[125] Gertrude Leveson, daughter of John Lord Gower, and second wife of John Russell, Duke of Bedford.
[126] Bedford House stands on the north side of Bloomsbury Square. It has low walls in front, and a garden backwards, with a fossé to the fields. [It was built from a design by Inigo Jones, and has shared the fate of other great mansions in the same quarter of London.—E.]
[127] Their son was married to one of Lord Bute’s daughters.
[128] A broken wine merchant, brother of Admiral Cotes.
[129] Lord Sandwich was the head of Mr. Wortley Montagu’s family.—E.
[130] Yet the same indiscreet step did the King take again in 1783, when he dismissed the Duke of Portland and Lord North, and what was called the Coalition, before he had made sure of another Administration; and he was for a few days in danger of being obliged to recal those he had just removed; Lord Temple, son of George Grenville, not daring to undertake the Administration after he had consented; and Mr. Pitt, son of Lord Chatham, being almost as timid, and fluctuating backwards and forwards for three or four days, before he at last determined to accept.
[131] In a letter to the Duke of Marlborough, of the 19th of May, the Duke of Bedford states, that he plainly charged the King on this occasion with having “very unfaithfully kept” the conditions on which he (the Duke) had accepted office, and urged on him the necessity of forming an efficient Administration. The only result was, that “I left him,” says the Duke, “as did all the rest, without being able to get an explicit answer.”—(Mem. of the House of Russell, vol. ii. p. 560.)—E.
[132] In setting no bounds to his hostilities, Lord Holland’s fear operated as much as his resentment. He said to me with great earnestness, “If Mr. Pitt should not be content with taking away my place, but should say, I will have a mark set on him!”
[133] This negotiation is not noticed in Lord Chatham’s published Correspondence.—E.
[134] George William Hervey, second Earl of Bristol.