Part 1

LETTERS

HORACE WALPOLE

SELECTED AND EDITED BY

CHARLES DUKE YONGE, M.A.

AUTHOR OF "THE HISTORY OF FRANCE UNDER THE BOURBONS," "A LIFE OF MARIE ANTOINETTE," ETC., ETC.

WITH PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME I

London

T. FISHER UNWIN

PATERNOSTER SQUARE

NEW YORK: G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS

MDCCCXC

CONTENTS.

1736-1764.

1. TO MONTAGU, May 2, 1736.--Marriage of the Princess of Wales--Very lively

2. TO THE SAME, May 6, 1736.--Fondness for Old Stories--Reminiscences of Eton, etc.

3. TO THE SAME, March 20, 1737.--Wish to Travel--Superiority of French Manners to English in their manner to Ladies

4. TO WEST, April 21, 1739.--Theatres at Paris--St. Denis--Fondness of the French for Show, and for Gambling--Singular Signs--The Army the only Profession for Men of Gentle Birth--Splendour of the Public Buildings

5. TO THE SAME, 1739.--Magnificence of Versailles--The Chartreux Relics

6. TO THE SAME, February 27, 1740.--The Carnival--The Florentines Civil, Good-natured, and Fond of the English--A Curious Challenge

7. TO THE SAME, June 14, 1740.--Herculaneum--Search should be made for other Submerged Cities--Quotations from Statius

8. TO CONWAY, July 5, 1740.--Danger of Malaria--Roman Catholic Relics--"Admiral Hosier's Ghost"--Contest for the Popedom

9. TO THE SAME, July 9, 1740

10. TO WEST, Oct. 2, 1740.--A Florentine Wedding--Addison's Descriptions are Borrowed from Books--A Song of Bondelmonti's, with a Latin Version by Gray, and an English One by the Writer

11. TO MANN, Jan. 22, 1742.--Debate on Pulteney's Motion for a Committee on Papers Relating to the War--Speeches of Pulteney, Pitt, Sir R. Walpole, Sir W. George, etc.--Smallness of the Ministerial Majority

12. TO THE SAME, May 26, 1742.--Ranelagh Gardens Opened--Garrick, "A Wine-merchant turned Player"--Defeat of the Indemnity Bill

13. TO THE SAME, Dec. 9, 1742.--Debate on Disbanding the Hanoverian Troops--First Speech of Murray (afterwards Earl of Mansfield)--Bon Mot of Lord Chesterfield

14. TO THE SAME, Feb. 24, 1743.--King Theodore--Handel Introduces Oratorios