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INTRODUCTION.	THE KING OF PRUSSIA’S VICTORIES—VOLTAIRE’S “UNIVERSAL HISTORY.”
MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS OF WALES .	HIS OWN “ROYAL AND NOBLE AUTHORS.”
FONDNESS FOR OLD STORIES	HIS “ROYAL AND NOBLE AUTHORS”—LORD CLARENDON—SIR R. WALPOLE AND LORD BOLINGBROKE—THE DUKE OF LEEDS.
WISH TO TRAVEL	WALPOLE’S MONUMENT TO SIR HORACE’S BROTHER—ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE KING OF PORTUGAL—COURTESY OF THE DUC D’AIGUILLON TO HIS ENGLISH PRISONERS.
THEATRES AT PARIS	A NEW EDITION OF LUCAN—COMPARISON OF “PHARSALEA”—CRITICISM ON THE POET, WITH THE AENEID—HELVETIUS’S WORK, “DE L’ESPRIT.”
MAGNIFICENCE OF VERSAILLES	STATE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
THE CARNIVAL	ROBERTSON’S “HISTORY OF SCOTLAND”—COMPARISON OF RAMSAY AND REYNOLDS AS PORTRAIT-PAINTERS—SIR DAVID’S “HISTORY OF THE GOWRIE CONSPIRACY.”
HERCULANEUM	WRITERS OF HISTORY: GOODALL, HUME, ROBERTSON—QUEEN CHRISTINA.
DANGER OF MALARIA	THE BATTLE OF MINDEN—LORD G. SACKVILLE.
A FLORENTINE WEDDING	ADMIRAL BOSCAWEN’S VICTORY—DEFEAT OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA—LORD G. SACKVILLE.
DEBATE ON PULTENEY’S MOTION FOR A COMMITTEE ON PAPERS RELATING TO THE WAR	A YEAR OF TRIUMPHS.
RANELAGH GARDENS OPENED	FRENCH BANKRUPTCY—FRENCH EPIGRAM.
DEBATE ON DISBANDING THE HANOVERIAN TROOPS	HE LIVES AMONGST ROYALTY—COMMOTIONS IN IRELAND.
KING THEODORE	SEVERITY OF THE WEATHER—SCARCITY IN GERMANY—A PARTY AT PRINCE EDWARD’S—CHARLES TOWNSEND’S COMMENTS ON LA FONTAINE.
BATTLE OF DETTINGEN—DEATH OF LORD WILMINGTON.	CAPTURE OF CARRICKFERGUS.
FRENCH ACTORS AT CLIFDEN	THE BALLAD OF “HARDYKNUTE”—MR. HOME’S “SIEGE OF AQUILEIA”—“TRISTRAM SHANDY”—BISHOP WARBURTON’S PRAISE OF IT.
DEATH OF HIS FATHER—MATTHEWS AND LESTOCK IN THE MEDITERRANEAN	ERSE POETRY—“THE DIALOGUES OF THE DEAD”—“THE COMPLETE ANGLER.”
BATTLE OF FONTENOY	VISITS IN THE MIDLAND COUNTIES—WHICHNOVRE—SHEFFIELD—THE NEW ART OF PLATING—CHATSWORTH—HADDON HALL—HARDWICKE—APARTMENTS OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS—NEWSTEAD—ALTHORP.
M. DE GRIGNAN—LIVY’S PATAVINITY—THE MARECHAL DE BELLEISLE—WHISTON PROPHECIES THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD—THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.	GENTLEMAN’S DRESS—INFLUENCE OF LORD BUTE—ODE BY LORD MIDDLESEX—G. SELWYN’S QUOTATION.
INVASION OF SCOTLAND BY THE YOUNG PRETENDER	CAPTURE OF BELLEISLE—GRAY’S POEMS—HOGARTH’S VANITY.
THIS AND THE FOLLOWING LETTERS GIVE A LIVELY ACCOUNT OF THE PROGRESS OF THE REBELLION TILL THE RETREAT FROM DERBY, AFTER WHICH NO PARTICULAR INTEREST ATTACHES TO IT.	INTENDED MARRIAGE OF THE KING—BATTLES IN GERMANY—CAPTURE OF PONDICHERRY—BURKE.
DEFEAT OF COPE.	ARRIVAL OF THE PRINCESS OF MECKLENBURGH—THE ROYAL WEDDING—THE QUEEN’S APPEARANCE AND BEHAVIOUR.
GENERAL WADE IS MARCHING TO SCOTLAND—VIOLENT PROCLAMATION OF THE PRETENDER.	THE CORONATION AND SUBSEQUENT GAIETIES.
GALLANT RESISTANCE OF CARLISLE—MR. PITT ATTACKS THE MINISTRY.	A COURT BALL—PAMPHLETS ON MR. PITT—A SONG BY GRAY.
THE REBEL ARMY HAS RETREATED FROM DERBY—EXPECTATION OF A FRENCH INVASION.	DEATH OF THE CZARINA ELIZABETH—THE COCK-LANE GHOST—RETURN TO ENGLAND OF LADY MARY WORTLEY.
BATTLE OF CULLODEN.	HIS OWN “ANECDOTES OF PAINTING”—HIS PICTURE OF THE WEDDING OF HENRY VII.—BURNET’S COMPARISON OF TIBERIUS AND CHARLES II.—ADDISON’S “TRAVELS.”
TRIAL OF THE REBEL LORDS BALMERINO AND KILMARNOCK.	NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE—CHRISTENING OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.
THE BATTLE OF RANCOUX.	TREASURES FROM THE HAVANNAH—THE ROYAL VISIT TO ETON—DEATH OF LADY MARY—CONCEALMENT OF HER WORKS—VOLTAIRE’S “UNIVERSAL HISTORY.”
ON CONWAY’S VERSES—NO SCOTCH_MAN_ IS CAPABLE OF SUCH DELICACY OF THOUGHT, THOUGH A SCOTCHWOMAN MAY BE—AKENSIDE’S, ARMSTRONG’S, AND GLOVER’S POEMS.	RESIGNATION OF LORD BUTE—FRENCH VISITORS—WALPOLE AND NO. 45.
HE HAS BOUGHT STRAWBERRY HILL.	A PARTY AT “STRABERRI”—WORK OF HIS PRINTING PRESS—EPIGRAMS—A GARDEN PARTY AT ESHER.
HIS MODE OF LIFE—PLANTING—PROPHECIES OF NEW METHODS AND NEW DISCOVERIES IN A FUTURE GENERATION.	GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE FRENCH—FESTIVITIES ON THE QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY.
REJOICINGS FOR THE PEACE—MASQUERADE AT RANELAGH—MEETING OF THE PRINCES PARTY AND THE JACOBITES—PREVALENCE OF DRINKING AND GAMBLING—WHITEFIELD.	THE ORDINARY WAY OF LIFE IN ENGLAND—WILKES—C. TOWNSHEND—COUNT LALLY—LORD CLIVE—LORD NORTHINGTON—LOUIS LE BIEN Aimé—THE DRAMA IN FRANCE.
EARTHQUAKE IN LONDON—GENERAL PANIC—MARRIAGE OF CASIMIR, KING OF POLAND.	A NEW YEAR’S PARTY AT LADY SUFFOLK’S—LADY TEMPLE POETESS LAUREATE TO THE MUSES.
GENERAL PANIC—SHERLOCK’S PASTORAL LETTER—PREDICTIONS OF MORE EARTHQUAKES—A GENERAL FLIGHT FROM LONDON—EPIGRAMS BY CHUTE AND WALPOLE HIMSELF—FRENCH TRANSLATION OF MILTON.	MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF BRUNSWICK: HIS POPULARITY.
DEATH OF WALPOLE’S BROTHER, AND OF THE PRINCE OF WALES—SPEECH OF THE YOUNG PRINCE—SINGULAR SERMON ON HIS DEATH.	GAMBLING QUARRELS—MR. CONWAY’S SPEECH.
CHANGES IN THE MINISTRY AND HOUSEHOLD—THE MISS GUNNINGS—EXTRAVAGANCE IN LONDON—LORD HARCOURT, GOVERNOR OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.	ACCOUNT OF THE DEBATE ON THE GENERAL WARRANT.
DESCRIPTION OF STRAWBERRY HILL—BILL TO PREVENT CLANDESTINE MARRIAGES.	LORD CLIVE—MR. HAMILTON, AMBASSADOR TO NAPLES—SPEECH OF LOUIS XV.
NO NEWS FROM FRANCE BUT WHAT IS SMUGGLED—THE KING’S DELIGHT AT THE VOTE FOR THE HANOVER TROOPS—BON MOT OF LORD DENBIGH.	THE KING OF POLAND—CATHERINE OF RUSSIA.
VICTORY OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA AT LOWOSITZ—SINGULAR RACE—QUARREL OF THE PRETENDER WITH THE POPE.	MADAME DE BOUFFLERS’ WRITINGS—KING JAMES’S JOURNAL.
MINISTERIAL NEGOTIATIONS—LOSS OF MINORCA—DISASTER IN NORTH AMERICA.

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