RACLVG LADIES, AND A FOUNDER OF THE JOCKEY CLl'B. 



between 1720 and 1750. In 1733, Lord Chesterfield, not quite forty, a man of fashion 

 and a thorough gambler, was butting his clumsy frame and Polyphemus head against 

 the stronger policies of Walpole. He failed, and went on fighting. Hut a far more 

 formidable opponent was returned as Member of Parliament lor Old Sarum in 1/36. 

 William Pitt's maiden speech was another attack on Walpole. Klsewhere there 

 had been premonitory symptoms of coming trouble. In 1733, the petition of the 

 Colony of Massachusetts Bay was rejected. In 1737 Lord Godolphin was present 

 at the birth of a girl in St. James's Palace. The Prince of Wales had hurried his wife 

 to London from Hampton Court 

 that same day ; and the breach with 

 his father became serious. Queen 

 Caroline's deathbed, as Lord Her- 

 vey describes it, is a horror upon 

 which we need not linger. The 

 King's ejaculation at her sugges- 

 tion of a second wife has often 

 been quoted " Non, j'aurai des 

 tnaitresses "-but her reply is infi- 

 nitely more terrible. " Ah ! mon 

 Dieu ! cela n'empeche pas ! " The 

 King wept bitterly, and went off to 

 Madame de Walmodcn to tell her 

 that no woman he ever met was 

 worthy to buckle the late Queen's 

 shoes. Three years afterwards 

 came the war with Spain, which 

 Walpole had struggled so long to avert. It was not vitally important, perhaps ; 

 but bad enough ; and when the clever old Norfolk squire died in Arlington 

 Street, in 1745, his loss was felt all through the country. That was the year 

 of Culloden, and of the brutal measures thought necessary by that Duke of 

 Cumberland who was a constant supporter of the Turf in the second half of the 

 eighteenth century. Death seemed particularly busy among the notabilities just 

 then. Congreve and Steele of course had vanished long ago. In 1751 died 

 " Fred," the Prince of Wales, who in his efforts after popularity some years 

 previously had begged the services of Henry Fox, father of that C. J. Fox who 



Augustus Henry, Third Duke of Graf tun. 



By Batloni. 



