(404) Queen Caroline, died November 1737.-D.

(405) This is now known to have been a rupture, with which the Queen was afflicted, and which she had the weakness to wish, and the courage to be able, to conceal.-E.

(406) The celebrated Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, oldest daughter of Evelyn, first Duke of Kingston, and wife of Wortley Montagu, Esq.-D.

(407) Marquis de Sabernego:  he returned to Spain after the death of Philip V.

(408) The Princess of Parma, second wife of Philip V. King of Spain, and consequently stepmother to the Prince of Asturias, son of that King, by his first wife, a princess of Savoy.-D.

(409) William Stanhope, created Lord Harrington in 1729, and Earl of the same in 1741.  He held various high offices, and was, at the time this was written, secretary of state.-D.

(410) Frances, youngest daughter of Lord Carteret, afterwards married to the Marquis of Tweedale. (in 1748.  The marquis was an extraordinary lord of session, and the last person who held a similar appointment.]

(411) Frederick Prince of Wales.-D.

(412) Brother to Lord Chesterfield.  This bon mot was occasioned by the numbers of Hamiltons which Lady Archibald Hamilton, the Prince’s mistress, had placed at that court.

(413) Nicholas Clagget, Bishop of St. David’s, succeeded, on Weston’s death, to the see of Exeter.-Dr. Clagget was, however, succeeded in the see of St. David’s by Dr. Edward Willes, Dean of Lincoln and decipherer to the King; and, in the following year, translated to the bishopric of Bath and Wells.  The art of deciphering, for which Dr. Willes was so celebrated, has been the subject of many learned and curious works by Trithemius, Baptista Porta, the Duke Augustus of Brunswick, and other more recent writers.  The Gentleman’s Magazine for 1742, contains a very ingenious system of deciphering:  but the old modes of secret writing having been, for the most part, superseded by the modern system of cryptography, in which, according to a simple rule which may be communicated verbally, and easily retained in the memory, the signs for the letters can be changed continually; it is the chiffre quarr`e or chiffre ind`echiffrable, used, if not universally, yet by most courts.  None of the old systems of deciphering are any longer available.]

212 Letter 51 To Sir Horace Mann.  Friday, Jan. 22, 1742.

Don’t wonder that I missed writing to you yesterday, my constant day:  you will pity me when you hear that I was shut up in the House of Commons till one in the morning.  I came away more dead than alive, and was forced to leave Sir R. at supper with my brothers:  he was all alive and in spirits.(414) He says he is younger than me, and indeed I think so, in spite of his forty years more.  My head aches to-night, but we rose early; and if I don’t write to-night when shall I find a moment to spare?  Now you want to know what we did last night; stay, I will