(276) Anne, eldest daughter of George the Second.  Walpole, in his Memoires, vol. i. p. 173, describes her as being immoderately jealous and fond of her husband :  “Yet,” adds he, “this Mars, who was locked in the arms of that Venus, was a monster so deformed, that when the King had chosen him for his son-in-law, he could not help, in the honesty of his heart and the coarseness of his expression, telling the Princess how hideous a bridegroom she was to expect; and even gave her permission to refuse him:  she replied, she would marry him if he was a baboon; “Well, then,” said the King, “there is baboon enough for you!"-E.

(279) Mary, daughter of the Viscount Fitzwilliam, formerly maid of honour to the Queen, and widow of Henry Herbert, Earl of Pembroke. [In the preceding month, Lady Pembroke had married North Ludlow Barnard, a major of dragoons.  She died in 1769.]

(280) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lady Mar, and the first wife of John, Lord Gower, were daughters of Evelyn Pierpoint, Duke of Kingston.

(281) Upon this passage Lord Wharncliffe observes, that “nothing whatever has been found to throw light upon the ill treatment of Lady Mar by Lady Mary, and that accusation is supposed, by those who would probably have heard of it if true, to be without foundation.”  Nine of the ten letters spoken of by Walpole, are given in his lordship’s edition of Lady Mary’s Works; and, in the opinion of the Quarterly Reviewer, “they confirm, in a very extraordinary way, Horace Walpole’s impression.”  See vol. viii. p. 191.-E.

(282) @Rachel, daughter of Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, lord treasurer.  One of these letters to Dr. Tillotson, to persuade him to accept the archbishopric, has been since printed, and a fragment of another of her letters, in Birch’s Life of that prelate.

(283) They were published in 1773, and met with such deserved success as to call for a Seventh edition of them in 1809.  In 1819, appeared a quarto volume, entitled “Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley, Lady Russell, with Letters from Lady Russell to her husband Lord Russell,” by the editor of Madame du Deffand’s Letters.-E.

(284) Consul at Genoa:  he had heard the report of Mr. Mann’s being designed for an embassy to Genoa.

118 Letter 50 To Sir Horace Mann.  Arlington Street, Nov. 22, 1751.

As the Parliament is met, you will, of course, expect to hear something of it:  the only thing to be told of it is, what I believe was never yet to be told of an English Parliament, that it is so unanimous, that we are not likely to have one division this session-Day, I think not a debate.(285) On the Address, Sir John Cotton alone said a few words against a few words of it.  Yesterday, on a motion to resume the sentences against Murray, who is fled to France, only two persons objected—­in short, we shall not be more a French Parliament when we are under French government.  Indeed, the two nations seem to have crossed over and figured in; one hears of nothing from Paris but gunpowder plots in a Duke of Burgundy’s cradle (whom the clergy, by a vice versa, have converted into a Pretender,) and menaces of assassinations.  Have you seen the following verses, that have been stuck up on the Louvre, the Pontneuf, and other places?