Adieu!  I have answered your letter, and have nothing more to put into mine.

(1329) Charles Calvert, Lord Baltimore, had been a Lord of the Admiralty, on the change of the ministry in 1742.  He died soon after the Prince, in 1751.

(1330) Jane, sister of the Earl of Abercorn, and wife of Lord Archibald Hamilton, great-uncle of Duke Hamilton:  she had been mistress of the robes, etc. to the Princess of Wales, and the supposed mistress of the Prince.  She died at Paris, in December 1752.

(1331) She had been robbed of some of the most valuable gems of the famous Strozzi collection.

(1332) The Hon. George Townshend.  See what is said of him in a letter (221) of Oct. 14, 1746, and note 1300.-D.

(1333) It appeared afterwards that the person here mentioned, after having behaved very bravely, gave so perplexed an account of his own conduct, that the Admiralty thought it necessary to have it examined; but the inquiry proved much to his honour.

(1334) “Sir James Gray has sent me the copy of an advertisement, the publisher of which, he says, had been examined before the House of Commons, Lost or mislaid an ivory table-book, containing various queries vastly strong.”  Letter of Sir H. Mann, of Jan. 10th, 1747.  It probably related to the trial of the rebel Lords.-D.

(1335) Lady Henrietta Fermor, second wife of Mr. Conyers.

519 Letter 229 To Sir Horace Mann.  Arlington Street, Feb. 23, 1747.

Why, you do nothing but get fevers!  I believe you try to dry your Wet-brown-paperness, till you scorch it.  Or do you play off fevers against the Princess’s coliques?  Remember, hers are only for the support of her dignity, and that is what I never allowed you to have:  you must(1336) have twenty unlawful children, and then be twenty years in devotion, and have twenty unchristian appetites and passions all the while, before you may think of getting into a cradle with `epuisements and have a Monsieur Forzoni(1337) to burn the wings of boisterous gnats-pray be more robust-do you hear!

One would think you had been describing our Opera, not your own; we have just set out with one in what they call, the French manner, but about as like it, as my Lady Pomfret’s hash of plural persons and singular verbs or infinitive moods was to Italian.  They sing to jigs, and dance to church music -.  Phaeton is run away with by horses that go a foot’s-pace, like the Electress’s(1338) coach, with such long traces, that the postilion was in one street and the coachman in another;—­then comes Jupiter with a farthing-candle to light a squib and a half, and that they call fire-works.  Reginello, the first man, is so old and so tall, that he seems to have been growing ever since the invention of operas.  The first woman has had her mouth let out to show a fine set of teeth, but it lets out too much bad voice at the same time.(1339) Lord Middlesex, for his great prudence in having provided such very tractable