Tria millia talentûm ex agris et fortunis suis, Totidemque fortasse e regio, cui præest, ærario Exhausit, et dissipavit. Neque quemquam hominem probissimum, Deque republicâ, aut re literariâ optimè meritum, Liberalitate suâ decoravit, aut adjuvit. Solus ex omnibus Belli et pacis arbiter fuit constitutus: At belli legitimè suscipiendi, et persequendi, Aut pacis honestè retinendæ, aut firmandæ Solus ex omnibus expers et ignarus. Semper vehementissimè occupatus, Ac res permagnas visus agere, Omninò nihil agit. Semper festinans, properansque, Atque ad metam tendere prorsùm simulans, Nunquam pervenit. Hæc fortassis, Viator, rides: Sta verò et tristem lege Epilogum; HUJUS unius hominis inscitia Tantum impressit dedecus, Tantum attulit detrimentum reipublicæ, Ut omnibus appareat, Nisi SUECIÆ Genius, siquis est, sese interponat, SUECIAM futuram non esse.” (_Vide page 177._) Henrietta, daughter of Sir Henry Hobart, was first married to Colonel Henry Howard, afterwards Earl of Suffolk, by whom she had an only son, Henry, who succeeded his father, but died a young man. Mr. Howard and she travelled in very mean circumstances to Hanover before the accession of that family to the Crown; and after it, she was made a Woman of the Bedchamber to the Princess; and being _confidante_ of the Prince’s passion for a lady, who was in love with, and soon after privately married to, a Colonel, Mrs. Howard had the address to divert the channel of his inclination to herself. Her husband bore it very ill, and attempted to force her from St. James’s, but was at last quieted with a pension of 1200_l._ per annum. Yet Mrs. Howard had little interest with the King. The Queen persecuted whoever courted her; and Sir R. Walpole directing all his worship to the uncommonly-powerful wife, Mrs. Howard naturally became his enemy, and as naturally attached herself to Lord Bolingbroke; the more intimate connexion of which intercourse, carelessly concealed by a mistress that was tired, and eagerly hunted out by a wife still jealous, was unravelled by the Princess Emily at the Bath, and at last laid open by the cautious Queen; the King stormed; the mistress was glad he did, left him in his moods, and married George Berkeley, brother to the late Earl, by whom she was again left a widow in 1746.