FOOTNOTES:
[68] Duke of Cumberland.
[69] He once, before Lord Waldegrave, said to the Prince, who excused his own inapplication on the foot of idleness, “Sir, yours is not idleness; your brother Edward is idle, but you must not call being asleep all day being idle.”
[70] On the removal of Sir Robert Walpole, the King had consented to make the Earls of Northampton and Ailesbury Dukes, but neither having a son, they declined that honour.
[71] That partiality was not cordial, but founded on their hatred to Fox, and probably from secret intimations that the Princess, who meant to adopt them, was inclined to Pitt, and abhorred Fox for his connexion with the Duke of Cumberland.
[72] A spurious speech having been vended for the King’s, it was complained of, I think by Lord Sandwich, in the House of Lords, and the authors punished; Lord Hardwicke still taking the lead very dictatorially, but occasionally flattering Pitt on the composition of the true one.