The Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume II | Page 2

Oct. 6, 1774.--Discontent in America--Mr.
Grenville's Act for the Trial of Election Petitions--Highway Robberies
124. TO THE SAME, Oct. 22, 1774.--The Pope's Death--Wilkes is
returned for Middlesex--A Quaker at Versailles
125. TO THE COUNTESS OF AILESBURY, Nov. 7, 1774.--Burke's
Election at Bristol--Resemblance of one House of Commons to
Another--Comfort of Old Age
126. TO MANN, Nov. 24, 1774.--Death of Lord Clive--Restoration of
the French Parliament--Prediction of Great Men to arise in
America--The King's Speech
127. TO CONWAY AND LADY AYLESBURY, Jan. 15, 1775.--Riots
at Boston--A Literary Coterie at Bath-Easton
128. TO GEM, April 4, 1776.--Opposition of the French Parliaments to
Turgot's Measures
129. TO CONWAY, June 20, 1776.--His Decorations at
"Strawberry"--His Estimate of himself, and his Admiration of Conway
130. TO MANN, Dec. 1, 1776.--Anglomanie in Paris--Horse-Racing
131. TO COLE, June 19, 1777.--Ossian--Chatterton
132. TO MANN, Oct. 26, 1777.--Affairs in America--The Czarina and
the Emperor of China
133. TO THE SAME, May 31, 1778.--Death of Lord
Chatham--Thurlow becomes Lord Chancellor

134. TO COLE, June 3, 1778.--Exultation of France at our Disasters in
America--Franklin--Necker--Chatterton
135. TO MANN, July 7, 1778.--Admiral Keppel's Success--Threats of
Invasion--Funeral of Lord Chatham
136. TO CONWAY, July 8, 1778.--Suggestion of Negotiations with
France--Partition of Poland
137. TO MANN, Oct. 8, 1778.--Unsuccessful Cruise of
Keppel--Character of Lord Chatham
138. TO THE SAME, March 22, 1779.--Capture of
Pondicherry--Changes in the Ministry--La Fayette in America
139. TO THE SAME, July 7, 1779.--Divisions in the
Ministry--Character of the Italians and of the French
140. TO THE SAME, Sept. 16, 1779.--Eruption of Vesuvius--Death of
Lord Temple
141. TO THE SAME, Jan. 13, 1780.--Chances of War with
Holland--His Father's Policy--Pope--Character of Bolingbroke
142. TO THE SAME, Feb. 6, 1780.--Political Excitement--Lord G.
Gordon--Extraordinary Gambling Affairs in India
143. TO THE SAME, March 3, 1780.--Rodney's Victory--Walpole
inclines to Withdraw from Amusements
144. TO THE SAME, June 5, 1780.--The Gordon Riots
145. TO DALRYMPLE, Dec. 11, 1780.--Hogarth--Colonel
Charteris--Archbishop Blackburne--Jervas--Richardson's Poetry
146. TO MANN, Dec. 31, 1780.--The Prince of Wales--Hurricane at
Barbadoes--A "Voice from St. Helena"
147. TO THE SAME, Sept. 7, 1781.--Naval Movements--Siege of

Gibraltar--Female Fashions
148. TO THE SAME, Nov. 29, 1781.--Capitulation of Lord
Cornwallis--Pitt and Fox
149. TO COLE, April 13, 1782.--The Language proper for Inscriptions
in England--Fall of Lord North's Ministry--Bryant
150. TO MANN, Sept. 8, 1782.--Highwaymen and Footpads
151. TO THE SAME, Dec. 2, 1783.--Fox's India Bill--Balloons
152. TO CONWAY, Oct. 15, 1784.--Balloons
153. TO PINKERTON, June 22, 1785.--His Letters on
Literature--Disadvantage of Modern Writers--Comparison of Lady
Mary Wortley with Madame de Sévigné
154. TO THE SAME, June 26, 1785.--Criticism on various Authors:
Greek, Latin, French, and English--Humour of Addison, and of
Fielding--Waller--Milton--Boileau's "Lutrin"--"The Rape of the
Lock"--Madame de Sévigné
155. TO MANN, Aug. 26, 1785.--Ministerial Difficulties--The Affair
of the Necklace in Paris--Fluctuating Unpopularity of
Statesmen--Fallacies of History
156. TO THE SAME, Oct. 4, 1785.--Brevity of Modern
Addresses--The old Duchess of Marlborough
157. TO THE SAME, Oct. 30, 1785.--Lady Craven--Madame
Piozzi--"The Rolliad"--Herschel's Astronomical Discovery
158. TO MISS MORE, Oct. 14, 1787.--Mrs. Yearsley--Madame
Piozzi--Gibbon--"Le Mariage de Figaro"
159. TO THE SAME, July 12, 1788.--Gentlemen Writers--His own
Reasons for Writing when Young--Voltaire--"Evelina"--Miss
Seward--Hayley

160. TO MANN, Feb. 12, 1789.--Divisions in the Royal Family--The
Regency--The Irish Parliament
161. TO MISS BERRY, June 30, 1789.--"The Arabian Nights"--The
Aeneid--Boccalini--Orpheus and Eurydice
162. TO CONWAY, July 15, 1789.--Dismissal of Necker--Baron de
Breteuil--The Duc D'Orléans--Mirabeau
163. TO THE SAME, July 1, 1790.--Bruce's "Travels"--Violence of the
French Jacobins--Necker
164. TO MISS BERRYS, June 8, 1791.--The Prince of Wales--Growth
of London and other Towns
165. TO THE SAME, Aug. 23, 1791.--Sir W. and Lady Hamilton--A
Boat-race--The Margravine of Anspach
166. TO THE SAME, Oct. 15, 1793.--Arrest of the Duchesse de
Biron--The Queen of France--Pythagoras
167. TO CONWAY, July 2, 1795.--Expectations of a Visit to
Strawberry by the Queen
168. TO THE SAME, July 7, 1795.--Report of the Visit

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
I. LADY MARY WORTLEY-MONTAGU
II. THOMAS GRAY, THE POET
Photographed from a drawing in the National Portrait Gallery, made by
JAMES BASIRE, the engraver, from a sketch from life by Gray's
friend, the Rev. WILLIAM MASON.
III. STRAWBERRY HILL, FROM THE NORTH-WEST

IV. SIR ROBERT WALPOLE
From a mezzotint by J. SIMON, after a picture by Sir GODFREY
KNELLER.
V. VIEW OF GARDEN, STRAWBERRY HILL, FROM THE GREAT
BED-CHAMBER
VI. REPRODUCTIONS OF HANDWRITING OF THOMAS GRAY
AND HORACE WALPOLE

A SELECTION
FROM THE
LETTERS OF HORACE WALPOLE.
VOLUME II.
MADAME DE BOUFFLERS AT STRAWBERRY--THE FRENCH
OPINION OF THE ENGLISH CHARACTER--RICHARDSON'S
NOVELS--MADAME DE BEAUMONT.
TO SIR HORACE MANN.
ARLINGTON STREET, Dec. 20, 1764.
... My journey to Paris is fixed for some time in February, where I hear
I may expect to find Madame de Boufflers, Princess of Conti. Her
husband is just dead; and you know the House of Bourbon have an
alacrity at marrying their old mistresses. She was here last year, being
extremely infected with the Anglomanie, though I believe