(583) See ante, p. 281, letter 191.

(584) Mr. Pitt.

(585) Frederick, Duke of York, born in August 1763, elected Bishop of Osnaburgh, 27th of February, 1764.-E.

(586) Second daughter of the third Earl Fitzwilliam, born in 1746.-E.

(587) Sir Lawrence Dundas, father of the first Lord Dundas, is said to have made his fortune in the commissariat, during the Scotch rebellion of 1745.-C.

(588) Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Dashwood, Bart. and wife of the fourth Duke of Manchester.-E.

(589) Second son of the fourth Duke of Argyle.  He was successively keeper of the privy seal in Scotland, secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and lord register of’ Scotland, in which office he died.-C.

(590) “On the 25th of April, a very warm contest took place.  Mr. Sullivan brought forward one list of twenty-five directors, and Mr. Rous, who was supported by Lord Clive, produced another.  Notwithstanding his friend Lord Bute was no longer minister, Mr. Sullivan succeeded in bringing in half his numbers; but the attack of Lord Clive had so shaken the power of this lately popular director, that his own election was only carried by one vote.”  Malcolm’s Memoirs of Lord Clive, vol. ii. p. 235.-E.

(591) The eldest daughter of John Duke of Argyle and Greenwich, the widow of Francis Earl of Dalkeith, son of the second Duke of Buccleugh, and wife of Mr. Charles Townshend.  She was, in 1767, created Baroness Greenwich, with remainder to her sons by Mr. Townshend.  She, however, died leaving none.-C.

Letter 202 To The Rev. Mr. Cole.  Arlington Street, April 12, 1764. (page 313)

I shall send your Ms. volume this week to Mr. Cartwright, and with a thousand thanks.  I ought to beg your pardon for having detained it so long.  The truth is, I had not time till last week to copy two or three little things at most.  Do not let this delay discourage you from lending me more.  If I have them in summer I shall keep them much less time than in winter.  I do not send my print with it as you ordered me, because I find it is too large to lie within the volume; and doubling a mezzotinto, you know, spoils it.  You shall have one more, if you please, whenever I see you.

I have lately made a few curious additions to my collections of various sorts, and shall hope to show them to you at Strawberry Hill.  Adieu!

Letter 203 To The Hon. H. S. Conway.  Arlington Street, April 19, 1764. (page 313)

I am just come from the Duchess of Argyll’s,(592) where I dined.  General Warburton was there, and said it was the report at the House of Lords, that you are turned out—­he imagined, of your regiment—­but that I suppose is a mistake for the bedchamber.(593) I shall hear more to-night, and Lady Strafford, who brings you this, will tell you; though to be sure You will know earlier by the post to-morrow.  My only reason for writing is, to repeat to you, that whatever you do, I shall act with you.(594) I resent any thing done to you as to myself.  My fortunes shall never be separated from yours—­except that some time or other I hope yours will be great, and I am content with mine.