4798.) 
court to Lady Suffolk, a  circumftance 
which greatly recommended him to Queen 
Caroline. 
ing Earl of Suffolk, by his brother’s 
death, he wifhed to refcue his wite, but 
dared not attempt it in the verge of the 
court. Once he-formed the plan to carry 
her off, as fhe went to Hampton-court. 
palace, but the Duke of Argyle, and his 
brother, Lord Ilay, carried her out in a 
poft-chaife, at eight o’clock in the morn- 
ing. 
"The tory party wifhing to try if Lady 
Suffolk had any intereft, prevailed on her 
to requeft that Lord Bathurit fhould be 
inade an earl. It was refuled, and the 
party loft all hopes. 
CIII. MISS BALLENDEN. 
The prince, afterwards George II. was 
defperately in love with Mifs Ballenden, 
who hated him. Mrs. Howard went be- 
tween them, but not fucceeding, the prince 
was forced to content himfelf with the 
mediatrix, who was not pretty, but very 
agreeable. 
Mif{s Ballenden was exquifitely beauti- 
ful, and as great an ornament to the court 
of George I. as her countrywoman, Mifs 
Stuart, had been to that of Charles II. 
She was the daughter of Lord Balleaden, 
and married Colonel Campbell, afterwards 
Duke of Argyle. 
After her marriage, her former royal 
lover, piqued by her difdain, feldom tailed 
to ftep up to her at court, and fay fuch cruel 
things that fhe would colour, and be moft 
unealy. Ungenerous, certainly, as he 
ought rather to have applauded Ler vir- 
tue. Henry IV. of France, you know, 
praifed the lady who anfwesed him, that 
the only path to her chamber lay through 
the church. 
Civ. SIR ROBERT WALPOLE. 
On the death of George I. my father 
killed two horfes,.in carrying the tidings 
to his fucceflor: and, kneeling down, | 
afked who fhould compote his majefty’s 
fpeech? The king told him to go to Sir 
Spencer Compton. That gentleman, un- 
uled to public buiinels, was forced to 
fend to Sir Robert, to requeft his affift- 
ance in the compofition. The queen upon 
this afked the king if it were not better 
to employ his father’s minifter, who 
could manace his bufinefs without the 
help of another? My father was inftantly 
re-appointed, 
Somebody had told the princefs, after- 
wards Queen Caroline, that Sir Robert 
Walpole had called her a fat bitch. It 
Montuty Mac. Ne, Xxxvui, 
Walpoliana, Now Vil. 
Upon Mr. Howard’s becom- . 
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was not true, But upon fettling her 
jointure by parliament, when fhe was 
Princefs of Wales, and 50,000]. bein 
propoled, Sir Robert moved and obtained 
100,000]. The.princefs, in great good- 
humour, fent him word that the fat bitch 
had forgiven him. 
CV. FREDERIC PRINCE OF WALES, 
It feems fatal to the Houfe of Bruns- 
wick to difplay a conftant fucceffion of 
quarrels between father and fon. George 
II. had quarrelled with his father. Fre- 
deric, Prince of Wales, was a worthlefs 
fon. ‘The cant of liberty, affumed by 
his partifans, was truly ludicrous, as 
much fo as the prince’s pretended tafte for 
poetry and the arts. I recolleét none of 
his anceftors eminent in arms: and that 
any of the family fhould have a real tafte 
for letters, or. the arts, would be little 
fhort of a miracle. 
CVI. CORRUPTION. 
In my youth I thought of writing 4 
fatire on mankind, but now in my age I 
think I fhould write an apology for them, 
Several worthy men, whom I know, fall 
into fuch unexpeéted fituations, that) to 
me, who know thefe fituations, their con- 
duét is matter of compaffion and not of 
blame. ? 
Sir Robert Walpole ufed to fay .that 
it was fortunate fo few men could be 
prime-minifters, as it was beft that few 
fhould thoroughly know the fhocking 
wickedne{s of mankind. 
I never heard him fay that all men 
have their-prices; and I believe no fuch 
expreffion ever came from his mouth, 
CVII. MAXIM OF GOVERNMENT. 
Sir Robert’s grand maxim of govern- 
ment was Quieta ne movete: a maxim 
quite oppofite to thofe of our days. 
CVIII. WALPOLE AND MASON. 
T fhall tell you a great fecret, the caufe 
of my late difference with Mr. Mafon. 
[1785.] Lord H. Mafon and I, ufed 
often ta meet together, as we-cordially 
agreed in our fentiments of the public 
meafures purfued during this reign. But 
when the India bill of Fox came to be 
agitated, Mafon took a decided part 
againft it; nay wrote to me that, upon 
this oceafion, every one ought to affilt the 
king; and warmly recommended jt to me 
to ufe my influence in that caufe. j 
You may imagine I was a little fur 
prized at this new ttyle of my old friend, 
and the impertinence of giving his advice 
unafked. { returned a ligat ironical an- 
{wwer. As Maton had, in a termon preached 
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