Oh! that in this rolling ocean
I had cast them with disdain,
And obeyed my heart's warm motion
To have quelled the pride of Spain."
[6] Brother of Francis, Maria Theresa's husband.
[7] For the consecutive history of India, see p. 1113.
[8] See p. 1119.
[9] He seldom spoke. When Lord Sandwich was one day attacking him, a friend asked him, "How could you worry a poor dumb creature so?"
[10] The old Duke of Cumberland had died in 1765.
[11] The patronage was worth more than £300,000 a year; besides the governor and the councils, there was one place of £25,000 a year, one of £15,000, five of £10,000, five of £9000, one of £7500, three of £2000, and so on.