Success of Admiral Vernon--Royal visit to ‘Bartlemy Fair’-- Party-spirit runs high about the King and Prince--Lady Pomfret--The mad Duchess of Buckingham--Anecdote of Lady Sundon --Witty remark of Lady Mary Wortley--_Fracas_ at Kensington Palace--The battle of Dettingen--A precocious child--Marriage of Princess Mary--A new opposition--Prince George--Lady Yarmouth installed at Kensington--Death of Prince Frederick--Conduct of the King on hearing of this event--Bubb Dodington’s extravagant grief--The funeral scant--Conduct of the widowed Princess-- Opposition of the Prince to the King not undignified--Jacobite epitaph on the Prince--The Prince’s rebuke for frivolous jeer on Lady Huntingdon--The Prince’s patronage of literary men--Lady Archibald Hamilton, the Prince’s favourite--The Prince and the Quakers--Anecdote of Prince George--Princely appreciation of Lady Huntingdon. The era of peace ended with Caroline. Walpole endeavoured to prolong the era, but Spanish aggressions against the English flag in South America drove the ministry into a war. The success of Vernon at Porto Bello rendered the war highly popular. The public enthusiasm was sustained by Anson, but it was materially lowered by our defeat at Carthagena, which prepared the way for the downfall of the minister of Caroline. Numerous and powerful were the opponents of Walpole, and no section of them exhibited more fierceness or better organisation than that of which the elder son of Caroline was the founder and great captain. Frederick, however, was versatile enough to be able to devote as much time to pleasure as to politics.