[117] This was so entirely the motive of his conduct, that he wrote to his brother, Lord Hertford, at Paris, that he had voted against the Princess from the fear of being taxed with selfish views. [118] Mr. White, M. P. for East Retford, an old member, highly respected by the Whig party in the House of Commons.--E. [119] She was divorced from him by act of Parliament, for his cruel usage, and then married John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham. She was natural daughter of King James the Second. [120] William Henry Cavendish, third Duke. He had succeeded to the title on the death of his father in 1762, and was at this time only twenty-seven years of age.--E. [121] The King’s youngest brother. [122] The object of the promoters of the bill was to obtain a total prohibition of the importation of foreign silks. This was not the only instance of the Duke of Bedford’s knowledge of political economy. Horace Walpole says elsewhere, that “he spoke readily, and upon _trade_ well.”--E. [123] Robert Henley, Earl of Northington. [124] Annual Register for 1765, p. 42.--E. [125] Gertrude Leveson, daughter of John Lord Gower, and second wife of John Russell, Duke of Bedford. [126] Bedford House stands on the north side of Bloomsbury Square. It has low walls in front, and a garden backwards, with a fossé to the fields. [It was built from a design by Inigo Jones, and has shared the fate of other great mansions in the same quarter of London.--E.] [127] Their son was married to one of Lord Bute’s daughters. [128] A broken wine merchant, brother of Admiral Cotes. [129] Lord Sandwich was the head of Mr. Wortley Montagu’s family.--E. [130] Yet the same indiscreet step did the King take again in 1783, when he dismissed the Duke of Portland and Lord North, and what was called _the Coalition_, before he had made sure of another Administration; and he was for a few days in danger of being obliged to recal those he had just removed; Lord Temple, son of George Grenville, not daring to undertake the Administration after he had consented; and Mr. Pitt, son of Lord Chatham, being almost as timid, and fluctuating backwards and forwards for three or four days, before he at last determined to accept. [131] In a letter to the Duke of Marlborough, of the 19th of May, the Duke of Bedford states, that he plainly charged the King on this occasion with having “very unfaithfully kept” the conditions on which he (the Duke) had accepted office, and urged on him the necessity of forming an efficient Administration. The only result was, that “I left him,” says the Duke, “as did all the rest, without being able to get an explicit answer.”--(Mem. of the House of Russell, vol. ii. p. 560.)--E. [132] In setting no bounds to his hostilities, Lord Holland’s fear operated as much as his resentment. He said to me with great earnestness, “If Mr. Pitt should not be content with taking away my place, but should say, I will have a mark set on him!”