[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.