[221] Mr. Pitt, however, with less kindness, said, in reply to Conway’s defence (on the ground of defective information) against the charge of having given such tardy notice to the House of the disturbances in America, that “The excuse to be a valid one, must be a just one. This must appear from the papers now before the House.”--(Parliamentary History, vol. xvi. p. 101.)--E. [222] Sir Francis Dashwood, Lord Despencer. [223] Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax, First Commissioner of the Treasury under George I. [224] Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, Lord Treasurer to Queen Anne. [225] Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, Prime Minister to George I. and George II. [226] Sir William Draper, created Knight of the Bath for the conquest of the Manillas.--[The credit he had gained by his conduct there, and at the capture of Fort St. George, he lost by various weaknesses, and especially by his gross flattery of Mr. Pitt and Lord Granby. In 1779 he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Minorca, and held that office at the time of its capture in 1782, when he exhibited twenty-nine charges against General Murray, his superior in command; the only result of which was, a reprimand to himself. He died at Bath, in 1787. Sir William Draper had been a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, in whose noble chapel the standards taken at the Manillas are still preserved. See more of him in Wraxall’s Posthumous Memoirs, vol. ii. pp. 186–7. Chatham Correspondence, vol. iii. p. 326. Walpole’s Letters to Mann, vol. iii. p. 386.--E.] [227] Dowdeswell. [228] These papers are printed in the Parliamentary History, vol. xvi. p. 112.--E. [229] Mr. Huske was M. P. for Malden. He died in 1773.--E. [230] Sir John Cust. [231] It was not strictly a new paper, but a series of occasional letters in the daily papers. Lord Sandwich will again be found a persecutor of the press in 1773; for printers were alternately, as they served his purposes, his tools or his prey.--[Mr. Scott afterwards received from Lord Sandwich the lucrative appointment of chaplain to Greenwich Hospital. He was more respectable in his profession than might have been expected from his having such a patron, and an accomplished scholar. See an anecdote to his honour, in Twiss’s Life of Lord Eldon.--E.] [232] The club in Albemarle Street, erected by the late Opposition, now Ministers. [233] To the bar of the House, whither members are ordered when they violate the rules or privileges of Parliament. [234] Mrs. Burke was a Presbyterian; the belief, however, of her being a Papist was very general.--E. [235] A lively description of Burke, as a speaker in the House of Commons, is given in Wraxall’s Hist. Mem. v. ii. p. 35.--E.