his being suspected.  He behaved well; but as soon as we had gained the victory, went off with his troop to the Pretender:  protesting that he had never feared death but that day, as he had been fighting against his conscience.  Popularity has changed sides since the year ’15, for now the city and the generality are very angry that so Many rebels have been pardoned.  Some of those taken at Carlisle dispersed papers at their execution, saying they forgave ’all men but three, the Elector of Hanover, the pretended Duke of Cumberland, and the Duke of Richmond, who signed the capitulation at Carlisle.(1273)

Wish Mr. Hobart joy of ])is new lordship; his father took his seat to-day as Earl of Buckingham -.  Lord Fitzwilliam is made English earl with him, by his old title.  Lord TankerVille(1274) goes governor to Jamaica:  a cruel method of recruiting a prodigal nobleman’s broken fortune, by sending him to pillage a province!  Adieu!

P. S. I have taken a pretty house at Windsor and am going thither for the remainder of the summer.

(1264) Charles Sackville, eldest son of Lionel, Duke of Dorset, a Lord of the Treasury.

(1265) She was born at Vienna, in February, 1724-5, and married to Garrick, the celebrated actor, in June, 1749.  She died in October, 1822, in the ninety-eighth year of her age.-E.

(1266) Second daughter of Thomas, Earl of Pomfret, and sister of Lady Granville.

(1267) William Finch, brother of the Earl of Winchilsea, had been ambassador in Holland.

(1268) Son of the Earl of Harrington, Secretary of State.

(1269) Eldest daughter of Charles, Duke of Grafton, Lord Chamberlain.

(1270) Edward, only son of Thomas, Earl of Leicester.

(1271) Lady Mary Campbell.  She survived her husband fifty-eight years; he having died in 1753, and she in 1811.-D.

(1272) Philip the Fifth, the mad and imbecile King of Spain, was just dead.  He was succeeded by his son Ferdinand the Sixth, who died in 1759.—­D.

(1273) A melancholy and romantic incident which took place amid the terrors of the executions is thus related by Sir Walter Scott:—­“A young lady, of good family and handsome fortune, who had been contracted in marriage to James Dawson, one of the sufferers, had taken the desperate resolution of attending on the horrid ceremonial.  She beheld her lover, after being suspended for a few minutes, but not till death (for such was the barbarous sentence), cut down, embowelled, and mangled by the knife of the executioner.  All this she supported with apparent fortitude; but when she saw the last scene, finished, by throwing Dawson’s heart into the fire, she drew her head within the carriage, repeated his name, and expired on the spot.”  This melancholy event was made, by Shenstone, the theme of a tragic ballad:—­

“The dismal scene was o’er and past,
The lover’s mournful hearse retired;
The maid drew back her languid head,
And, sighing forth his name, expired