Wales.--Amelia Sophia Walmoden.--Poor Queen Caroline!--Nocturnal
Diversions of Maids of Honour.--Neighbour George's Orange
Chest.--Mary Lepel, Lady Hervey.--Rivalry.--Hervey's Intimacy
with Lady Mary.--Relaxations of the Royal Household.--Bacon's
Opinion of Twickenham.--A Visit to Pope's Villa.--The Little
Nightingale.--The Essence of Small Talk.--Hervey's Affectation
and Effeminacy.--Pope's Quarrel with Hervey and Lady
Mary.--Hervey's Duel with Pulteney.--'The Death of Lord Hervey:
a Drama.'--Queen Caroline's last Drawing-room.--Her Illness and
Agony.--A Painful Scene.--The Truth discovered.--The Queen's
Dying Bequests.--The King's Temper.--Archbishop Potter is sent
for.--The Duty of Reconciliation.--The Death of Queen
Caroline.--A Change in Hervey's Life.--Lord Hervey's
Death.--Want of Christianity.--Memoirs of his Own Time. p. 170


PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD.

The King of Table Wits.--Early Years.--Hervey's Description of his
Person.--Resolutions and Pursuits.--Study of Oratory.--The
Duties of an Ambassador.--King George II.'s Opinion of his
Chroniclers.--Life in the Country.--Melusina, Countess of
Walsingham.--George II. and his Father's Will.--Dissolving
Views.--Madame du Bouchet.--The Broad-Bottomed
Administration.--Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in Time of
Peril.--Reformation of the Calendar.--Chesterfield
House.--Exclusiveness.--Recommending 'Johnson's
Dictionary.'--'Old Samuel,' to Chesterfield.--Defensive
Pride.--The Glass of Fashion.--Lord Scarborough's Friendship
for Chesterfield.--The Death of Chesterfield's Son.--His