77.  To George Montagu, Esq.  May 22.-Debates on the Marriage Bill.-165

78.  To the Hon. H. S. Conway, May 24.-Debates on the Marriage Bill.-167

79.  To George Montagu, Esq.  June 11.-Parliamentary altercations.  Clandestine Marriage Bill.  Bon-mot of Keith’s.- 169

80.  To Sir Horace Mann, June 12.-Description of Strawberry Hill.  Clandestine Marriage Bill.  Execution of Dr. Cameron.-170

81.  To George Montagu, Esq.  July 17.-Death of Miss Brown.  Tom Hervey’s letter to Sir William Bunbury.  Story of Dr. Suckling.  George Selwyn’s bon-mot.  Elopement.  Marriage Bill.-173

82.  To Sir Horace Mann, July 21.-Electioneering.  Snuff-taking.  Death of Lord Pomfret.-174

83.  To John Chute, Esq.  Aug. 4.-Visit to Greatworth.  Sir Harry Danvers described.  White-knights.  Middleton.  Wroxton.  Steane Chapel.  Stowe.  Temple of Friendship.  Warkworth.-176

84.  To George Montagu, Esq.  Aug. 16.-Stowe.  Sir Harry Danvers.- 179

85.  To Richard Bentley, Esq.  Sept.-New Camden’s “Britannia.”  Oxford.  Birmingham.  Hagley.  Worcester.  Malvern Abbey.  Visit to George Selwyn at Matson.  Gloucester Cathedral.  Hutchinsonians.- 180

86.  To Sir Horace Mann, Oct. 6.-The Modenese treaty.  Gothic amusements.-186

87.  To the same, Dec. 6.-Prince Heraclius.  Party feuds in Ireland.  Bianca Capello.-187

88.  To George Montagu, Esq.  Dec. 6.-Death of his uncle Erismus Shorter, and of Lord Burlington.  The Opera.  Glover’s “Boadicea.”  Lord Huntingdon and Stormont.-188

89.  To Richard Bentley, Esq.  Dec. 19.-Eulogy on his drawings.  Deaths of Lords Clarendon, Thanet, and Burlington.  “Sir Charles Grandison.”  Hogarth’s “Analysis of Beauty.”  Wood’s “Palmyra.”  Opera.  The Niccolini.-190

1754.

90.  To Sir Horace Mann, January 28.-Story of Bianca Capello.  Sortes Walpolianae.  Serendipity.  Dissuades him from taking the name of Guise.  Sir James Gray.  His father’s maxim.  The Opera and Niccolini.  Miss Elizabeth Pitt.-191

91.  To Richard Bentley, Esq.  March 2.-The Duke of Cumberland’s visit to Strawberry Hill.  Proceedings in Parliament.  New Mutiny-bill.  Death of Dr. Mead.  Sortes Walpolianae.-194

92.  To the same, March 6.-Ironical account of the death of Mr. Pelham.  Francis’s tragedy of “Constantine.”  Crisp’s “Virginia.”  Lord Bolingbroke’s works.-196

93.  To Sir Horace Mann, March 7.-State of parties.  The new candidates for office.  Particulars of the death of Mr. Pelham.- 198

94.  To Richard Bentley, Esq.  March 17.-The new ministry.  George Selwyn’s bon-mots.  Orator Henley.  Beckford and Delaval at Shaftesbury.-200

95.  To George Montagu, Esq.  March 19.-The Newcastle administration.-201

96.  To Sir Horace Mann, March 28.-,The new ministry.  Resignation of Lord Gower.-202

97.  To the same, April 24.-The Duke of Newcastle all-powerful.  The new Parliament.  Irish politics.  Drummond’s “Travels".-204