[48] Mr. Townshend had quitted the Army at the end of the last year, had connected himself with the Prince, and took all opportunities of opposing any of the Duke’s measures, and ridiculing him, and drawing caricatures of him and his Court, which he did with much humour. A _bon mot_ of his was much repeated. Soon after he had quitted the Army, he was met at a review on the parade by Colonel Fitzwilliam, one of the Duke’s military spies, who said to him, “How came you, Mr. Townshend, to do us this honour?--but I suppose you only come as a spectator!” Mr. Townshend replied, “And why may not one come hither as a _Spectator_, Sir, as well as a _Tatler_?” Lord Robert Sutton was second son to the Duke of Rutland, and had been preferred to the command of a favourite regiment which the Duke had nearly instituted, before Lord Robert was of any rank in the Army; yet he deserted him, and accepted the place of Lord of the Bedchamber to the Prince. [49] Honourable Henry Seymour Conway, second son of Lord Conway, and brother of the first Earl of Hertford. Commander-in-Chief in 1782; Field-Marshal in 1793.--E. [50] This is surely a slip of the pen; should we not read _un_fashionable virtue?--E. [51] This went by the name of the Robin Hood Society, and met every Monday. Questions were proposed, and any persons might speak on them for seven minutes; after which, the baker, who presided with a hammer in his hand, summed up the arguments. [52] Robert Nugent, bred a Roman Catholic, had turned Protestant, and not long after married Mrs. Knight, sister and daughter to the two Craggs’s. [53] It was addressed to Lord Bath upon the author’s change of his religion; but was universally believed to be written by Mallet, who was tutor to Newsham, Mrs. Nugent’s son, and improved by Mr. Pulteney himself and Lord Chesterfield. [54] Had this ode been really his own, he would resemble the poet Tynnichus in Plato’s Io, “who never composed any other poem worth the mention or remembrance, besides that poem which every body sings.”--See SYDENHAM’S TRANSLAT. p. 49. [55] The Duke of Newcastle included in the word “Pelhams.”--E. [56] Yet it was remarkable that Dr. Gally, the Minister of his parish, could never get admitted to Murray, when he was collecting subscriptions against the Rebellion, though he went several times to his house at all hours. [57] Melusina Schulemburgh, Countess of Walsingham. [58] She left £20,000 to Lord Chesterfield, and £10,000 to William Pitt. CHAPTER III.