(596) No doubt Mr. George Grenville is here meant.  See ant`e, p. 257, letter 184.-E.

(597) This list was, Sir Ralph Gore, Sir Richard King, and Mr. Stephen Moote, all created peers in this summer by the respective titles of Bellisle, Kingston, and Kilworth.-C.

(598) Adolphus Frederick iii.  Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, the Queen’s brother.  He died in 1794.-C.

(599) Mr. George Bridgman, brother of the first Lord Bradford.  He had been many years surveyor of the royal gardens, and was celebrated for his taste in ornamental gardening.  He died at Lisbon, in 1767.-C.

(600) Probably Charles Sloane Cadagan, son of the second Lord Cadogan, who was treasurer to Edward Duke of York.-C.

(601) Jeremiah Dyson, Esq. afterwards a privy-counsellor.-E.

(602) See ant`e, p. 262, letter 185.

(603) Mr. Hussey was an Irishman.  See ant`e, p. 251.-E.

(604) Margaret Davis, sister and Heiress of Edward, the last Viscount Mountcashel of that family, and widow of James Earl of Barrymore.-C.

Letter 205 To The Hon. H. S. Conway.  Strawberry Hill, Saturday night, eight o’clock, April 21, 1764. (page 316)

I write to you with a very bad headache; I have Passed a night, for which George Grenville and the Duke of bedford shall pass many an uneasy one!  Notwithstanding that I heard from every body I met, that your regiment, as well as bedchamber, were taken away, I would not believe it, till last night the Duchess of Grafton told me, that the night before the Duchess of Bedford said to her, “Are not you sorry for Poor Mr. Conway?  He has lost every thing.”  When the Witch of Endor pities, one knows she has raised the devil.

I am come hither alone to put my thoughts into some order, and to avoid showing the first sallies of my resentment, which I know you would disapprove; nor does it become your friend to rail.  My anger shall be a little more manly, and the plan of my revenge a little deeper laid than in peevish bon-mots.  You shall judge of my indignation by its duration.

In the mean time, let me beg you, in the most earnest and most sincere of all professions, to suffer me to make your loss as light as it is in my power to make it:  I have six thousand pounds in the funds; accept all, or what part you want.  Do not imagine I will be put off with a refusal.  The retrenchment of my expenses, which I shall from this hour commence, will convince you that I mean to replace Your fortune as far as I can.  When I thought you did not want it, I had made another disposition.  You have ever been the dearest person to me in the world.  You have shown that you deserve to be so.  You suffer for your spotless integrity.  Can I hesitate a moment to show that there is at least one man who knows how to value you?  The new will, which I am going to make, will be a testimonial of my own sense of virtue.