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and had found them so ' hard ' that they would be 

 sure to exact the penalty to the uttermost farthing) ; 

 Lord Coventry (who was George William, sixth Earl, 

 husband of Maria Gunning, one of the two historically 

 beautiful sisters) ; Lord Grenville (who was Prime 

 Minister in 1806) ; Lord Guildford (second Earl, 

 better known as the humorous Minister, Lord North, 

 who had the misfortune to go blind in his latter days, 

 but was so irrepressibly cheerful and witty under his 

 affliction as to remark that he and his inveterate 

 enemy, Col. Barre, who, singularly enough, had met 

 with the same misfortune, would be ' very glad to see 

 one another ') ; Lord Harrington (who served with 

 distinction in the American War, and was an uncle of 

 the ' Cripplegate ' and 'Newgate ' Earls of Barrymore, 

 for the sixth Earl of Barrymore married Amelia Stan- 

 hope, daughter of the Earl of Harrington, father, 

 apparently, of the Earl here in question) ; Lord 

 Hawkesbury (Charles Jenkinson, afterwards Earl of 

 Liverpool, Home Secretary under Pitt) ; Lord Kenyon 

 (Lord Chief Justice) ; Lord Lansdowne (the Marquess 

 of Lansdowne, better known as Lord Shelburne, pat- 

 ron of learning, science, and sport) ; Lord Leicester, 

 (not a Coke, but George Townshend, Master of the 

 Mint, who was created Earl of the County of Leicester, 

 May 18, 1784, succeeded his father as Marquess 

 Townshend in 1807, and died 1811) ; Lord Thurlow 

 (the ' Jupiter Tonans ' Lord Chancellor, of swearing 

 notoriety) ; Lord John Townshend (brother of Lord 



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