[6] This is one contemporary account of it--adopted by Thackeray; but Wraxall (1st vol., pp. 384-385 American reprint, Lea & Blanchard) says that the Duke of Dorset was commissioned to carry the news; but some little time being required to make himself ready, the Duchess was sent in advance. She arrived at Kew (where the Prince was staying) just as that Prince had gone to bed, as was his wont, after dinner. The Princess undertook the announcement--though demurring at the duty, and anticipating a brutal reception for one who should disturb his after-dinner nap; he was in a huff and _did_ make the comment, noted in the text; but it was not (says Wraxall) to a messenger in jack-boots, but to the Princess of Wales herself. [7] Richardson: b. 1689; d. 1761. Various editions of his works. Known quite generally to buyers of cheap books in our day by an abbreviated issue of _Clarissa Harlowe_ (Routledge & Sons). [8] Henry Fielding: b. 1707; d. 1754. Editions of his works have been edited by Arthur Murphy, William Roscoe, and Leslie Stephen; (10 vols., 1882-1883.) Life by Sir Walter Scott in Ballantyne Library; more trustworthy one is that by Austin Dobson. [9] It is perhaps to be doubted if the bare-faced coarsenesses of Fielding (much as they are to be condemned) would provoke pruriency so much as the sentimental and sensuous languors of Richardson. [10] _History of Pendennis_, Household Ed., Boston: Chap. xxix. [11] It was in virtue of some altercations growing out of Fielding's plays that British censorship was established in 1737, and (perhaps) Fielding thereby diverted to the study of Law. [12] James Thomson, b. 1700; d. 1748. Various editions of his poems; a very elegant one, illustrated by the Etching Club, published 1842-62. [13] _The Jubilee of the Constitution_, a discourse delivered by request of the New York Historical Society, April 30, 1839, and repeated shortly after in the old "Ludlow" Church, (now "Dime Theatre"), in Church Street, New Haven. [14] Thomas Gray, b. 1716; d. 1771. See Gosse's recent biography for critical as well as sympathetic account of his life and writings. See also Mitford's edition of his works, with life, London, 1836. [15] Horace Walpole, b. 1717; d. 1785. The enumeration of his books, pamphlets, and of titles relating thereto fill a dozen columns of _Lowndes_. His letters give best measurement of the man. [16] It purported to be a translation from the Italian of Onuphrio Muralto. [17] Peter Cunningham Edition. London, 1857-1859. See also _Horace Walpole and His World_, by L. B. Seeley. 1884. [18] Rev. William Mason, b. 1725; d. 1797; author of _The English Garden_, published at intervals (its successive books) between 1772 and 1782. It has little merit--Walpole to the contrary. [19] _Wet Days at Edgewood_, p. 239.