Part 2

15. TO THE SAME, July 4, 1743.--Battle of Dettingen--Death of Lord Wilmington

16. TO THE SAME, Sept. 7, 1743.--French Actors at Clifden--A new Roman Catholic Miracle--Lady Mary Wortley

17. TO THE SAME, March 29, 1745.--Death of his Father--Matthews and Lestock in the Mediterranean--Thomson's "Tancred and Sigismunda"--Akenside's Odes--Conundrums in Fashion

18. TO THE SAME, May 11, 1745.--Battle of Fontenoy--The Ballad of the Prince of Wales

19. TO MONTAGU, August 1, 1745.--M. De Grignan--Livy's Patavinity--The Maréchal De Belleisle--Whiston Prophecies the Destruction of the World--The Duke of Newcastle

20. TO MANN, Sept. 6, 1745.--Invasion of Scotland by the Young Pretender--Forces are said to be Preparing in France to join him

21. TO THE SAME, Sept. 20, 1745.--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

22. TO THE SAME, Sept. 27, 1745.--Defeat of Cope

23. TO THE SAME, Oct. 21, 1745.--General Wade is Marching to Scotland--Violent Proclamation of the Pretender

24. TO THE SAME, Nov. 22, 1745.--Gallant Resistance of Carlisle--Mr. Pitt attacks the Ministry

25. TO THE SAME, Dec. 9, 1745.--The Rebel Army has Retreated from Derby--Expectation of a French Invasion

26. TO THE SAME, April 25, 1746.--Battle of Culloden

27. TO THE SAME, Aug. 1, 1746.--Trial of the Rebel Lords Balmerino and Kilmarnock

28. TO THE SAME, Oct. 14, 1746.--The Battle of Rancoux

29. TO CONWAY, Oct. 24, 1746.--On Conway's Verses--No Scotchman is capable of such Delicacy of Thought, though a Scotchwoman may be--Akenside's, Armstrong's, and Glover's Poems

30. TO THE SAME, June 8, 1747.--He has bought Strawberry Hill

31. TO THE SAME, Aug. 29, 1748.--His Mode of Life--Planting--Prophecies of New Methods and New Discoveries in a Future Generation

32. TO MANN, May 3, 1749.--Rejoicings for the Peace--Masquerade at Ranelagh--Meeting of the Prince's Party and the Jacobites--Prevalence of Drinking and Gambling--Whitefield

33. TO THE SAME, March 11, 1750.--Earthquake in London--General Panic--Marriage of Casimir, King of Poland

34. TO THE SAME, April 2, 1750.--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

35. TO THE SAME, April 1, 1751.--Death of Walpole's Brother, and of the Prince of Wales--Speech of the young Prince--Singular Sermon on His Death

36. TO THE SAME, June 18, 1751.--Changes in the Ministry and Household--The Miss Gunnings--Extravagance in London--Lord Harcourt, Governor of the Prince of Wales

37. TO THE SAME, June 12, 1753.--Description of Strawberry Hill--Bill to Prevent Clandestine Marriages

38. TO MONTAGU, May 19, 1756.--No News from France but what is Smuggled--The King's Delight at the Vote for the Hanover Troops--Bon Mot of Lord Denbigh

39. TO THE SAME, Oct. 17, 1756.--Victory of the King of Prussia at Lowositz--Singular Race--Quarrel of the Pretender with the Pope

40. TO THE SAME, Nov. 4, 1756.--Ministerial Negotiations--Loss of Minorca--Disaster in North America

41. TO THE EARL OF STRAFFORD, July 4, 1757.--The King of Prussia's Victories--Voltaire's "Universal History"

42. TO ZOUCH, August 3, 1758.--His own "Royal and Noble Authors"