CHAPTER XX 



Gossip again marries Lord March — The lady — Verses on the anticipated 

 marriage— Anecdote of Lord March at York races — His lordship's 

 Turf records for the years 1773-1776— Remarks — Death of Catharine, 

 Duchess of Queensberry — Dick Goodison, alias ' Helliire Dick,' and 

 Lord March — A continuance of the March-Selwyn correspondence. 



About the period now under notice (1773), gossip 

 again added another wedding to the matrimonial hst. 

 The lady Lord March was supposed this time to 

 lead to the altar was the daughter of Lady Harring- 

 ton, a family he often alludes to in his correspondence. 

 This choice of the busybodies fell on her eldest 

 daughter ^ — Lady Henrietta Stanhope. But what- 

 ever may have led to the report, it is certain that 

 no overtures were made by Lord March for the 

 lady's hand ; unless his visits to the family were 

 thought to be rather in the interest of Cupid than 

 friendship. The report, however, did not trouble 

 March, who did not care a jot how often the world 

 married him, as long as he himself was not present at 

 the ceremony. 



^ Afterwards Lady Foley. 



