[214] 'Fanny's tomb:' it had been stated that her tomb had been disturbed, and an expedition actually took place to ascertain the truth. [215] 'Not he:' Paul Whitehead, the profligate satirist. [216] 'Laureate:' William Whitehead, the poet laureate. [217] 'Play': alluding to Whitehead's comedy of the 'School for Lovers.' [219] 'Hunter:' Miss Hunter, one of Queen Charlotte's maids of honour, eloped on the day of the coronation with the Earl of Pembroke. [220] 'Funeral Pomps:' alluding to certain improprieties at the interment of George the Second, which took place the 11th of November 1760. [221] 'Coronations:' the coronation of George the Third on the 22d of September 1761. [222] 'Hart:' a dancing-master of the day. [223] 'A set:' an invidious reflection on the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, founded in the year 1753. [224] 'Bourbon's:' the family compact between France and Spain. [225] 'Gazette:' the _Brussels Gazette_, a notorious paper of that time. [226] 'Patriot's heart:' Mr Pitt, afterwards Lord Chatham. [227] 'Granby:' the Marquis of Granby, distinguished in a conspicuous manner during the seven years' war, under Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick. See Junius. [228] 'Rhyme:' Mallet addressed a contemptible poem, entitled 'Truth in Rhyme,' to the celebrated Lord Chesterfield. [229] 'Place:' the Royal Exchange. [230] 'N----:' not known. [231] 'Pewterers' Hall:' Macklin's recitations and his lectures on elocution were delivered at Pewterers' Hall, in Lime Street. [232] 'Dulman:' Sir Samuel Fludyer, Bart. M.P. for Chippenham, Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England, and Lord Mayor of London for 1761-2. [233] 'Newfoundland:' in May 1762 a French squadron escaped out of Brest in a fog, and took the town of St John's in Newfoundland. [234] 'Aim:' Beckford was the Lord Mayor elect for 1762-3. [235] 'Electorate:' the electorate of Hanover. [236] 'Plausible:' the Rev. W. Sellon in 1763 published a stolen sermon as his own. [237] 'His hook:' Dr Johnson was in possession of subscriptions for his edition of Shakspeare for upwards of twenty years ere it appeared. [238] 'Aldrich:' the Reverend Stephen Aldrich, Rector of St John's, Clerkenwell, actively contributed to the exposure of the Cock-lane ghost. [239] 'Melcombe:' George Bubb Doddington, the son of an apothecary at Weymouth, by skilful electioneering, raised himself to the peerage under the title of Lord Melcombe. Thomson addressed to him his 'Summer,' and Young his 'Universal Passion.' [240] 'Dicky Glover:' Richard Glover, author of 'Leonidas.'