[230] Sir John Cust.
[231] It was not strictly a new paper, but a series of occasional letters in the daily papers. Lord Sandwich will again be found a persecutor of the press in 1773; for printers were alternately, as they served his purposes, his tools or his prey.—[Mr. Scott afterwards received from Lord Sandwich the lucrative appointment of chaplain to Greenwich Hospital. He was more respectable in his profession than might have been expected from his having such a patron, and an accomplished scholar. See an anecdote to his honour, in Twiss’s Life of Lord Eldon.—E.]
[232] The club in Albemarle Street, erected by the late Opposition, now Ministers.
[233] To the bar of the House, whither members are ordered when they violate the rules or privileges of Parliament.
[234] Mrs. Burke was a Presbyterian; the belief, however, of her being a Papist was very general.—E.
[235] A lively description of Burke, as a speaker in the House of Commons, is given in Wraxall’s Hist. Mem. v. ii. p. 35.—E.
[236] William Burke was M. P. for Bedwin, in Wiltshire. He shared all his cousin’s fortunes, and lived with him on terms of the most intimate friendship. When the prospects of the Whigs seemed to be hopeless, he went to India; and through the support of Mr. Francis, obtained some lucrative offices. He was a person of considerable accomplishments. He survived Mr. Burke, and died in 1798.—E.
[237] This division was the result of a junction of the friends of the late ministers with the friends of Lord Bute.—(Chatham Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 380.)—E.
[238] Eldest son of Lord Bute.
[239] Lord George Sackville was intimate with Wedderburne, who had been counsel for him on his trial.