[146] Boswell: Life of Samuel Johnson.
[147] "The hereditary revenues, being put under the same management as the other branches of the public patrimony, will produce more and be better collected than heretofore; and the public is a gainer of upwards of £100,000 per annum by this disinterested bounty of his Majesty."—Blackstone's Commentaries.
[148] The New Foundling Hospital for Wit.
[149] George Sackville Germaine (1716-1785), son of the seventh Earl and first Duke of Dorset, was known from 1720 to 1770 as Lord George Sackville, and from then as Lord George Germaine, until 1782, when he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Sackville.
[150] Walpole: Memoirs of George II.
[151] Bubb Dodington: Diary.
[152] Nicholls: Recollections and Reflections.
[153] Nicholls: Recollections and Reflections.
[154] John Russell, fourth Duke of Bedford (1710-1771).
[155] Another verse, with a similar allusion, is given in The New Foundling Hospital for Wit.