so late as I thought by an hour; Princess, will your Highness say how we shall divert ourselves till it is time to go to the play!” “Oh!” said she, “for my part you know I abominate every thing but pharaoh.”  “I am very sorry, Madam,” replied he, very gravely, “but I don’t know whom your Highness will get to tally to you; you know I am ruined by dealing’.”  “Oh!” says she, “the Count will deal to us.”  “I would with all my soul.” said the Count, “but I protest I have no money about me.”  She insisted:  at last the Count said, “Since your Highness commands us peremptorily, I believe Sir William has four or five hundred pounds of mine, that I am to pay away in the city to-morrow:  if he will be so good as to step to his bureau for that Sum, I will make a bank of it.”  Mr. Rodney owns he was a little astonished at seeing the Count shuffle with the faces of the cards upwards; but concluding that Sir ’William Burdett, at whose house he was, was a relation or particular friend of Lord Castledurrow, he was unwilling to affront my lord.  In short, my lord and he lost about a hundred and fifty apiece, and it was settled that they should meet for payment the next morning at breakfast at Ranelagh, In the mean time Lord C. had the curiosity to inquire a little int the character of his new friend the Baronet; and being au fait, he went up to him at Ranelagh and apostrophized him; “Sir William, here is the sum I think I lost last night; since that I have heard that you are a professed pickpocket, and therefore desire to have no further acquaintance with you.”  Sir William bowed, took the money and no notice; but as they were going away, he followed Lord Castledurrow and said, “Good God, my lord, my equipage is not come; will you be so good as to set me down at Buckingham-gate?” and without staying for an answer, whipped into the chariot and came to town with him.  If you don’t admire the coolness of this impudence, I shall wonder.  Adieu!  I have written till I can scarce write my name.(1504)

(1494) Lord Granville’s house in Arlington Street was the lowest in the street on the side of the Green-park-D.

(1495) John, second Viscount St. John, the only surviving son of Henry, first Viscount St. John, by his second wife, Angelica Magdalene, daughter of George Pillesary, treasurer-general of the marines in France, He was half-brother of the celebrated Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke, who was the only son of the said Henry, first Viscount St. John, by his first wife Mary, second daughter of Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick.  John, second Viscount St. John, was the direct ancestor of the present Viscount Bolingbroke and St. John.-D.

(1496) Sir Dudley Ryder.

(1497) In consequence of the University’s always electing Jacobites to that office.-D.

(1498) Lady Charlotte Boyle, second daughter of Richard, Earl of Burlington and Cork, and wife of William, Marquis of Hartington.

(1499) William Cavendish, afterwards fifth Duke of Devonshire, and Knight of the Garter.  He died in 1811.-D.