[303] William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth, nephew of Henry Legge; and much attached to the Methodist sect; but of an excellent character. [Richardson is reported to have said of him, when asked if he knew an original answerable to his portrait of Sir Charles Grandison, that he might apply it to him if he were not a Methodist. (Southey’s Life of Cowper, vol. i. p. 234.) He was afterwards Secretary of State.--E.] [304] Charles Paulet, Duke of Bolton, K.B. He died without issue in 1765.--E. [305] The best defence of his resignation is given by Mr. Adolphus, vol. i. p. 115, from private information. It by no means exculpates him from the charges in the text, and is also at variance with the statement of a writer who lived on terms of the closest intimacy with the Bute family. M. Dutens says, “That he resigned, because he was disgusted with the bustle of business, indignant at the behaviour of those who endeavoured to obtain his favour, at the baseness of some, and the duplicity of others.”--Memoirs of a Traveller now in Retirement, vol. iv. p. 181. This corresponds with all that has transpired of Lord Bute’s character.--E. [306] Thomas Orby Hunter. [307] Henry Lord Digby, nephew of Mr. Fox. [308] Richard Viscount Howe. [309] Thomas Pitt, of Boconnock, nephew of Mr. William Pitt, with whom he was at variance. [To this gentleman, when a student at the University, Mr. Pitt addressed the beautiful letters subsequently published by Lord Grenville.--E.] [310] General George Townshend, afterwards Viscount. [311] Simon Lord Harcourt, who had been Governor to the King. [312] Charles Douglas, Duke of Queensberry; he had been Lord of the Bedchamber to the late Prince of Wales. [313] James Duke of Athol. [314] A friend of Mr. William Pitt. [315] He had been Groom of the Bedchamber to the late Prince. [316] James Douglas, Earl of March and Ruglin [afterwards Duke of Queensberry]. [317] Charles Shaw, Lord Cathcart, had been one of the hostages to France, and Lords of the Bedchamber to William Duke of Cumberland; he was afterwards Ambassador in Russia. [Died July 21, 1776.--E.] [318] Gertrude Leveson Duchess of Bedford. [319] George Spencer, Duke of Marlborough. [320] John Manners, Duke of Rutland, father of Lord Granby. [321] Granville Leveson Gower, Earl Gower, brother of the Duchess of Bedford. [322] John Calcraft began with being clerk in the War Office at 40_l._ a year. [He was a very shrewd, intelligent man, and gained great popularity with the army by his liberal conduct and hospitality to the officers.--E.] [323] This charge is entirely unfounded. Had there been any truth in it, the connection between Mr. Fox and Mr. Calcraft would not have been so easily dissolved.--E.