that first night with me, and with Lord Harrington and you."

Whilst the Prince was at Kew, he and Lady Archibald Hamilton, and Dunoyer the dancing-master, and the Princess, used to walk three or four hours every day in the lanes and fields about Richmond. The young Princess falling ill there, the Prince sent to the King and Queen to beg they would give leave to Yager, their German house-apothecary at Hampton Court, to come and see her, which accordingly they did—Sir Robert Walpole having "very politely," as the Queen told me, come and tapped her on the shoulder whilst she was at chapel, to deliver this message from the Prince, and ask her permission and the King's to send Yager immediately.

The Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London having sent, soon after the Princess was brought to bed, to know when his Royal Highness would give them leave to wait on him with their congratulations, the Prince sent them word he would let them know as soon as the Princess was well enough to see them with him; and in consequence of that message he and the Princess went from Kew [on Thursday the 22nd September] to Carlton House (so his house in Pall Mall was called) to receive them.

Lord Carteret, Lord Chesterfield, the Duke of Marlborough, and others of the Prince's present Council, stood close by his Royal Highness at this audience, and

6 So called from Henry Boyle, Lord Carlton, who dying unmarried in 1725, it came to his nephew, Lord Burlington, who gave it to his mother, the old Countess, of whom the Prince bought it in 1732-Lord Hervey says (ante, i. 434), of Lord Chesterfield; but Pyne's History of the Royal Residences' states that Lord Chesterfield was only the negotiator, buying it for the Prince.

distributed to everybody there printed copies of the King's last message to turn the Prince out of St. James's, commenting very pathetically on the cruel usage his Royal Highness had received from his father-Lord Carteret adding at the same time, "You see, gentlemen, how the Prince is threatened if he does not dismiss us; but we are here still, for all that. He is a rock: you may depend upon him, gentlemen: he is sincere: he is firm." The Prince made them a long speech in great form, in which he made many professions of his regard to the trade and prosperity of the City of London; telling them he knew their importance in this kingdom, and the value of their friendship, and should never look upon them as beggars-alluding in this expression to a report which had been industriously spread of Sir Robert Walpole's having called the citizens the Excise year a parcel of sturdy beggars."

When Sir Robert Walpole reported all this to the King and Queen, he told them Carteret had got the message printed for this occasion; but Sir Robert Walpole having told Lord Hervey, above a week before, that he designed to let this message slip into print as by accident, I am apt to imagine he put that Lord Carteret which was entirely his own doing. When he came out of the King's closet from making this report, he told Lord Godolphin, Lord Hervey, and Mr. Pelham, what he had been saying to the King; and when he

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7 He certainly did-and, considering the violence of the petitioners, not unjustly. "Gentlemen," he said, "may give these petitioners what name they please, and say that they come hither as humble suppliants; but I know whom the law calls sturdy beggars,"―alluding to the statute of Elizabeth against "Rogues, Vagabonds, and Sturdy Beggars."

came to that part of the relation that mentions Lord Carteret's having said, "The Prince is firm-he is a rock"-Sir Robert said, "The Prince can never be more firm in maintaining Carteret than I am in my resolution never to have anything to do with him. I am a rock: I am determined in no shape will I ever act with that man."

CHAPTER XXXVII.

The Prince hires Norfolk House, and reduces his Establishment-His Popularity-His Complaints against the King-George I.'s WillGarbled copies of the Correspondence printed by the Prince-The originals translated by Lord Hervey and published-Copies of the Correspondence on the quarrel between George I. and the Prince of Wales -Nefarious design against the latter-The Prince's new Court-Bishop Sherlock offends the Queen-Madame Walmoden-Spanish Depredations The Queen's Conference with Lord Isla-Her opinion on the Separation of England and Hanover.

THE Prince took the Duke of Norfolk's house in St. James's Square for his town dwelling,' and Cliefden for his country habitation, having given unregarded hints to the Duke of Bedford of his desiring to have Southampton House; but before the Duke of Norfolk would consent to the Prince having his house, the Duchess of Norfolk came to Hampton Court to ask the Queen, whom she saw in private, if it would be disagreeable to her and the King; and the Queen assuring the Duchess of Norfolk it would not, and thanking her for the civility she had shown to the King and her, the Duke of Norfolk let the Prince know his house was at his Royal Highness's service.

The Prince reduced the number of his inferior ser

1 I suppose while Carlton House was under some additional repairs; it had been already considerably altered and enlarged in 1735.

2 Which with its court and garden occupied the site, since built over, between Bloomsbury and Russell Squares.

vants, which made him many enemies among the lower sort of people, and did not save him much. money. He put off all his horses too that were not absolutely necessary; and farmed all his tables, even that of the Princess and himself.

I have already taken notice that nobody was ordered by the King to quit the Prince's service, and that particular leave was given to every one who had employments at both Courts to go to both; yet many people quitted the Prince's service, nobody the King's: some through fear of disobliging the King, if they made use of the permission they had to remain, and others from being so ill-used by the Prince, who wanted to pique them into quitting, that there was no possibility of their staying there. Lady Irwin3 was not in the last class ; for though she was as ill-used as anybody, she determined to stand it all, and remained Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess. Lady Torrington' and Lady Effingham laid down that office: the first because her husband, partly from jealousy and partly from policy (both ill-founded), obliged her to it; and the latter only because the other had set her the example. Jemmy Pelham, Secretary to the Prince, was one of those the Prince teased into quitting; and Mr. Lyttelton was immediately put into his place. Mr. Cornwallis, Equerry to the Prince, and a Member of Parliament, quitted because the pension he had from the King was more than

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3 Anne Howard, daughter of Lord Carlisle, and widow of Richard, Viscount Irvine, remarried in 1737 to Colonel Douglas. She was an author, and wrote a poetical answer to Pope's Characters of Women.'-See Parke's Royal and Noble Authors,' v. 155.

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4 Lady Charlotte Montague, wife of Pattee, second Viscount.

5 Jane Bristow, wife of the first Earl.

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