(551) This Mr. Clutterbuck had been raised by Lord Carteret, when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whom he betrayed to Sir R. Walpole; the latter employed him, but never would trust him.  He then ingratiated himself with Mr. Pelham, under a pretence of candour and integrity, and was continually infusing scruples into him on political questions, to distress Sir R. On the latter’s quitting the ministry, he appointed a board of treasury at his own house, in order to sign some grants; Mr. Clutterbuck made a pretence to slip away, and never returned.  He was a friend, too, of the Speaker’s:  when Sir R. W. was told that Mr. Onslow had resigned his place, and that Mr. Clutterbuck was to succeed him, said, “I remember that the Duke of Roxburgh, who was a great pretender to conscience, persuaded the Duke of Montrose to resign the seals of’ Secretary of state, on some scruple, and begged them himself the next day.”  Mr. Clutterbuck died very soon after this transaction. [Mr. Clutterbuck was appointed treasurer of the navy in May, and died in November following.]

(552) John, second and last Duke of Montagu, of the first creation.  He was a man of Some talent, and great eccentricity.  Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, his mother-in-law, Used to say of him, “My son-in-law Montagu is fifty, and he is still as mere a boy as if he was only fifteen.".-D.  On his death, in 1749),the title became extinct.)

(553) William-Anne Keppel, second Earl of Albemarle.  An amiable prodigal who filled various great offices, through the favour of Lady Yarmouth, who died insolvent.-D. [He married. in 1723, Lady Anne Lennox, daughter of Charles, first Duke of Richmond, and, whilst ambassador to the French court, died suddenly at Paris, in 1755.]

(554) Francis Greville, Lord Brooke, created an earl in 1746. [And, in 1759, raised to the dignity of Earl of Warwick.  He died in 1773.]

(555) “March 26.  The Pension Bill read a second time in the Lords.  Duke of Devonshire said a few words against it.  Lord Sandwich pleaded for it, that some persons now in the ministry had patronized it, and for their sakes it should be committed; Lord Romney, that some objections against it had been obviated by alterations.  These three speeches lasted scarce half a quarter of an hour.  The question being put for committing, not-content, 76; content, 46.  I was one of five bishops for it; Lord Carteret and Lord Berkeley against it.”  Secker 318.-E.

(556) Widow of the Emperor Joseph.  She was of the house of Wolfenbuttle.

(557) John Bowe, Esq. of Stowell, created a baron in May 1741.

246 Letter 62 To Sir Horace Mann.  April 15, 1742.