p S. I have not room to say any thing to the Tesi till next post; but, unless she will sing gratis, would advise her to drop this thought.

(1234) Philip Yorke, lord Hardwicke.

(1235 henry Pelham.

(1236) William ker, third marquis of Lothian.  Lord Robert Ker, who was killed at Culloden, was his second son.—­D.

(1237) Margaret, lady Balmerino, daughter of Captain chalmers.—­D.

(1238) The duke of Perth, being a young man of delicate frame, expired on his passage to France.—­E.

(1239) Lord Dunbar.

(1240) Kilmarnock, Erroll, Linlithgow, and Calendar.—­D.

(1241) Patrick Murray, fifth Lord Elibank.—­D.

(1242) Thomas, second Lord Foley, of the first creation.—­D.

(1243) James Stewart, ninth Earl of Moray.  His mother was jean Elphinstone, daughter of John, fourth Lord Balmerino.—­D.

(1244) Robert Windsor, second viscount Windsor in Ireland.  He sat in Parliament as Lord Mountjoy of the isle of Wight.  He died in 1758, when His titles extinguished.—­D.

(1245) Harry Grey, died in 1768.—­D.

(1246) Alluding to Mr. Pitt, who had lately been preferred to that post, from the fear the ministry had of his abusive eloquence.

(1247) Charles, fifth Lord Cornwallis.  He was created an earl in 1753, and died in 1762.-D.

(1248) James, sixth Duke of Hamilton:  died in 1758.-D.

(1249) “The Duke,” says Sir Walter Scott, " was received with all the honours due to conquest; and all the incorporated bodies of the capital, from the guild brethren to the butchers, desired his acceptance of the freedom of their craft, or corporation.”  Billy the Butcher was one of his by-names.-E.

(1250) Charles Stuart, fifth Earl of Traquair.-D.

494 Letter 212
To George Montagu, Esq. 
Arlington Street, Aug. 2, 1746.

Dear George, You have lost nothing by missing yesterday at the trials, but a little additional contempt for the High Steward; and even that is recoverable, as his long, paltry speech is to be printed; for which, and for thanks for it, Lord Lincoln moved the House of Lords.  Somebody said to Sir Charles Windham, “Oh! you don’t think Lord Hardwicke’s speech good, because you have read Lord Cowper’s.”—­“No,” replied he; “but I do think it tolerable, because I heard Serjeant Skinner’s."(1251) Poor brave old Balmerino retracted his plea, asked pardon, and desired the Lords to intercede for mercy.  As he returned to the Tower, he stopped the coach at Charing-cross to buy honey-blobs as the Scotch call gooseberries.  He says he is extremely afraid Lord Kilmarnock will not behave well.  The Duke said publicly at his levee, that the latter proposed murdering the English prisoners.  His Highness was to have given Peggy Banks a ball last night; but was persuaded to defer it, as it would have rather looked like an insult on the prisoners, the very day their sentence was passed.  George Selwyn says that he had begged Sir William Saunderson to get him the High Steward’s wand, after it was broke, as a curiosity; but that he behaved so like an attorney the first day, and so like a pettifogger the second, that he would not take it to light his fire with; I don’t believe my Lady Hardwicke is so high-minded.