[319] George Spencer, Duke of Marlborough.
[320] John Manners, Duke of Rutland, father of Lord Granby.
[321] Granville Leveson Gower, Earl Gower, brother of the Duchess of Bedford.
[322] John Calcraft began with being clerk in the War Office at 40l. a year. [He was a very shrewd, intelligent man, and gained great popularity with the army by his liberal conduct and hospitality to the officers.—E.]
[323] This charge is entirely unfounded. Had there been any truth in it, the connection between Mr. Fox and Mr. Calcraft would not have been so easily dissolved.—E.
[324] It is in reference to Mr. Rigby’s conduct that Lord Holland probably alludes to the following passage of a letter to Mr. Selwyn of October 5, 1763: “I drop all politics that may not go by the post, till I see you, when I will tell you all I know of them, with the trait I mentioned. Had it been from a political friend only, I should be ashamed to be hurt by it. No politics will or can mortify me; I thought this man’s friendship had not been only political. I loved him; and whether to feel or not to feel, to despise or grieve, on such an occasion, be most worthy of a man, I won’t dispute; but the fact is that I have been, and still am, whenever I think of it, very unhappy.” Selwyn Correspondence, vol. i. p. 267.—E.
[325] Lady Isabella Fitzroy, second daughter of Charles Duke of Grafton.
[326] Then held by Mr. Aislabie for life.
[327] Secretary to the Treasury. [He derived no benefit from this appointment, having died some years before Walpole.—E.]
[328] Collector of the Customs. Sir Robert Walpole held it for his own life, and for the lives of his two eldest sons, with power of bequeathing it for their lives to any child he pleased.