56.  To the Hon. H. S. Conway, May 5.-On Mr. Conway’s infant daughter.-[N.] 126

57.  To George Montagu, Esq.  May 12.-Irish politics.  Mother Midnight’s oratory.  Captain Hotham’s bon-mot.-127

58.  To Sir Horace Mann, May 13.-Irish politics.  Miss Blandy’s execution.-128

59.  To George Montagu, Esq.  June 6.-Capture of a housebreaker at Strawberry Hill.  Gray’s Odes.  Story of Lord Bury.-129

60.  To the same.-131

61.  To the Hon. H. S. Conway, June 23.-Story of Mr. Seymour and Lady Di.  Egerton.  Distress and poverty of France.  Profligacy of the court.  Births and marriages.-132

62.  To George Montagu, Esq.  July 20.-Alarm at the visit of a King’s messenger.  The “M`emoires"133

63.  To Sir Horace Mann,.July @7.-Fire at Lincoln’s-inn.  Princess Emily and Richmond Park.  Discussions concerning the tutorhood of the Prince of Wales.  Portraits of Cr`ebillon and Marivaux, by Liotard.-134

64.  To Richard Bentley.  Aug. 5.-Excursion to Kent and Sussex.  Bishop’s palace, Rochester.  Knowle.  Tunbridge.  Summer Hill.  Bayham Abbey.  Hurst Monceaux.  Battle Abbey.  Silver Hill.  Penshurst.  Mereworth.  Sissinghurst.  Becton Malherbe.  Leeds Castle.-137

65.  To George Montagu, Esq.  Aug. 28.-Adventure at Mrs. Boscawen’s.  Privilege of Parliament.  Standing Army.  Gray’s Odes.-145

66.  To Sir Horace Mann, Oct. 28.-Projected trip to Florence..  Madame de Brionne.  Lady Coventry at Paris.  Duke Hamilton and his Duchess.  Anecdotes.  Parisian indecorums.  Madame Pompadour’s husband.  Trait of Louis the Fifteenth.  Epigram on the quarrel of the Pretender and his second son.  Astley’s pictures.-146

67.  To the Hon. H. S. Conway, Nov. 8 [N.].-150

68.  To George Montagu, Esq.  Dec. 3.  Lord Harcourt’s removal from the Governorship of the Prince of Wales.  Bon-mot of George Selwyn.-150

69.  To Sir Horace Mann, Dec. 11.-Education of the Prince of Wales.  Resignation of Lord Harcourt and the Bishop of Norwich.  The Bishop of Gloucester the new preceptor.  And Lord Waldegrave the new governor.-151

1753.

70.  To Sir Horace Mann, Feb. 14.-Death of Sir Hans Sloane; his Museum.-155

71.  To Mr. Gray, Feb. 20.-New edition of Gray’s Odes with Bentley’s designs.-157

72.  To Sir Horace Mann, March 4.-Lord Ravensworth’s accusation of Stone, Murray, and the Bishop of Gloucester, on the information of Fawcett.  Liotard.  Cr`ebillon’s portrait.-158

73.  To the same, March 27.-Debates in the Lords on the charges against Stone, Murray, and Bishop Johnson.-159

74.  To the same, April 16.-161

75.  To the same, April 27.-Progress of improvements at Strawberry Hill.  Account of the taking of Dr. Cameron.  Paper in “The World,” to promote a subscription for King Theodore.  Lord Bath and the Craftsman.-161

76.  To the Hon. H. S. Conway, May 5.-Madame de Mezi`eres.  Sir Charles Williams’s distich on the Queen of Hungary.  Lord Bolingbroke’s Works.  Anecdote of Lady Harrington.-164