ranelagh Gardens—­247

64.  To the same, April 29.-Preparations for war in Flanders.  Examinations before the Secret Committee.  Scuffle at the Opera—­249

65.  To richard West, Esq., may 4.-Anxiety for the recovery of his health and spirits.  The age most unpoetical.  Wit monopolized by politics.  Royal reconciliation.  Asheton’s sermons. (Death of Mr. West)—­251

66.  To sir Horace mann, May 6.-Florentine nobility.  Embarkations for Germany.  Doings of the Secret committee. the opera—­252

67. to the same, May 13.-first report of the Secret Committee.  Bill to indemnify evidence against Lord orford brought in—­254

68.  To the same, May 20.-Indemnity Bill carried in the Commons.  Party dinner at the Fountain.  Place Bill.  Mr. Nugent’s attack on the bishops—­254

69.  To the same, May 28.-Ranelagh.  Vauxhall.  Mrs. Clive.  “Miss Lucy in town.”  Garrick at Goodman’s Fields:  “a very good mimic; but nothing wonderful in his acting.”  Mrs. Bracegirdle. meeting at the Fountain.  The Indemnity Bill flung out by the Lords.  Epigram on Pulteney.  Committee to examine the public accounts.  Epigram on the Indemnity Bill.  Kent and symmetry.  “The Irish Beggar”—­256

70.  To the same, June 3.-Epigram on Lord Islay’s garden upon Hounslow Heath—­260

71.  To the same, June 10.-Lady Walpole and her son.  Royal reviews.  Death of hammong.  Process against the duchess of Beaufort—­261

72.  To the same, June 14.-Peace between Austria and Prussia.  Ministerial movements.  Perplexities of the Secret Committee.  Conduct of Mr. Scrope.  Lady Vane’s adventures—­263

73.  To the same, June 25.-successes of the Queen of Hungary.  Mr. Pulteney created Earl of Bath—­265

74.  To the same, June 30.-Second Report of the Secret Committee.’  The Pretender.  Intercepted letters.  Lord Barrymore—­267

75. to the same.-Lines on the death of Richard West, Esq.  “A Receipt to make a lord”—­269

76.  To the same, July 7.-New Place Bill.  General Guise.  Monticelli—­271

77.  To the same July 14.-Ned and Will Finch.  Lord Sidney Beauclerc.  Pulteney takes up his patent as Earl of Bath.  Ranelagh masquerade.  Fire in Downing Street—­273

78.  To the same.-Prorogation.  End of the Secret Committee.  Paxton released from Newgate.  Ceretesi.  Shocking scene of murder.  Items from his grandfather’s account-book.  Lord Orford at court—­275

79.  To the same, July 29.-About to set out for Houghton.  Evening at Ranelagh with his father.  Lord Orford’s increasing popularity.  “The Wife of Bath.”  Cibber’s pamphlet against Pope.  Doddington’s “Comparison of the Old and New Ministry”—­ 278