[7] One of his papers in _The World_ contains an account of an escape which he had, in 1749, of being shot by highwaymen in Hyde Park. His face was grazed by a ball from the pistol of one of his assailants, which went off accidentally before aim had been taken. An allusion to this adventure will be found in one of our extracts. [8] Letter to John Pinkerton, Dec. 26, 1791. [9] “I have been called a Republican; I never was quite that.”--Walpole to Lady Ossory, July 7, 1782. [10] Letter to Mann, July 10, 1782. [11] Letter to Lady Ossory, July 7, 1782. [12] Miss Berry. [13] Letter to Sir Horace Mann. [14] Letter to Sir Horace Mann, July 1, 1762. [15] Son of Brigadier-General Edward Montagu, and nephew to the second Earl of Halifax. He was member of Parliament for Northampton, usher of the Black Rod in Ireland during the lieutenancy of the Earl of Halifax, ranger of Salsey Forest, and private secretary to Lord North when Chancellor of the Exchequer. [16] Had Chatterton appealed simply to Walpole’s charity, he would not have been rejected. This was the opinion of those who knew Horace best. But, apart from the imposture sought to be palmed on him, Walpole did not profess to be a patron of literature or the arts. An artist has pencils, he would say, and an author has pens, and the public must reward them as it sees fit. [17] Thus described by Walpole in his account of the pictures at Houghton: “The Virgin and Child, a most beautiful, bright, and capital picture, by Dominichino: bought out of the Zambeccari Palace at Bologna by Horace Walpole, junior.” [18] The Princess of Campoflorido. [19] Lord Orford’s successor as Chancellor of the Exchequer. [20] When he [Kilmarnock] beheld the fatal scaffold covered with black cloth; the executioner, with his axe and his assistants; the saw-dust, which was soon to be drenched with his blood; the coffin, prepared to receive the limbs which were yet warm with life; above all, the immense display of human countenances which surrounded the scaffold like a sea, all eyes being bent on the sad object of the preparation,--his natural feelings broke forth in a whisper to the friend on whose arm he leaned, “Home, this is terrible!” No sign of indecent timidity, however, affected his behaviour.--_Sir Walter Scott’s Tales of my Grandfather._ [21] Afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury. Walpole had a strong and unreasonable prejudice against him. [22] Thomas Sherlock, Master of the Temple; first, Bishop of Salisbury, and afterwards of London.--WALPOLE. [23] She was daughter of the Duke of Grafton. [24] His gait was so singular, that he was called Peter Shamble. [25] Mrs. Lloyd of Spring Gardens, to whom the Earl of Haddington was married this year. [26] An Irish adventurer, whose fine person had induced the Dowager Duchess of Manchester to marry him. He was afterwards created Earl of Beaulieu. O’Brien, it seems, was even taller than Hussey.