[483]1742, Report of Lord Lonsdale.
[484]In the present inflamed temper of the people, the Act could not be carried into execution without an armed force.—"Speech of Sir Robert Walpole."
[485]See Walpole's terrible speech against him, 1734.
[486]See, tor the truth of this statement, "Memoirs of Horace Walpole," 2 vols, ed. E. Warburton, 1851, I. 381, note.—Tr.
[487]Notes during a journey in England made in 1729 with Lord Chesterfield.
[488]Dr. W. King, "Political and Literary Anecdotes of his own Times," 1818, 27.
[489]Frederick died 1751. "Memoirs of Horace Walpole," I. 262.
[490]Walpole's "Memoirs of George II," ed. Lord Holland, 3 vols. 2d ed. 1847, I. 77.
[491]See the character of Birton in Voltaire's "Jenny."
[492]The original letter is in French. Chesterfield's "Letters to his Son," ed. Mahon, 4 vols. 1845; II. April 15, 1751, p. 127.