[From a printed paper annexed as a note by the author of the Memoirs.]
[43] Mr. Murray’s very first step to preferment was by presenting himself and being received into a commission in the Army, which had been made out for another Alexander Murray.
[44] John Perceval, the second Earl of Egmont of that name. He was scarce a man before he had a scheme of assembling the Jews, and making himself their King.
[45] One of the principal Independents was Blakiston, a grocer in the Strand, detected in smuggling, and forgiven by Sir R. Walpole; detected again and fined largely, on which he turned patriot, and has since risen to be an alderman of London, on the merit of that succedaneum to money—Jacobitism.
[46] It was called the “History of the House of Yvory,” in two large volumes. The collecting and consulting records and genealogies, and engraving and publishing, cost him (as the Heralds affirm) near £3000. He endeavoured afterwards to recall it, and did suppress a great many copies.
[47] Ethelreda Harrison, wife of Charles, Lord Viscount Townshend.
[48] Mr. Townshend had quitted the Army at the end of the last year, had connected himself with the Prince, and took all opportunities of opposing any of the Duke’s measures, and ridiculing him, and drawing caricatures of him and his Court, which he did with much humour. A bon mot of his was much repeated. Soon after he had quitted the Army, he was met at a review on the parade by Colonel Fitzwilliam, one of the Duke’s military spies, who said to him, “How came you, Mr. Townshend, to do us this honour?—but I suppose you only come as a spectator!” Mr. Townshend replied, “And why may not one come hither as a Spectator, Sir, as well as a Tatler?” Lord Robert Sutton was second son to the Duke of Rutland, and had been preferred to the command of a favourite regiment which the Duke had nearly instituted, before Lord Robert was of any rank in the Army; yet he deserted him, and accepted the place of Lord of the Bedchamber to the Prince.
[49] Honourable Henry Seymour Conway, second son of Lord Conway, and brother of the first Earl of Hertford. Commander-in-Chief in 1782; Field-Marshal in 1793.—E.
[50] This is surely a slip of the pen; should we not read unfashionable virtue?—E.
[51] This went by the name of the Robin Hood Society, and met every Monday. Questions were proposed, and any persons might speak on them for seven minutes; after which, the baker, who presided with a hammer in his hand, summed up the arguments.