[94] Strange was a most undisguised Jacobite. Allan Ramsay, the painter, of as disaffected a family, (and who had set out to join the Pretender, when he heard of his defeat,) being offended that Strange had been unwilling to engrave his portrait of George III., imputed it to Strange’s Jacobitism. The latter, who certainly had been patronized by Lord Bute on the death of George II., but quarrelled with him, published a pamphlet against the Earl, in which he taxed the Earl with the ridiculous vanity of chusing to have his own portrait engraved before the King’s. [95] It was worth remembering, that amongst the authors patronised and pensioned by George the Third, were Smollett, imprisoned for a libel; Shebbeare, who had stood in the pillory for abusing George I., King William, and the Revolution; and some other libellers.--A. To have patronised two ingenious men of letters, though formerly convicted of political libels, is no discredit whatever to George III.--When, indeed, during his reign, new and severer laws were devised against political libel, it might have been _worth remembering_ how many worthy, eminent, and learned men had incurred the guilt, and been exposed to the consequences, of that imperfectly defined species of offence, at various periods of our history: a circumstance from which it must naturally be inferred, that all further penalties adopted by Parliament may be inflicted on others, as worthy, as eminent, and as learned.--E. [96] Brother of Sir Gilbert Elliot, one of the Lords of the Treasury. [97] Joseph Damer, Lord Milton, had married Lady Caroline Sackville, sister of Lord George.--A. He was created an Earl in 1792, and died in 1798.--E. [98] Doddington was an old friend of the Duke of Dorset, was no friend to Mr. Pitt, and was attached to the Princess Dowager: so was Sir Francis Dashwood. [99] Lord Albemarle was the favourite of the Duke of Cumberland, who was no friend to Lord George. [100] Lady Anne Lenox, youngest daughter of Charles, first Duke of Richmond of that line. She had been Lady of the Bed-Chamber to Queen Caroline. After the Queen’s death the King had private parties at cards every night, from nine to eleven, in the apartment of the Princesses Amelie and Caroline, to which only the most favourite Lords and Ladies of the Court were invited, and some of the King’s Grooms of the Bed-Chamber. She died, at an advanced age, in 1789. [101] Brother of the Marquis of Tweedale. [102] Henry Bathurst, Chancellor to the late Prince of Wales, attached to the Princess Dowager, and Lord High Chancellor in the following reign.--A. He died in 1794.--E. [103] Only brother of William, Earl of Bath. [104] Only brother of the Earl of Carlisle, and Knight of the Bath. [105] James, only brother of George, third Earl of Cholmondeley, and much attached to the Duke of Cumberland.