(441) The Hereditary Prince, who came to England to marry the Princess Augusta, eldest sister of George iii.  He landed at Harwich on the 12th of January, and arrived the same evening at Somerset-house, where he was lodged.  Lady Chatham, in a letter to Mr. Pitt, relates the following anecdotes Mrs. Boscawen tells me, that while the Prince was at Harwich, the people almost pulled down the house in which he was, in order to see him.  A substantial Quaker insisted so strongly upon seeing him, that he was allowed to come into the room:  he pulled off his hat to him, and said, ‘Noble friend, give me thy hand!’ which was given, and he kissed it; ’although I do not fight myself, I love a brave man that will fight:  thou art a valiant Prince, and art to be married to a lovely Princess:  love her, make her a good husband, and the Lord bless you both!’” See Chatham Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 272.-E.

 (442) The Prince’s chief secretary.-E.

(443) Granville, second Earl Gower, afterwards first Marquis:  groom of the stole.-E.

(444) William Charles Henry, Prince of Orange, who, in 1734, married Anne, eldest daughter of George ii.-E.

(445) Alicia Ashley, wife of Charles, third Earl of Tankerville, lady of the bedchamber to Princess Augusta.  Nothing but Mr. Walpole’s facetious ingenuity could have tortured the Prince’s little attention to Lady Tankerville into a desire to insult the King.-C.

(446) Mr. Wilkes had thought it prudent to retire to Paris, under circumstances which certainly rendered it unlikely that the King’s ambassador should pay him any kind of civil attention.-C.

(447) Again Mr. Walpole’s partiality blinds him.  “The Duellist” is surely far from being the finest of Churchill’s works.  Mr. Walpole’s own feelings are strongly marked by the glee with which he sees hemlock administered to his old friend Lord Holland, and by being charmed with the abuse of Bishop Warburton.-C.

(448) Mr. Walpole, by one of those happy expressions which make the chief charm of his writings, characterizes the stately formality of this noble lord.  His house at Witham is close to the great road, a little beyond the town of Witham.  Her late Majesty, Queen Charlotte, slept there on her way to London, in 1761.-C.

(449) Mr. Walpole probably understood his lordship to mean that a Serene Highness was not sufficiently important to require his attendance at Witham.-C.

(450) Wilkes was convicted, in the Court of King’s Bench, on the 21st of January, the day before this letter was begun, of having written the Essay on Woman.-C.

(451) Mr. Kidgel, a clergyman, had obtained from a printer a copy of the Essay on Woman, which he said he felt it his duty to denounce.  His own personal character turned out to be far from respectable.-C.

(452) The opposition club was in Albemarle-street, and the ministerial at the Cocoa-tree; and the papers of the day had several political letters addressed to and from these clubs.-C.