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MADAME DE BOUFFLERS AT STRAWBERRY—THE FRENCH OPINION OF THE ENGLISH CHARACTER—RICHARDSON’S NOVELS—MADAME DE BEAUMONT.	BURKE’S ELECTION AT BRISTOL—RESEMBLANCE OF ONE HOUSE OF COMMONS TO ANOTHER—COMFORT OF OLD AGE.
DEBATE ON AMERICAN TAXES—PETITION OF THE PERIWIG-MAKERS—FEMALE HEAD-DRESSES—LORD BYRON’S DUEL—OPENING OF ALMACK’S—NO. 45.	DEATH OF LORD CLIVE—RESTORATION OF THE FRENCH PARLIAMENT—PREDICTION OF GREAT MEN TO ARISE IN AMERICA—THE KING’S SPEECH.
HIS “CASTLE OF OTRANTO”—BISHOP PERCY’S COLLECTION OF OLD BALLADS.	RIOTS AT BOSTON—A LITERARY COTERIE AT BATH—EASTON.
ILLNESS OF THE KING—FRENCH AND ENGLISH ACTORS AND ACTRESSES: CLAIRON, GARRICK, QUIN, MRS. CLIVE.	OPPOSITION OF THE FRENCH PARLIAMENTS TO TURGOT’S MEASURES.
RIOTS OF WEAVERS—MINISTERIAL CHANGES—FACTIOUS CONDUCT OF MR. PITT.	HIS DECORATIONS AT “STRAWBERRY”—HIS ESTIMATE OF HIMSELF, AND HIS ADMIRATION OF CONWAY.
PROSPECTS OF OLD AGE WHEN JOINED TO GOUT.	ANGLOMANIE IN PARIS—HORSE-RACING.
HAS REACHED PARIS—THE FRENCH OPERA—ILLNESS OF THE DAUPHIN—POPULARITY OF MR. HUME.	OSSIAN—CHATTERTON.
IS MAKING NEW FRIENDS IN PARIS—DECAY OF THE FRENCH STAGE—LE KAIN—DUMENIL—NEW FRENCH INCLINATION FOR PHILOSOPHY AND FREE-THINKING—GENERAL ADMIRATION OF HUME’S HISTORY AND RICHARDSON’S NOVELS.	AFFAIRS IN AMERICA—THE CZARINA AND THE EMPEROR OF CHINA.
HIS PRESENTATION AT COURT—ILLNESS OF THE DAUPHIN—DESCRIPTION OF HIS THREE SONS.	DEATH OF LORD CHATHAM—THURLOW BECOMES LORD CHANCELLOR.
SUPPER PARTIES AT PARIS—WALPOLE WRITES A LETTER FROM LE ROI DE PRUSSE A MONSIEUR ROUSSEAU.	EXULTATION OF FRANCE AT OUR DISASTERS IN AMERICA—FRANKLIN—NECKER—CHATTERTON.
A CONSTANT ROUND OF AMUSEMENTS—A GALLERY OF FEMALE PORTRAITS—MADAME GEOFFRIN—MADAME DU DEFFAND—MADAME DE MIREPOIX—MADAME DE BOUFFLERS—MADAME DE ROCHFORT—THE Maréchale DE LUXEMBURG—THE DUCHESSE DE CHOISEUL—AN OLD FRENCH DANDY—M. DE MAUREPAS—POPULARITY OF HIS LETTER TO ROUSSEAU.	ADMIRAL KEPPEL’S SUCCESS—THREATS OF INVASION—FUNERAL OF LORD CHATHAM.
SITUATION OF AFFAIRS IN ENGLAND—CARDINAL YORK—DEATH OF STANILAUS LECZINSKI, EX-KING OF POLAND.	SUGGESTION OF NEGOTIATIONS WITH FRANCE—PARTITION OF POLAND.
SINGULAR RIOT IN MADRID—CHANGES IN THE FRENCH MINISTRY—INSURRECTIONS IN THE PROVINCES.	UNSUCCESSFUL CRUISE OF KEPPEL—CHARACTER OF LORD CHATHAM.
THE BATH GUIDE—SWIFT’S CORRESPONDENCE.	CAPTURE OF PONDICHERRY—CHANGES IN THE MINISTRY—LA FAYETTE IN AMERICA.
BATH—WESLEY.	DIVISIONS IN THE MINISTRY—CHARACTER OF THE ITALIANS AND OF THE FRENCH.
MINISTERIAL DIFFICULTIES—RETURN OF LORD CLIVE.	ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS—DEATH OF LORD TEMPLE.
DEATH OF CHARLES TOWNSHEND AND OF THE DUKE OF YORK—WHIST THE NEW FASHION IN FRANCE.	CHANCES OF WAR WITH HOLLAND—HIS FATHER’S POLICY—POPE—CHARACTER OF BOLINGBROKE.
SOME NEW POEMS OF GRAY—WALPOLE’S “HISTORIC DOUBTS”—BOSWELL’S “CORSICA."	POLITICAL EXCITEMENT—LORD G. GORDON—EXTRAORDINARY GAMBLING AFFAIRS IN INDIA.
WILKES IS RETURNED M.P. FOR MIDDLESEX—RIOTS IN LONDON—VIOLENCE OF THE MOB.	RODNEY’S VICTORY—WALPOLE INCLINES TO WITHDRAW FROM AMUSEMENTS.
FLEETING FAME OF WITTICISMS—“THE MYSTERIOUS MOTHER."	THE GORDON RIOTS.
CASE OF WILKES.	HOGARTH—COLONEL CHARTERIS—ARCHBISHOP BLACKBURNE—JERVAS—RICHARDSON’S POETRY.
THE ENGLISH CLIMATE.	THE PRINCE OF WALES—HURRICANE AT BARBADOES—A “VOICE FROM ST. HELENA."
VOLTAIRE’S CRITICISMS ON SHAKESPEARE—PARNELL’S “HERMIT."	NAVAL MOVEMENTS—SIEGE OF GIBRALTAR—FEMALE FASHIONS.
ARRIVAL OF THE KING OF DENMARK—HIS POPULARITY WITH THE MOB.	CAPITULATION OF LORD CORNWALLIS—PITT AND FOX.
WILKES’S ELECTION—THE COMTESSE DE BARRI—THE DUC DE CHOISEUL’S INDISCRETION.	THE LANGUAGE PROPER FOR INSCRIPTIONS IN ENGLAND—FALL OF LORD NORTH’S MINISTRY—BRYANT.
A GARDEN PARTY AT STRAWBERRY—A RIDOTTO AT VAUXHALL.	HIGHWAYMEN AND FOOTPADS.
PAOLI—AMBASSADORIAL ETIQUETTE.	FOX’S INDIA BILL—BALLOONS.
HIS RETURN TO PARIS—MADAME DEFFAND—A TRANSLATION OF “HAMLET”—MADAME DUMENIL—VOLTAIRE’S “MEROPE” AND “LES Guèbres.”	BALLOONS.
THE FRENCH COURT—THE YOUNG PRINCES—ST. CYR—MADAME DE MAILLY.	HIS LETTERS ON LITERATURE—DISADVANTAGE OF MODERN WRITERS—COMPARISON OF LADY MARY WORTLEY WITH MADAME DE SEVIGNE.
A MASQUERADE—STATE OF RUSSIA.	CRITICISM ON VARIOUS AUTHORS: GREEK, LATIN, FRENCH, AND ENGLISH—HUMOUR OF ADDISON, AND OF FIELDING—WALLER—MILTON—BOILEAU’S “LUTRIN”—“THE RAPE OF THE LOCK”—MADAME DE SEVIGNE.
WILKES—BURKE’S PAMPHLET—PREDICTION OF AMERICAN REPUBLICS—EXTRAVAGANCE IN ENGLAND.	MINISTERIAL DIFFICULTIES—THE AFFAIR OF THE NECKLACE IN PARIS—FLUCTUATING UNPOPULARITY OF STATESMEN—FALLACIES OF HISTORY.
MASQUERADES IN FASHION—A LADY’S CLUB.	BREVITY OF MODERN ADDRESSES—THE OLD DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH.
THE PRINCESS OF WALES IS GONE TO GERMANY—TERRIBLE ACCIDENT IN PARIS.	LADY CRAVEN—MADAME PIOZZI—“THE ROLLIAD”—HERSCHEL’S ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERY.
FALL OF THE DUC DE CHOISEUL’S MINISTRY.	MRS. YEARSLEY—MADAME PIOZZI—GIBBON—“LE MARIAGE DE FIGARO."
PEACE WITH SPAIN—BANISHMENT OF THE FRENCH PARLIAMENT—MRS. CORNELYS’S ESTABLISHMENT—THE QUEEN OF DENMARK.	GENTLEMEN WRITERS—HIS OWN REASONS FOR WRITING WHEN YOUNG—VOLTAIRE—“EVELINA”—MISS SEWARD—HAYLEY.
QUARREL OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS WITH THE CITY—DISSENSIONS IN THE FRENCH COURT AND ROYAL FAMILY—EXTRAVAGANCE IN ENGLAND.	DIVISIONS IN THE ROYAL FAMILY—THE REGENCY—THE IRISH PARLIAMENT.
GREAT DISTRESS AT THE FRENCH COURT.	"THE ARABIAN NIGHTS”—THE AENEID—BOCCALINI—ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE.
ENGLISH GARDENING IN FRANCE—ANGLOMANIE—HE IS WEARY OF PARIS—DEATH OF GRAY.	DISMISSAL OF NECKER—BARON DE BRETEUIL—THE DUC D’Orléans—MIRABEAU.
SCANTINESS OF THE RELICS OF GRAY—GARRICK’S PROLOGUES, ETC.—WILKES’S SQUINT.	BRUCE’S “TRAVELS”—VIOLENCE OF THE FRENCH JACOBINS—NECKER.
MARRIAGE OF THE PRETENDER—THE PRINCESS LOUISE, AND HER PROTECTION OF THE CLERGY—FOX’S ELOQUENCE.	THE PRINCE OF WALES—GROWTH OF LONDON AND OTHER TOWNS.
AN ANSWER TO HIS “HISTORIC DOUBTS”—HIS EDITION OF GRAMMONT.	SIR W. AND LADY HAMILTON—A BOAT-RACE—THE MARGRAVINE OF ANSPACH.
POPULARITY OF LOUIS XVI—DEATH OF LORD HOLLAND—BRUCE’S “TRAVELS."	ARREST OF THE DUCHESSE DE BIRON—THE QUEEN OF FRANCE—PYTHAGORAS.
DISCONTENT IN AMERICA—MR. GRENVILLE’S ACT FOR THE TRIAL OF ELECTION PETITIONS—HIGHWAY ROBBERIES.	EXPECTATIONS OF A VISIT TO STRAWBERRY BY THE QUEEN.
THE POPE’S DEATH—WILKES IS RETURNED FOR MIDDLESEX—A QUAKER AT VERSAILLES.

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