January, 1840.
(1) Sketch of the Life, etc.

(2) The coincidence of remarkable names in the two families of
Mann and Walpole, would lead one to imagine that there was
also some connection of relationship between them-and yet none
is to be traced in the pedigree of either family. Sir Robert
Walpole had two brothers named Horace and Galfridus-and Sir
Horace Mann's next brother was named Galfridus Mann. If such
a relationship did exist, it probably came through the
Burwells, the family of Sir Robert Walpole's mother.
(3) "Sir Robert Walpole's expression, when he found that
Pulteney had consented to be made Earl of Bath."

(4) "Fox was secretary at war."




ADVERTISEMENT.


To the first edition of Lord Orford's works, which was
published the year after he died, no memoir of his life was
prefixed: his death was too recent, his
life and character was too well known, his works
too popular, to require it. His political Memoirs, and
the collections of his Letters which have been subsequently
published, were edited by persons, who, though well qualified