[257] Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xvii. p. 184. These letters were afterwards collected and sold for a guinea.
[258] In allusion to the expression of agony and dismay used some time before by Lord Kilmarnock.
[259] Somerville's Reign of Queen Anne, p. 175, 4to edition; from Lockhart and Macpherson.
[260] State Trials.
[261] Edinburgh Review, vol. xxvi. p 132.
[262] Horace Walpole.
[263] State Trials, vol. xviii. p. 326.
[264] Free Examination of the Life of Lord Lovat; London 1746.
[265] Mrs. Grant's MS.
[266] Anderson, p. 187.