FOOTNOTES:
[31] Mr. Fox, by Lord Hardwicke, on the Marriage Bill.
[32] The resignations on Lord Granville’s administration of three days.
[33] The House had very lately been much offended at a Marquis St. Simon, a Frenchman, taking notes in the gallery.
[34] The Scotch. The young Pretender, in one of his declarations, mentioned our pamphlets and libels as proofs of the dissatisfaction of the nation.
[35] A court where trifling causes are tried in the country; called so, from country fellows coming thither with dusty shoes, avec les pies poudres.
[36] It is worth remembering, that Hume Campbell, who now declaimed against invectives, and so much commended Sir Robert Walpole, had formerly in a speech called that Minister a tympany of corruption!
[37] The Duke of Bucks—alluding to the Duke of Newcastle.
[38] Spotted like a weasel.
[39] In 1744, when the great heats were raised against the Hanoverian troops, Lord Barrington, then in Opposition, used this phrase, “If an angel should come and tell us, I will separate you from Hanover, I will make you an island again.”
[40] Picture of the Duke of Newcastle, his great uncle.
[41] Baron Bothmar, the Hanoverian Minister.
[42] Lord Granby and George Townshend moved the Vote of Credit in the preceding session.
[43] Lord Holderness.
[44] The Duke of Bedford had received 1500l. for electing Jeffery French at one of his boroughs in the west; but he dying immediately, his heir sued the Duke for the money, who paid it, rather than let the cause be heard.
[45] Alexander Hume Campbell died of a fever, July 19, 1760.
[46] Lord Granville.
[47] Horace Walpole.
[48] Lord Granville.
[49] The Rebellion.
[50] At Laffelt.
[51] Vide [Appendix.]