The Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume IV | Page 5

of his forgeries--182
135. To the Rev. William Mason.-Visit from Dr. Robertson. The
Doctor's contemplated "History of King William." Macpherson's and
Sir John Dalrymple's scandals--184
136. To the Rev. Mr. Cole, June 3.-Patriots and politics. Dr. Franklin.
Lord Chatham's interment. His merits and demerits. Mr. Tyrwhit.
Chatterton's forgeries--186
137. To the same, June 10.-His political creed, and opinion of parties
and political men. Life of Mr. Baker. Rowley and Chatterton. Mat.
Prior. Mr. Hollis. Mrs. Macauley--187
138. To the Countess of Ailesbury, June 25.--Mr. Conway's
governorship. Cuckoos and Nightingales. Robbery of Mrs. Clive-- 189
139. To the Hon. H. S. Conway, July 8.-Suggesting the propriety of
pacification with America. Conduct of the Opposition. French
neutrality. Partition of Poland--189
140. To the Rev. Mr. Cole, July 12.-Projected Life of Mr. Baker. Dr.
Kippis's "Biographia Britannica." Addison's character of Lord Somers.
Whitgift and Abbot. Archbishop Markham. Calvin and Wesley. Popery
and Presbyterianism. Churches and convents--191
141. To the Hon. H. S. Conway, July 18.-Sailing of the Brest fleet.
Political prospects--192
142. To the Rev. Mr. Cole, July 24.-Answer to the attack upon him
prefixed to Chatterton's works. Gray's tomb, and Mason's epitaph--193
143. To the same, Aug. 15.-Rowley's pretended poems. Walpole's
defence. Bishop Walpole'-s tomb. Baker's Life--194
144. To the Hon. H. S. Conway, Aug, 21.-Recollections of Sussex.
Arundel Castle,. Tombs of the Fitzalans. Knowle and Penshurst.

Summer Hill. Leeds Castle. Goldsmiths' Company. Aquatic
adventure--195
145. To the Rev. Mr. Cole, Aug. 22.-Chatterton. Attacks on Walpole in
the Critical Review. Lord Hardwicke and the Carleton Papers. Literary
squabbles. The "Old English Baron." Lady Craven's "Sleep Walker." A
literary adventure--196
146. To the same, Sept. 1.-Attack on him in the Critical Review. Cabal
in the Antiquarian Society. Their Saxon and Danish discoveries, and
Roman remains. Value of Mr. Cole's collections,. Visit from Dr.
Kippis--198
147. To the same, Sept. 18.-"Biographia Britannica." Life of the first
Lord Barrington. Anecdote of the present peer--200
148. To the same, Oct. 14.-Defence of Sir Robert Walpole against a
charge of instigating George the Second to destroy the will of his father.
Lord Chesterfield--202
149. To the Hon. H. S. Conway, Oct. 23.-Account of his pursuits--201
150. To the Rev. Mr. Cole, Oct. 26.-Completion of his Life of Mr.
Baker--204
151. To the same, Nov. 4.-Attack of the gout. Character of Mr.
Baker--205
152. To Lady Browne. Nov. 5.-Reflections on the state of' his health.
Lady Blandford's obstinacy--[N.] 206
153. To the same, Dec. 18.-Admiral Keppel's trial. Lord Bute. Lord
George Germaine. Lady Holderness, Lord and Lady Carmarthen--[N.]
207
154. To the Earl of Buchan, Dec. 24.-Reply to inquiries after certain
portraits--[N.) 209
155. To Edward Gibbon, Esq.-On the attacks upon his History of the

Decline and Fall--[N.] 210

1779.
156. To the Rev. Mr. Cole, Jan. 3.-Life of Mr. Baker. Damage done by
the great tempest on New-year's morning. Death of Bishop Kidder.
Tamworth Castle. Lord Ferrers's passion for ancestry--211
157. To the Hon. H. S. Conway, Jan. 9.-Mrs. Miller's follies at
Batbeaston. Ennui. His recent illness. Prospects of old age. Admiral
Keppel's trial. Grecian Republics. Anecdote of Sir Robert Walpole.
Character of Sir William Meredith--212
158. To the Rev. Mr. Cole, Jan. 15.-Life of Mr. Baker. Pamphlet
respecting Chatterton--213
159. To the same, Jan. 28.-Reasons for not printing his pamphlet
concerning Chatterton. His Hieroglyphic Tales--214
160. To the same, Feb. 4.-Answer to Mr. Cole's objections to his Life
of Baker--215
161. To the same, Feb. 18.-His opinion of Hasted's history of Kent.
Lord Ferrers and Tamworth Castle--215
162. To Sir David Dalrymple, March 12.-Thanks for his "Annals."
Portrait of Duns Scotus--[N.] 216
163. To the Rev. Mr. Cole, March 28.-Swinburne's Travels in Spain.
The Alhambra. Character of Moses. Cumberland's Masque of
"Calypso." Design of a chimney-piece, by Holbein--216
164. To Edward Gibbon, Esq.-Congratulations on his ,Vindication" of
his "History"--[N.] 218
165. To the Rev. Mr. Cole, April 12.-St. Peter's portrait. Richard the
Third. Truth and Falsehood. Murder of Miss Ray by Mr. Hackman.

Shades of madness. Solace in books and past ages-- 218
166. To the same, April 20.-Plates after designs by Rubens--219
167. To the same, April 23.-Sale of the pictures at Houghton-- 220
168. To Mrs. Abington.-Regrets at not being able to accept an
invitation--(N.) 220
169. To the Rev. Mr. Cole, May 21.-History of the Abbey of Bec.
Keate's "Sketches from Nature." Church of Reculver. Person of Richard
the Third--221
170. To the Hon. H. S. Conway, May 22.-Attack on Jersey. War in
America. Masquerades. Festino at Almack's. Lord Bristol's wonderful
calf--221
171. To the Rev. Mr. Cole, June 2.-State of his health. Strictures on a
volume of the ArchEeologia. Pictures at Houghton--222
172. To the Rev. Dr. Lort, June 4.-Painted shutters from the altar of St.
Edmund's Bury--224
173. To the Hon. H. S. Conway, June 5.-Disturbances in Ireland.
Spanish declaration of war. Treatment