Queensberry and of Lord Lincoln. The bootikins. Mrs. Anne

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Nov. 16.-Walpole afflicted with gout. Loss of Dominica. Our

fleets and armies. The Hibernian family at Florence.

Countess Dowager of Berkeley

Nov. 27.-Sir Horace Mann's nephew. Treatment of the gout.

Opening of Parliament. Sir Henry Clinton and our West-

Indian islands. The French party in Holland

Dec. 18.-Late hours. Codicil to Walpole's gout. Rash pro-

clamation in America. Court-martial on Admiral Keppel.

Gallantry of great dames. Sale of the pictures at Houghton.

Death of Mr. Worseley

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Jan. 5.-Prognostications for the coming year. Unpopularity of

Admiral Keppel's trial. Remonstrance against it presented to

the King by Lord Hawke, and eleven other admirals. Wal-

pole's illness. Mann's indisposition and low spirits. Effusion

of his friendship for Walpole. Commencement of Keppel's

trial

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Jan. 29. The Court-martial on Admiral Keppel. Its probable

effects. Death of Garrick. Report about Lord Maynard. The

Duke of Dorset and Lady Derby

Feb. 11.-Triumph of Admiral Keppel.

tion in Edinburgh against the Papists.

ticularly in the Admiralty. Retirement of Lord Suffolk. Lord

Buckingham quits Ireland. Mediation of Spain. The Duke of

Medina Sidonia. Virtue of patience and submission.

Houghton pictures. Joy on the acquittal of Keppel. Old Lady

Albemarle. Palliser's escape from Portsmouth. His house in

Pall Mall forced by the mob, and entirely gutted. Heat of the

weather

The

Feb. 18.-Renewed illuminations on the acquittal of Admiral

Keppel. Vote of thanks to him by the Lords and Commons.

Palliser's resignation of his seat at the Admiralty and in Parlia-

ment. Lord Sandwich. Negociations with the Opposition.

Admiral Keppel at the House of Commons. More illumination.

Address to the King to remove Palliser from all his military em-

ployments. Exultation of the City against the French

Feb. 25.-Disgrace brought on the Court by the persecution of
Admiral Keppel. Capture of St. Lucia. Expedition to Georgia.
Deplorable prospect. The loan. New taxes and new discon-

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Indifference and dissipation of the country. War of pri-

vateering. Backwardness of Spain. England saved from slavery,

planned by the Scots. Temperate behaviour of Admiral Kep-

pel. Riots

March 9.-Fluctuation of the majority in the House of Commons.

Questions relating to the Fleet. Death of Lord Suffolk. Sir

Horace Mann's nephew. French prizes. D'Estaing's woful figure.

Scarcity of heroes. The Emperor and the King of Prussia.

Dearth of private news.
Political invectives in the newspapers.

Lady Maynard and the Countesses of Berkeley and Orford.

Speech in Parliament, against the Court, of Sir Horace Mann

the younger

March 22.-Conquest of Pondicherry. Mann's nephew votes

again with the Court. The place of Secretary of State not filled.

Injury to the French trade by our captures. Bill to discourage

the crime of adultery. Fallacious hopes and promises. Mon-

sieur de la Fayette, and the Congress of America. D'Estaing

blockaded at Martinico

April 17.-" Parenthesis of Opposition," by Sir Horace Mann's ne-

phew. The political horizon. Sir Hugh Palliser's trial. Assas-

sination of Miss Ray. Trial of her murderer. His execution.

Fox's motion for the removal of Lord Sandwich

April 24.—Bootikins for hands and feet. Expected decision of

Spain. Fallacy of the rise in Stocks. Motion in each House for

the removal of Lord Sandwich. Palliser. The Howes. Lord

Lyttelton. Governor Johnstone. Rumours of peace. Insin-

cerity and cunning

May 9.-Invasion of Jersey. Admiral Arbuthnot and General

Conway. Repulse of the invaders. Sailing of the Brest fleet.

Ireland following the example of America. Impolitic conduct of

the English. Inquiry by the House of Commons into the con-

duct of the American war. Shameful acquittal of Palliser. By-

ron and D'Estaing. The Presbyterians of Scotland. Mrs. Anne

Pitt. Lady Lucan's talent for the fine arts. Lord Bristol,

Bishop of Derry

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May 29. Neutrality of Spain. Expected attempt on Ireland.

False report about Byron and D'Estaing. Examination by the

House of Commons into the conduct of Generals and Admirals.

Tragedy of "The Mysterious Mother." Mann's nephew. De-

pravation of England. Lord Cornwallis sent to command Ame-

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fleet. National delusion. Retrospect of correspondence with

Mann. Reflections on war. Gloomy speculations of a solitary

man

June 30.-Sir Horace Mann the younger. Ruin brought upon Eng-
land by incapable politicians. Expected engagement between
our fleet and the united one of France and Spain. Ireland in
danger. The nation infatuated. Prophecies of the Opposition
verified. Insolence and despotism of the Ministry. Obstinacy
of prerogative. The Administration and Opposition. Walpole's
ideas on the state of affairs

July 7.—The war with Spain. Great preparations at Cadiz and in

the ports of France. Open division in the Ministry. Projected

visit to Mann of his nephew. Character of the Italians and the

French. Death of the Duke of Ancaster. His character.

Magnificent bounties of Fortune to Peter Burrell's family. The

Duchesses of Ancaster. Medal on the alliance between the

Great-Duke of Tuscany and the Emperor of Morocco. Expected

invasion from Havre. Probable surrender of Charlestown. The

fleet at Torbay. Mr. Conway. Treachery of the Court. Booti-

kins sent to Mann. Lady Horatia Waldegrave and the late Duke

of Ancaster. Humiliation of England

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Sale of the

General Conway. Con-

Policy of France

Aug. 4. Safe arrival of our great West-India fleet.

Gibraltar. Junction of French and Spanish ships.

pictures at Houghton to the Czarina.

quest of St. Vincent by the French.

Aug. 19.-Movements of the French and Spanish squadrons. Re-
flections on public and private duties
Sep..5.-The combined fleets. Sir Charles Hardy. Captain Bote-
ler's gallant defence of his ship. All the world are politicians or
soldiers

Sep. 16.-Dreadful eruption of Vesuvius. News of D'Estaing's
success against Byron and Barrington, and of the capture of Gre-
nada. Sir Charles Hardy and D'Orvilliers. Our aggressions
in the East. Reflections. Death of Lord Temple. His cha-

racter

Oct. 11.-Surprisal of Stony Point by the Americans. D'Orvilliers.
Mortality in the combined fleets. Solemn lies. France and the
Emperor of Germany. State of Walpole's health. His new
house in Berkeley Square. Wisdom of visions
Oct. 14.-Introduction of Mr. Windham to Sir Horace Mann
Oct. 31.-Lady Diana Beauclerc's drawings of scenes in "The
Mysterious Mother." Mr. Windham. Threatening position of

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Ireland. The combined fleets from Brest. Lord Stormont's pro-

motion. General Conway

Nov. 12.-Zoffani's picture of the Tribune at Florence. Disagree-

ment among the admirals of the combined fleet. Expected

changes. Walpole's brother. Return to London of Mann's ne-

phew. Vesuvius

Nov. 28.-Meeting of the Parliament. Numbers on the division.

Convenient method of voting. Resignation of Lords Gower and

Weymouth. Concurrence of untoward circumstances. Lord

North. Accession to the Ministry of Lords Bathurst and Hills-

borough. D'Estaing's fleet dispersed by a tempest. Ireland in

danger. Wilkes as Chamberlain of London. Mrs. Montagu's

poem on Shakspeare. Sudden death of Lord Lyttelton. Duel

between Charles Fox and Mr. Adam

Dec. 20.—Parliamentary transactions.

land. Rich captures from Spain.

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Jan. 4.-Probable war with Holland. Capture by Captain Field-

ing of Dutch merchant-men, and men-of-war. Reflections on age

and illness

Jan. 13.-A Dutch war not likely. General discontent. D'Estaing's

reception in France. Reflections on Sir Robert Walpole and his

enemies, Swift, Bolingbroke, Bathurst, and Gay. Policy of

France injurious to herself. Character of Bolingbroke, Bathurst,

Gay, and Swift

Feb. 6.-Petitions from two-and-twenty counties. Consternation

of the Court. Counter-protests. Meeting in Westminster. Charles

Fox and Wilkes. Party transformations. Lord George Gordon,

an apostle against the Papists. Mad Lords. Gambling at the

Cocoa-tree. Anecdote of Mr. O'Birne, and Mr. (afterwards

Admiral Sir Eliab) Harvey. Seizure of the province of Oude.

The Grand Lama. Anecdote. Reflections

Feb. 22.-Rodney's victory over the Spaniards.

general election. Division on Sir George Savile's demand for a

list of the King's pensions. Importance of provincial committees.

Probable change of men and measures. Stormy aspect of the

political horizon. Death of Lady Catherine Pelham

March 3.-Mr. Burke's bill of Reformation. Increase of associa-
tions in the counties. Sir George Rodney's victory. Admiral

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Parker's success.

M. Necker's church reforms. Reflections on

diversions, politics, and age

March 14.-Ministry defeated on Mr. Burke's bill. Wrangling

between Lord North and the Speaker. Obstinacy of the Court.

Desirableness of change

March 21.-Ministerial majority on the debate on the King's

household. Career of the Opposition checked. Dishonourable

attack on Lord North by Temple Luttrell. Extravagant as-

sumption of the county associations resisted by Lord Rocking-

ingham and his party, and advocated by Lord Shelburne and

Charles Fox. Reflections on attempts to mend the Constitution.

The Easter recess. A "grim repose." Duels

April 8.-Signal defeat of the Court on Mr. Dunning's bold motion.

A decisive blow. Reflections on the crisis. The orator, Dr.

Jebb. Duel between Lord Shelburne and Mr. Fullarton. Wal-

pole the dupe of his own penetration. Declining majority against

Ministers

April 17.-Fluctuation in the House of Commons. Ministerial

majority. Parliamentary inconsistency. Illness of the Speaker.

Adjournment of the Commons. Rejection of the new tests of

the associations. Manifesto of the Court of St. Petersburgh.

Mr. Windham at Florence. Walpole a settled Whig. Return

to the House of the Speaker. Rejection of Dunning's motion.

Discomfiture of the Opposition

May 13.-Confirmation of the Ministerial recovery. Reflections

on the youth, maturity, and senility of the globe. Languor of

the war. Death of Sir Charles Hardy. Walpole's shattered

nerves. Mann's nephew

June 5.-Naval engagement in the West-Indies.

Lord George

Gordon and the Protestant Association. Meeting in St. George's

Fields of the conservators of the Church of England. Violence

of Lord George Gordon. Peers assaulted in their way to the

House of Lords. Violent riots. Military called out. Character

of Lord George Gordon. Mann's presents to Walpole. More

riots. Attack on, and destruction of, Lord Mansfield's house.

Camp of ten thousand men in Hyde Park

June 14. The riots. Damage of property. Lord George Gordon

in the Tower. Traitorous character of the Scotch nation. Tran-

quillity restored. (June 16.)-Surrender of Charlestown to Sir

H. Clinton. Reconciliation of the King with his brothers.

Wilkes's repulse of the rioters at the Bank of England. Re-

flections on the late disturbances

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