[222] 'Hart:' a dancing-master of the day.
[223] 'A set:' an invidious reflection on the Society for the
Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, founded in the
year 1753.
[224] 'Bourbon's:' the family compact between France and Spain.
[225] 'Gazette:' the _Brussels Gazette_, a notorious paper of that
time.
[226] 'Patriot's heart:' Mr Pitt, afterwards Lord Chatham.
[227] 'Granby:' the Marquis of Granby, distinguished in a conspicuous
manner during the seven years' war, under Prince Ferdinand of
Brunswick. See Junius.
[228] 'Rhyme:' Mallet addressed a contemptible poem, entitled 'Truth in
Rhyme,' to the celebrated Lord Chesterfield.
[229] 'Place:' the Royal Exchange.
[230] 'N----:' not known.
[231] 'Pewterers' Hall:' Macklin's recitations and his lectures on
elocution were delivered at Pewterers' Hall, in Lime Street.
[232] 'Dulman:' Sir Samuel Fludyer, Bart. M.P. for Chippenham,
Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England, and Lord Mayor of London for
1761-2.
[233] 'Newfoundland:' in May 1762 a French squadron escaped out of
Brest in a fog, and took the town of St John's in Newfoundland.
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