(375) “Where awful arches make a noonday night, And the dim windows shade a solemn light."-Pope.-E.

(376) Ambassador from the King of Naples.

(377) Viviani, a Florentine nobleman, showing the triumphal arch there to Prince San Severino, assured him, and insisted upon it, that it was begun and finished in twenty-four hours!

(378) The King of Prussia.

(379) This is a strange story, and it is difficult to believe that the King of Prussia was concerned in it.  In his Memoires, Walpole gives the following account of the taking of Dr. Cameron:—­“About this time was taken in Scotland, Dr. Archibald Cameron, a man excepted by the act of indemnity.  Intelligence had been received some time before of his intended journey to Britain, with a commission from Prussia to offer arms to the disaffected Highlanders, at the same time that ships were hiring in the north to transport men.  The fairness of Dr. Cameron’s character, compared with the severity he met from a government most laudably mild to its enemies, confirmed this report.  That Prussia, who opened its inhospitable arms to every British rebel, should have tampered in such a business, was by no means improbable.  That King hated his uncle:  but could a Protestant potentate dip in designs for restoring a popish government?  Of what religion is policy?  To what sect is royal revenge bigoted?  The Queen-dowager, though sister of our King, was avowedly a Jacobite, by principle so-and it was natural:  what Prince, but the single one who profits by the principle, can ever think it allowable to overturn sacred hereditary right?  It is the curse of sovereigns that their crimes should be unpunishable."-D.

(380) The King.

(381) No. 17, giving an account of the races and manners at Newmarket.-E.

(382) It forms the 18th number, and is entitled " A Country Gentleman’s Tour to Paris with his family."-E.

(383) Lady Juliana Collier, youngest daughter of Charles, second Earl of Portmore, by Juliana hale, Duchess-dowager of Leeds.  She married, in 1759, James Dawkins, Esq. of Standlinch, in Wiltshire.-D.

(384) It did not happen.

164 Letter 76
To The Hon. H. S. Conway. 
Strawberry Hill, May 5, 1753.

Though my letter bears a country date, I am only a passenger here, just come to overlook my workmen, and repose myself upon some shavings, after the fatigues of the season.  You know balls and masquerades always abound as the weather be(,Ins to be too hot for them, and this has been quite a spring-tide of diversion.  Not that I am so abandoned as to have partaken of all; I neither made the Newmarket campaign under the Duke, nor danced at any ball, nor looked well at any masquerade:  I begin to submit to my years, and amuse myself-only just as much as I like.  Indeed, when parties and politics are at an end, an Englishman may be allowed not to b always grave and out of humour.  His Royal Highness has won as many hearts at Newmarket as he lost in Scotland; he played deep and handsomely; received every body at his table with the greatest good humour, and permitted the familiarities of the place with ease and sense.