The Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume I

Letters of Horace Walpole, by
Horace Walpole

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LETTERS
OF

HORACE WALPOLE
SELECTED AND EDITED BY
CHARLES DUKE YONGE, M.A.
AUTHOR OF "THE HISTORY OF FRANCE UNDER THE
BOURBONS," "A LIFE OF MARIE ANTOINETTE," ETC., ETC.
WITH PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
VOLUME I
London
T. FISHER UNWIN
PATERNOSTER SQUARE
NEW YORK: G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS
MDCCCXC

CONTENTS.
1736-1764.
1. TO MONTAGU, May 2, 1736.--Marriage of the Princess of
Wales--Very lively
2. TO THE SAME, May 6, 1736.--Fondness for Old
Stories--Reminiscences of Eton, etc.
3. TO THE SAME, March 20, 1737.--Wish to Travel--Superiority of
French Manners to English in their manner to Ladies
4. TO WEST, April 21, 1739.--Theatres at Paris--St. Denis--Fondness
of the French for Show, and for Gambling--Singular Signs--The Army

the only Profession for Men of Gentle Birth--Splendour of the Public
Buildings
5. TO THE SAME, 1739.--Magnificence of Versailles--The Chartreux
Relics
6. TO THE SAME, February 27, 1740.--The Carnival--The Florentines
Civil, Good-natured, and Fond of the English--A Curious Challenge
7. TO THE SAME, June 14, 1740.--Herculaneum--Search should be
made for other Submerged Cities--Quotations from Statius
8. TO CONWAY, July 5, 1740.--Danger of Malaria--Roman Catholic
Relics--"Admiral Hosier's Ghost"--Contest for the Popedom
9. TO THE SAME, July 9, 1740
10. TO WEST, Oct. 2, 1740.--A Florentine Wedding--Addison's
Descriptions are Borrowed from Books--A Song of Bondelmonti's,
with a Latin Version by Gray, and an English One by the Writer
11. TO MANN, Jan. 22, 1742.--Debate on Pulteney's Motion for a
Committee on Papers Relating to the War--Speeches of Pulteney, Pitt,
Sir R. Walpole, Sir W. George, etc.--Smallness of the Ministerial
Majority
12. TO THE SAME, May 26, 1742.--Ranelagh Gardens
Opened--Garrick, "A Wine-merchant turned Player"--Defeat of the
Indemnity Bill
13. TO THE SAME, Dec. 9, 1742.--Debate on Disbanding the
Hanoverian Troops--First Speech of Murray (afterwards Earl of
Mansfield)--Bon Mot of Lord Chesterfield
14. TO THE SAME, Feb. 24, 1743.--King Theodore--Handel
Introduces Oratorios
15. TO THE SAME, July 4, 1743.--Battle of Dettingen--Death of Lord
Wilmington

16. TO THE SAME, Sept. 7, 1743.--French Actors at Clifden--A new
Roman Catholic Miracle--Lady Mary Wortley
17. TO THE SAME, March 29, 1745.--Death of his Father--Matthews
and Lestock in the Mediterranean--Thomson's "Tancred and
Sigismunda"--Akenside's Odes--Conundrums in Fashion
18. TO THE SAME, May 11, 1745.--Battle of Fontenoy--The Ballad of
the Prince of Wales
19. TO MONTAGU, August 1, 1745.--M. De Grignan--Livy's
Patavinity--The Maréchal De Belleisle--Whiston Prophecies the
Destruction of the World--The Duke of Newcastle
20. TO MANN, Sept. 6, 1745.--Invasion of Scotland by the Young
Pretender--Forces are said to be Preparing in France to join him
21. TO THE SAME, Sept. 20, 1745.--This and the following Letters
give a Lively Account of the Progress of the Rebellion till the Retreat
from Derby, after which no particular interest attaches to it
22. TO THE SAME, Sept. 27, 1745.--Defeat of Cope
23. TO THE SAME, Oct. 21, 1745.--General Wade is Marching to
Scotland--Violent Proclamation of the Pretender
24. TO THE SAME, Nov. 22, 1745.--Gallant Resistance of
Carlisle--Mr. Pitt attacks the Ministry
25. TO THE SAME, Dec. 9, 1745.--The Rebel Army has Retreated
from Derby--Expectation of a French Invasion
26. TO THE SAME, April 25, 1746.--Battle of Culloden
27. TO THE SAME, Aug. 1, 1746.--Trial of the Rebel Lords Balmerino
and Kilmarnock
28. TO THE SAME, Oct. 14, 1746.--The Battle of Rancoux

29. TO CONWAY, Oct. 24, 1746.--On Conway's Verses--No
Scotchman is capable of such Delicacy of Thought, though a
Scotchwoman may be--Akenside's, Armstrong's, and Glover's Poems
30. TO THE SAME, June 8, 1747.--He has bought Strawberry Hill
31. TO THE SAME, Aug. 29, 1748.--His Mode of
Life--Planting--Prophecies of New Methods and New Discoveries in a
Future Generation
32. TO MANN, May 3, 1749.--Rejoicings for the Peace--Masquerade
at Ranelagh--Meeting of the Prince's Party and the
Jacobites--Prevalence of Drinking and Gambling--Whitefield
33. TO THE SAME, March 11, 1750.--Earthquake in London--General
Panic--Marriage of Casimir, King of Poland
34. TO THE SAME, April 2, 1750.--General Panic--Sherlock's Pastoral
Letter--Predictions of more Earthquakes--A General Flight from
London--Epigrams by Chute and Walpole himself--French Translation
of Milton
35. TO THE SAME, April 1, 1751.--Death of Walpole's Brother, and of
the Prince of Wales--Speech of the young Prince--Singular Sermon on
His Death
36. TO THE SAME, June 18, 1751.--Changes in the Ministry and
Household--The Miss Gunnings--Extravagance in London--Lord
Harcourt, Governor of