(10) William Beckford, Esq.  Lord Mayor of London, who died on the 21st of June, during his second mayoralty, in the sixty-fifth year of his age.  On the 5th of the following month, at a meeting of the Common Council, “a motion being made and question put, that the statue of the Right Hon. William Beckford, late Lord Mayor, deceased, be erected in the Guildhall of this city, with the inscription of his late address to his Majesty, the was resolved in the affirmative.”  The speech here alluded to is the one which the Alderman addressed to his Majesty on the 23d of May, with reference to the King’s reply—­“That he should have been wanting to the public, as well as to himself, if he had not expressed his dissatisfaction at the late address.”  At the end of the Alderman’s speech, in his copy of the City Addresses, Mr. Isaac Reed has inserted the following note:—­“It is a curious fact, but a true one, that Beckford did not utter one syllable of this speech.  It was penned by Horne Tooke, and by his art put on the records of the city and on Beckford’s statue; as he told me, Mr. Braithwaite, Mr. Sayers, etc. at the Athenian club.  Isaac Reed.”  There can be little doubt that the worthy commentator and his friends were imposed upon.  In the Chatham Correspondence, vol. iii. p. 460, a letter from Sheriff Townsend to the Earl expressly states, that with the exception of the words “and necessary” being left out before the word “revolution,” the Lord Mayor’s speech in the Public Advertiser of the preceding day is verbatim the one delivered to the King.—­E.

(11) George third Earl of Cholmondeley.  He married, in 1723, Mary the youngest daughter of @Sir Robert Walpole.-E.

Letter 7 To George Montagu, Esq.  Adderbury, Sunday night, July 1, 1770. (page 32

You will be enough surprised to receive a letter from me dated from your own house, and may judge of my mortification at not finding you here; exactly as it happened two years ago.  In short, here I am, and will tell you how I came here; in truth, not a little against my will.  I have been at Park-place with Princess Amelia, and she insisted on my meeting her at Stowe to-morrow.  She had mentioned it before, and as I have no delight in a royal progress, and as little in the Seigneur Temple, I waived the honour and pleasure, and thought I should hear no more of it.  However, the proposal was turned into a command, and every body told me I could not refuse.  Well, I could not come so near, and not call upon you; besides, it is extremely convenient to my Lord Castlecomer, for it would have been horrid to set out at seven o’clock in the morning, full-dressed, in my weepers, and to step out of my chaise into a drawing-room.  I wrote to you on Friday, the soonest I could after this was settle(], to notify myself to you, but find I am arrived before my letter.  Mrs. White is all goodness; and being the first of July, and consequently the middle of winter, has given