77 redans: projecting fortifications.
the talus of the glacis: the pitch of the outer slope of an earthwork.
banquettes: the raised way running along the inside of a rampart.
78 chamade: a signal given by drum, announcing surrender.
79 a new reign: George II died on October 25, 1760.
80 a rag of quality: Horace Walpole was a younger son of Sir Robert Walpole (Earl of Orford).
81 the Duke of Cumberland: second son of George II.
a dark brown adonis: a kind of wig.
the Duke of Newcastle: the Prime Minister.
83 Goldsmith's Citizen of the World consists of a series of letters on European manners and customs, purporting to be written by a Chinaman who has never before visited England.