CHAPTER 3. 1773-1777; 1779 AND 1780 POLITICS AND SOCIETY. Fox's debts--Lord Holland--News from London--Interviews with Fox--The Fire at Holland House--A Visit to Tunbridge--Provision for Mie Mie--County business and electioneering at Gloucester--Lotteries --Fox and Carlisle--Highway adventures--London Society--Newmarket intelligence--An evening in town--Charles Fox and America--Carlisle declines a court post--money from Fox--Selwyn and gambling--A Private Bill committee--Selwyn in bad spirits--The Royal Society --Book-buying--Political affairs--London parks--Gainsborough--The Duchess of Kingston--Selwyn's private affairs--"The Diaboliad"--A dinner at the French Ambassador's--Politics and the clubs--In Paris --Electioneering again. CHAPTER 4. 1781. THE DISASTERS IN AMERICA. A drum at Selwyn's--George, Lord Morpeth--Dr. Warner--Sale of the Houghton pictures--The House of Commons--Pitt's first speech--Selwyn unwell--Play at Brooks's--London gaieties--Fox and his new clothes --Gambling--The bailiffs in Fox's house--"Fish" Crawford--Montem at Eton--Mie Mie's education--Second speech of Pitt--Lord North--A Court Ball--Society and politics--The Emperor of Austria --Conversation with Fox--Personal feelings--American affairs--rd North and Mr. Robinson--State of politics--London Society. CHAPTER 5. 1782. THE FALL OF LORD NORTH. Fox's political principles--The fifth Duke of Bedford--A little dinner--A debate in the Commons--The attack on Lord George Germaine --An evening at Brooks's--Pitt and his friends--Possible changes in the Cabinet--Faro at White's--A story of the Duke of Richmond--An Address to the King--A Levee--Play and politics at Brooks's --Government and the Opposition--Selwyn and his offices--The position of the King--Fears of change of administration--The King's objections to Fox--Probable debates--Political prospects--Debates and divisions--The fate of the King's friends--Illness of Lord Morpeth--Annoyance of Selwyn at the state of affairs--Fox and Selwyn--Fall of Lord North--A new Ministry--Official changes--Fox and Carlisle--Carlisle's position--Morpeth and Mie Mie. CHAPTER 6. 1786-1791. THE CLOSING CENTURY. Political Events--At Richmond--The Duke of Queensberry's villa --Princess Amelia--The King's illness--The French Revolution --Proposed visit to Castle Howard--In Gloucestershire--Affairs in France--The Emigres--Society at Richmond--The French Revolution --Richmond Theatre--French friends--Christening of Lady Caroline Campbell's child--Selwyn's bad health--Death. INDEX NOTE ON ILLUSTRATIONS Portrait of George Augustus Selwyn at the age of fifty-one: from a pastelle by Hugh Douglas Hamilton, drawn in 1770. Hamilton, who was an Irish artist of considerable reputation, was at this time working in London. After a long visit to Italy he returned to Dublin in 1792 and was elected a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy. This drawing is in the possession of the Earl of Carlisle at Castle Howard, Yorkshire.