(50) Gray, in giving an account of the installation to his friend Wharton, says, “Every one, while it lasted, was very gay and very busy in the morning, and very owlish and very tipsy at night.  I make no exceptions, from the Chancellor to Blewcoat.  Mason’s Ode was the only entertainment that had any tolerable elegance, and for my own part, I think it (with some little abatements) uncommonly well on such an occasion.  Works, vol. iii. p. 67.-E.

(51) See Moli`ere’s Bourgeois Gentilhomme; in which the nouveau riche is persuaded that the Grand Seigneur has made him a mamamouchi, a knight of an imaginary order, and goes through the ceremony of a mock installation.-E.

(52) Thomas Osborne, fourth Duke of Leeds.—­D.

(53) Afterwards George the Third.-D.

(54) A weekly paper edited by Ralph.  It was undertaken a short time previous to the rebellion, to serve the purposes of Bubb Doddington; in whose Diary Ralph is frequently mentioned with especial approbation.—­E.

(55) The Duke of Cumberland-D.

(56) Dorothy, Countess of Burlington.  The Violette was a German dancer, first at the Opera and then at the playhouse; and in such favour at Burlington-house, that the tickets for her benefits were designed by Kent, and engraved by Vertue. [In the Gentleman’s Magazine, the lady is stated to have brought Garrick a fortune of ten thousand pounds.)

(57) This was frequently the case while the Duke of Newcastle and Mr.-Pelham were ministers; it was true, that in the case of the Violette just mentioned, one night that she had advertised three dances and danced but two, Lord Bury and some young men of fashion began a riot, and would have had her sent from Burlington-House.  It being feared that she would be hissed on her next appearance, and Lord Hartington, the cherished of Mr. Pelham, being son-in-law of Lady Burlington, the ministry were in great agitation to secure a good reception for the Violette from the audience, and the Duke was even desired to order Lord Bury (one of his lords) not to hiss.

(58) Henry Bromley, first Lord Montfort, so created in 1741.  He died in 1755.-D.

35 Letter 8 To George Montagu, Esq.  Mistley, July 5, 1749.

Dear George, I have this moment received your letter, and it makes me very unhappy,.  You will think me a brute for not having immediately told you how glad I should be to see you and your sisters; but I trust that you will have seen Mrs. Boscawen, by whom I sent you a message to invite you to Strawberry Hill, when we should be returned from Roel and Mistley.  I own my message had rather a cross air; but as you have retrieved all your crimes with me by your letter, I have nothing to do but to make myself as well with you as you are with me.  Indeed I am extremely unlucky, but I flatter myself that Messrs. Montagus will not drop their kind intention, as it is not in my power to receive it now:  they will give me infinite pleasure by a visit.  I stay there till Monday se’nnight; will that be too late to see you before your journey to Roel?  You must all promise, at least, to be engaged to me at my return.  If the least impediment happens afterwards, I shall conclude my brother has got you from me; you know jealousy is the mark of my family.