[215] 'Not he:' Paul Whitehead, the profligate satirist.
[216] 'Laureate:' William Whitehead, the poet laureate.
[217] 'Play': alluding to Whitehead's comedy of the 'School for
Lovers.'
[219] 'Hunter:' Miss Hunter, one of Queen Charlotte's maids of honour,
eloped on the day of the coronation with the Earl of Pembroke.
[220] 'Funeral Pomps:' alluding to certain improprieties at the interment of George the Second, which took place the 11th of November 1760.
[221] 'Coronations:' the coronation of George the Third on the 22d of September 1761.
[222] 'Hart:' a dancing-master of the day.
[223] 'A set:' an invidious reflection on the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, founded in the year 1753.
[224] 'Bourbon's:' the family compact between France and Spain.
[225] 'Gazette:' the Brussels Gazette, a notorious paper of that time.