(535) the sisters omitted were, Lady Dalkeith, Lady Elizabeth Mackenzie, and Lady Mary Coke.-C.

(536) John Duke of Montagu left two daughters; the eldest, Isabella, married first the Duke of Manchester, and, secondly, Mr. Hussey, an Irish gentleman, created in consequence of this union, Lord Beaulieu.  Mary, the younger sister, married Lord Cardigan, who was, in 1776, created Duke of Montagu:  their eldest son having been in 1762, created Lord Montagu.  The marriage of the elder sister with Mr. Hussey was considered, by her family and the world, as a m`esalliance; and, therefore, the mistake of lord Beaulieu for Lord Montagu was likely to give offence.-C.

(537) It is now almost necessary to remind the reader, that old Bedlam stood in Moorfields.-C.

(538) Afterwards fifth Duke of Argyle.-E.

(539) He means, as subsequently appears, the Duke of Portland.-C.

(540) Lord Hertford’s eldest daughter, afterwards wife of Mr. Stewart, subsequently created Earl and Marquis of Londonderry.-E.

(541) Elizabeth Russell, daughter of the second Duke of Bedford.  She had four daughters; but the oldest died young.-E.

(542) Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Eyre, Esq. of Derbyshire, second wife of the first, and mother of the second, Earl of Massarene; the latter being at this time a minor.  The election was probably for the county of Antrim, in which both Lord Massarene and Lord Hertford had considerable property.-C.

(543) Princess Amelia’s, the corner of Harley Street; since the residence of Mr. Hope, and of mr.  Watson Taylor.-C.

(544) A rent-charge which had been granted him by the late Nabob, and which, on the seizure of the territory on which it was charged by the East India Company, Lord Clive insisted that the Company should continue to pay.  It was about twenty-five thousand pounds per annum.-C.

(545) A French philosopher, the son of a Dutch Physician brought into France by Louis XIV.  He was the author of a dull book mis-named “De l’Esprit.”  We cannot resist repeating a joke made about this period on the occasion of a requisition made by the French ministry to the government of Geneva, that it should seize copies of this book “De l’Esprit,” and Voltaire’s “Pucelle d’Orl`eans,” which were supposed to be collected there in order to be smuggled into France.  The worthy magistrates were said to have reported that, after the most diligent search, they could find in their whole town no trace “de l’Esprit, et pas une Pucelle."-C. [The following is Gibbon’s character of Helvetius, in a letter of the 12th of February, 1763:—­“Amongst my acquaintance I cannot help mentioning M. Helvetius, the author of the famous book ‘De l’Esprit.’  I met him at dinner at Madame Geoffrin’s, where he took great notice of me, made me a visit next day, has ever since treated me, not in a polite but a friendly manner.  Besides being a sensible man, an agreeable companion, and the worthiest creature in the world, he has a very pretty wife, an hundred thousand livres a-year, and one of the best tables in Paris.”  He died in 1771, at the age of fifty-six.-E.]