FOOTNOTES:
[61] Lord Torrington.
[62] In one of the hearings on this cause, Lord Mansfield, the Chief Justice, produced in court a libel published against Princess Emily, and insisted that the jury should take an oath that they had no hand in it—and yet, when they had taken the oath, he put off the cause!
[63] Elizabeth, half-sister of the Duke of Newcastle, was first wife of Charles Lord Viscount Townshend, Knight of the Garter, grandfather of Mr. Charles Townshend.
[64] Mr. Charles Townshend had married the Countess Dowager of Dalkeith, first cousin of the Earl of Bute.
[65] A Captain Cunningham, who had been ill-used in our service, and was retired to Leghorn, said, “They will want engineers,”—and immediately sold all he had, bought provisions and ammunition, and flung himself into St. Philip’s. This gallant man died in the island of Guadaloupe, at the taking of which he served, in 1759.
[66] They offered him the Duchy of Lancaster for life, with a pension of 2000l. a year; permission to remain Attorney-General (which produced 7000l. a year), and the reversion of the first Teller of the Exchequer for his nephew, Lord Stormont. At the beginning of October they bid up to 6000l. a year in pension. They pressed him to stay but a month, nay, only to defend them on the first day. Was innocence ever so extravagant, or so alarmed?—“Good God!” said Murray himself, “what merit have I, that you should load this country, for which so little is done with spirit, with the additional burthen of 6000l. a year?”