(1017) Walter Harte was tutor to Mr. Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield’s natural son, and through bis lordship’s interest made canon of Windsor.  Dr. Johnson describes him as a scholar, and a man of the most companionable talents he had ever known.”  “Poor man!” he adds, “he left London the day of the publication of his book, that he might be out of the way of the great praise he was to receive; and he was ashamed to return, when he found how ill his book had succeeded.  It was unlucky in coming out on the same day with Robertson’s History of Scotland.”  See Boswell, vol. viii. p. 53.  Lord Chesterfield writes to his son, on the 30th of March, “Harte’s work will, upon the whole, be a very curious and valuable history.  You will find it dedicated to one of your acquaintance, who was forced to prune the luxuriant praises bestowed upon him, and yet has left enough of all conscience to satisfy a reasonable man."-E.

(1018) It was afterwards written in five volumes in quarto, from authentic documents furnished by the Great-Duke himself.  It was published in Florence in 1781, and was entitled “Istoria del Gran Ducato di Toscana sotto il Governo delta Casa Medici, per Riguccio Galuzzi."-E.

(1019) Mr. Roscoe’s Life of Lorenzo do’ Medici appeared in 1796, and his Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth in 1805.-E.

(1020) See vol. i. p. 393, letter 151.

484 Letter 311
To Sir Horace Mann. 
Arlington Street, April 11, 1759.

I have waited and waited, in hopes of sending you the rest of Martinico or Guadaloupe; nothing else, as you guessed, has happened, or I should -have told you.  But at present I can stay no longer, for I, who am a little more expeditious than a squadron, have made a conquest myself, and in less than a month since the first thought started.  I hurry to tell you, lest you should go and consult the map of Middlesex, to see -whether I have any dispute about boundaries with the neighbouring Prince of Isleworth, or am likely to have fitted out a secret expedition upon Hounslow Heath—­in short, I have married, that is, am marrying, my niece Maria,(1021) my brother’s second daughter, to Lord Waldegrave.(1022) What say you?  A month ago I was told he liked her.—­does he?  I jumbled them together, and he has Already proposed.  For character and credit, he is the first match in England-for beauty, I think she is.  She has not a fault in her face and person, and the detail is charming.  A warm complexion tending to brown, fine eyes, brown hair, fine teeth, and infinite wit and vivacity.  Two things are odd in this match; he seems to have been doomed to a Maria Walpole—­if his father had lived, he had married my sister;(1023) and this is the second of my brother’s daughters that has married into the house of Stuart.  Mr. Keppel(1024) comes from Charles, Lord Waldegrave from James ii.  My brother has luckily been tractable, and left the whole management to me.  My family don’t lose any rank or advantage, when they let me dispose of them—­a knight of the garter for my niece; 150,000 pounds for my Lord Orford if he would have taken her;(1025) these are not trifling establishments.