Lord Montfort’s suicide--Mrs. Pococke--Lord Baltimore’s house--Mr. Bower’s cottage--Torriano’s marriage--Hatchlands--Sheep Leas--Painshill--Reading--Sarah Scott’s daily life--The calm, meek Miss Pococke--The Garrett Wellesleys--Fears of French invasion--Garrick at Drury Lane--Earthquake at Lisbon--Death of West--Wortley Montagu’s pious pamphlet--Captain Robert Robinson’s death--Byng--David Hume--Morris Robinson’s marriage--The eccentric Matthew Robinson--Pitt buys Hayes house--Viscount Pitt’s birth--Lyttelton a peer--The famous _bas bleu_ assemblies--Emin--Windsor election riot--Stillingfleet--Culham Court--George Stevens--Battle of Hastenbeck--The Severn and Wye--Elizabeth Wilmot--Battle of Kollin--A description of Emin--“Is got pure well”--The Mordaunt Expedition--Dr. Monsey--Admiral and Mrs. Boscawen--Battle of Rosbach 67–122 CHAPTER III. The Delany trial--Death of Dr. Clayton--Emin applies to Pitt--The attack on St. Malo--Death and will of John Rogers--The Garricks--Letters to Mrs. Elizabeth Carter (_passim_)--Lyttelton and Monsey--The Louisburg blockade--Correspondence with Lyttelton (_passim_)--Molly West’s marriage--Newcastle--Denton Hall--Lumley Castle--Hampton Court, Herefordshire--Battle of Zorndorff--Emin on Frederick the Great--The _eau de luce_ disaster--Mrs. Garrick--Current price of food--Athenian Stuart--Viper broth--“Brusher” Mills the snake-catcher--Illness of George II.--Young Mr. Pitt--The Session opened--Monsey’s doggerel--Admiral Boscawen thanked by Parliament--Lady Emily Butler--Helvetius’ _De l’Esprit_--Attempted assassination of King of Portugal--Lyttelton’s _History of Henry II._--Burke’s _Sublime and Beautiful_--Dr. Johnson--Emin off to Armenia--Calves Pluck water--Harleyford--Inverary Castle--Alnwick--York--Glamis Castle--Scotch characteristics--Burke’s appeal for Madrid Consulship--Quebec taken--Bonus, the picture-cleaner--The Laurence Sternes 123–177 CHAPTER IV.