[88] Lionel Sackville, first Duke of Dorset, K.G., son of the celebrated Earl. He had gone through most of the great posts, having been successively Lord Steward, Lord President, and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, besides being employed on several foreign missions. Walpole describes him (Mem. Geo. II. vol. i. p. 244) as a man of dignity, caution, and plausibility, who, when left to himself, as in his first Lord-Lieutenantcy, had ruled Ireland to the universal satisfaction of that people. He was less successful when his son Lord George Germaine and Primate Stone were his advisers. He died on the 10th of October, 1763, aged 75. See more of him in Wraxall’s Hist. Mem. vol. ii. p. 415, and in Collins’s Peerage.—E.
[89] Such a post would certainly not have suited the modest, scrupulous, and pious author of the “Analogy,” and as his character was well known, it is very unlikely to have been destined for him,—though he was highly esteemed at Court. Had his friend Dr. Clarke filled the Archbishopric of Canterbury, which Queen Caroline is said to have so much desired, he would probably have been preferred, and with his parts and decision of character, might have become a very considerable man.—E.
[90] The King had then four brothers living: Edward Duke of York, and the Princes William, Henry, and Frederick.
[91] William Duke of Cumberland.
[92] John third Earl of Waldegrave, brother-in-law of the Duchess of Bedford.
[93] Parliamentary History, vol. xvi. p. 52.—E.
[94] The Address of both Houses.
[95] Edward Duke of York, the Princes William, Henry, and Frederick, and William Duke of Cumberland, son of George the Second.
[96] Henry Howard, Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, a young lord attached to Mr. Grenville, [afterwards Secretary of State. (See more of him infra.)—E.]
[97] Lord Northington.