36.  To the same, March 1,3.-Further proceedings against Mr. Murray.  Lady Vane’s memoirs of her own life.  Fashionable theatricals.  The English “a grave nation".-94

37.  To the same, March 21.-Death of Frederick, Prince of Wales.  Conduct of the King .-95

38.  To the same, April 1.-Death of Mr. Whithed; his will.  Death of the Earl of Orford.  Harmony between the King and Princess of Wales.  Prince George.  Prince Edward.-97

39.  To the same, April 22.-Dodington’s project of a ministry upset by the death of the Prince.  Story of Bootle.  Character of Dr. Lee.  Prince George created Prince of Wales.  His household.  Bishop Hayter and Archbishop Blackburn.  The young Earl of Orford.-99

40.  To the same, May 30.-Emptiness and vanity of life.  Match between Lord Orford and the rich Miss Nicholl broken off.  Debates on the Regency bill.-103

41.  To George Montagu, Esq.  May 30.-Lady Orford and Mr. Shirley married.-103

42.  To the Rev. Joseph Spence, June 3.-With a translation of a couplet on Tibullus. [N.]-105

43.  To George Montagu, Esq.  June 13.-Change of ministry.  Bon-mot on Lord North’s Wedding.  Spenser, with Kent’s designs.  Bentley’s ray.  Warburton’s Pope.  Edwards’s Canons of Criticism.-106

44.  To Sir Horace Mann, June 18.-Resignations.  New ministry.  Epigram on Lord Holderness.  The two Miss Gunnings.  Extravagant dinner at White’s.  Bubb de Tristibus.  Dodington’s bombastic eulogium on the Prince.  Sale of the pictures at Houghton.-107

45.  To the same, July 16.-Announcing Mr. Conway’s intended visit to Florence.-109

46.  To George Montagu, Esq.  July 22.-Projected edition of Grammont.  Visit to Wimbledon.  Ragley.  Warwick Castle.  “Capability” Brown.  Easton Neston.  Stowe.-110

47.  To Sir Horace Mann, Aug. 31.-Story of the Gunnings, and of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in durance in the Brescian.  Lord Orford and Miss Nicholl.-112

48.  To George Montagu, Esq.  Oct. 8.-Description of Woburn.-114

49.  To Sir Horace Mann, Oct. 14.-Death of the Prince of Orange.  Lady Pembroke.  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Letters.  Lady Russell’s Letters.-115

50.  To the same, Nov. 22.-Unanimity of Parliament.  Plots in the Duke of Burgundy’s cradle.  Verses stuck up on the Louvre.  Young Wortley Montagu’s imprisonment at Paris.  Bon-mot of Lord Coke.  Anecdote of the King.-118

51.  To the same, Dec. 12.-Lord Stormont.  Death of Lord Bolingbroke.  The wonderful tooth-drawer.-119

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52.  To George Montagu, Esq.  Jan. 9.-The St. James’s Evening Post parodied.-120

53.  To Sir Horace Mann, Feb. 2.-Debates on the treaty with Saxony.  A black-ball at White’s.-122

54.  To the same, Feb. 27.-Death of Sir Horace Mann’s father.  Marriage of the Miss Gunnings to Lord Coventry and the Duke of Hamilton.-123

55.  To the same, March 23.-Sir Horace Mann’s portrait.  The Duke of Argyle’s Job.  The Duchess of Hamilton at court.  Miss Jefferies and Miss Blandy.  Frequency of executions.-124