Pump-room, &c.--A Public Benefactor.--Life at Bath in Nash's
time.--A Compact with the Duke of Beaufort.--Gaming at
Bath.--Anecdotes of Nash.--'Miss Sylvia.'--A Generous
Act.--Nash's Sun setting.--A Panegyric.--Nash's Funeral.--His
Characteristics. p. 127


PHILIP, DUKE OF WHARTON.

Wharton's Ancestors.--His Early Years.--Marriage at
Sixteen.--Wharton takes leave of his Tutor.--The Young Marquis
and the Old Pretender.--Frolics at Paris.--Zeal for the Orange
Cause.--A Jacobite Hero.--The Trial of Atterbury.--Wharton's
Defence of the Bishop.--Hypocritical Signs of Penitence.--Sir
Robert Walpole duped.--Very Trying.--The Duke of Wharton's
'Whens.'--Military Glory at Gibraltar.--'Uncle
Horace.'--Wharton to 'Uncle Horace.'--The Duke's
Impudence.--High Treason.--Wharton's Ready Wit.--Last
Extremities.--Sad Days in Paris.--His Last Journey to
Spain.--His Death in a Bernardine Convent. p. 148


LORD HERVEY.

George II. arriving from Hanover.--His Meeting with the
Queen.--Lady Suffolk.--Queen Caroline.--Sir Robert
Walpole.--Lord Hervey.--A Set of Fine Gentlemen.--An Eccentric
Race.--Carr, Lord Hervey.--A Fragile Boy.--Description of
George II.'s Family.--Anne Brett.--A Bitter Cup.--The Darling
of the Family.--Evenings at St. James's.--Frederick, Prince of