Chapter IV

Correspondence with Lyttelton (_passim_)--Lord Bath--The
Lisbon Embassy--_Dialogues of the Dead_--Lord
Chesterfield--Earl Ferrers executed--William Robinson’s
marriage--Tunbridge Wells--The Stanley family--Ned, the
groom--Lord Bath’s character--Lord Mansfield--“Montagu’s
main”--Sophocles--Hagley House rebuilt--Dr. Monsey’s
ways--Allan Ramsay, portrait painter--Letter to Duchess
of Portland--Macpherson’s _Highland Poems_--Bishop
Sherlock’s letter--Dr. Young--George Bowes’ funeral--Miss
Bowes--Greek Plays and Shakespeare--Green tea and
snuff--Death of George II.--George III. king--George
II.’s will--Floods at Newark--A great lady’s avarice--The
King’s first speech--Attendance at Court--A fashionable
dentist--A languid campaign--Bishop Sherlock’s letter
to the King--_Billets doux_--Chesterfield’s _bon
mot_--An impetuous lover of fourscore--Monsey’s fresh
doggerel--George Colman the elder 178–227