340 THE IW01XNTXGS OF CAXALS PARTY. 



firm, the match was broken off. From that time for- 

 ward lie is said never to have addressed another woman 

 in the language of gallantry. 1 The Duchess of Hamilton, 

 however, did not remain long a widow. In the course 

 of a few months she was engaged to, and afterwards 

 married, John Campbell, subsequently Duke of Argyll. 

 Horace Walpole, writing of the affair to Marshal Con- 

 way, January 28th, 1759, says : "You and M. de Kareil 

 do not exchange prisoners with half as much alacrity 

 as Jack Campbell and the Duchess of Hamilton have 

 exchanged hearts. . . . It is the prettiest match in 

 the world since yours, and everybody likes it but the 

 Duke of Bridgewater and Lord Conway. What an 

 extraordinary fate is attached to these two women ! 

 Who could have believed that a Gunning would unite 

 the two great houses of Campbell and Hamilton ? For 

 my part, I expect to see my Lady Coventry Queen of 

 Prussia. I would not venture to marry either of them 

 these thirty years, for fear of being shuffled out of the 

 world prematurely to make room for the rest of their 

 adventures." 



The Duke of Bridgewater, like a wise man, seems to 

 have taken refuge from his disappointment in active and 

 useful occupation. Instead of retiring to his beautiful 

 seat at Ashridge, we find him straightway proceeding 

 to his estate at Worsley, on the borders of Chat Moss, 

 in Lancashire, and conferring with John Gilbert, his 

 land-steward, as to the practicability of cutting a canal 

 by which the coals found upon his Worsley estate might 

 be readily conveyed to market at Manchester. 



Manchester and Liverpool at that time were improving 

 towns, gradually rising in importance and increasing in 

 population. The former place had long been noted for 



Chalmers, in his 'Biographical j the late Earl of Hllcsmere, continued 



Dictionary,' vol. xiii., 94, ^iv<s an- 

 other account of the rumoured CM use 

 of the Duke's subsequent antipathy to 

 women; but the above statement of 



as it is by certain passages in \Val- 

 1 mle's Letters, is more likely to be the 



correct one. 



