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nie WALPOLIANAA; 
OR BONS-MOTS, APOPHTHEGMS, OBSERVATIONS ON. LIFE AND LITERA- 
TURE, WITH EXTRACTS FROM 
ORIGINAL LETTERS, OF THE LATE 
HORACE WALPOLE, EARL OF ORFORD. 
NUMBERLI. 

** This Article is communicated by a Literary Gentleman, for many years in habits of intimacy 
with Mr. WALPOLE. 
It is partly drawn up from a colleGtion of Bons-Mots, Gc. in his own 
band-qwriting ; partly from Anecdotes written dozun after long Couverfations with him, in which 
be would, from four o’Clock in the Afternoon, till two in the Morning, difplay thofe treafures of 
Anecdotes, with which bis Rank, Wit, and Opportunities, bad replenifhed bis Memory, and 
partly from Original Letters to the Compiler, on jubjects of Tafte and Literature. 

Mr. Gray, the poet, has often obferved to me, that, if any man were to form a book of 
what he had feen and heard himfelf, it muft, in whatever hands, prove a moft ufeful ana 
entertaining one. 
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I, BERNIS AND FLEURY. 
ARDINAL de Bernis, when only 
an Abbé, folicited Cardinal Fleury, 
then four fcore, for fome preferment. 
Fleury told him fairly, he fhould never 
have any thing in his time: Bernis re- 
plied, ‘* Moxfeigneur 7 attendrai *.”’ 
iI. COUNTESS OF COVENTRY. 
Towards the clofe of the reign of 
George the Second, the beautiful coun- 
tefs of Coventry talking to him on fhows, 
and thinking only of the figure fhe her- 
felt fhould make ina proceffion, told him, 
the fight the wifhed moit to fee was a co- 
ronation, 
il. THE CLERICAL GOWN. 
Mr. Suckling, a clergyman of Nor- 
folk, having a quarrel with a neighbour- 
ing gentleman, who infulted him, and at 
lait told him, ‘* Doctor, your gown is 
your protection ;”’ replied, ‘* it may be 
mine, but it fhal] not be your’s ;”” pulled 
it off, and thrafhed the agercflor. 
IV. PATRIOTISM OF WILKES. 
Depend upon it, my dear Sir, that 
Wilkes was in the pay of France, during 
the Wilkes and liberty days. Calling 
one day on the French minifter, I ob- 
ferved a book on his table, with Wilkes’s 
mame in the firit leaf. This led to a con- 
verfation, which convinced me. Other 
circumftances, too long and minute to be 
repeated, ftrengthened, if neceffary, that 
conviction. I am as {ure of it, as of any 
faét I know. 
Wilkes at firft cringed to Lord Bute. 
The _embafly to Conftantinople was the 
object of his ambition. It was refufed— 
and you know what followed. ~ 

* My Lord, iF fhall war. 
Walpole. 
V. BUTE’S MINISTRY. : 
Lord Bute was my {chool-fellow. He 
was a man of tafte and {cience, and I de 
believe his intentions were good. He 
withed to blend and unite all parties, 
The tories were willing to come in for a 
Joare ofpower, after having been fo long 
excluded—but the whigs were not willing 
to grant that fhare. Power is an intoxi- 
cating draught; the morea man has, the 
more he defires. 
VI. LADY WORTLEY MONTAGUE, 
The letters of Lady Wortley Mon- 
tague are genuine. I have feen the ori- 
ginals, among which are fome far fupe- 
rior to thofe in print. But fome of them 
were very immodeft. When the publi- 
cation was -about to take place, Lord 
Bute, who had married her daughter, 
fent for the editor, and offered one hun- 
dred pounds to fupprefs them. The man, 
‘took the money, promifed—and pub- 
lifhed. 
Lady Wortley Montague was a play- 
fellow of mine when both were children, 
She was always a dirty little thing. This 
habit continued with her. When at Flo- 
rence, the Grand Duke gave her apart 
ments in his palace. One room fuficed 
for every thing. When fhe went away, 
the {tench was fo ftrong, that they were 
obliged to fumigate the chamber with vi- 
negar for a week. , 
Pope gave her the Homer he had ufed 
in tranflating. [ have got it: it is a {mali 
edition by Wetitein. Here it is. She 
wrote that little poem in the blank leaves, 
VII. CONJUGAL AFFECTION. 
A French gentleman, bejng married 
a fecond time, was often lamenting his 
firit wife, before his fecond, who one day ~ 
faid to him, ‘* Monfeur, je vous cijure 
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