The Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume II | Page 2

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 S��vign��
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 S��vign��
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'Orl��ans--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 pretty well cured by her journey. She is past forty, and does not appear ever to have been handsome, but is one of the most agreeable and sensible women I ever saw; yet I must tell you a trait of her that will not prove my assertion. Lady Holland asked her how she liked Strawberry Hill? She owned that she did not approve of it, and that it was not digne de la solidit�� Angloise. It made me laugh for a quarter of an hour. They allot us a character we have not, and then draw consequences from that idea, which would be absurd, even if the idea were just. One must not build a Gothic house because the nation is solide. Perhaps, as everything