[315] 'Second:' Churchill himself.
[316] 'Hogarth:' here satirically represented as dead, lived four weeks
after this poem was published, and died nine days before Churchill.
[317] 'M----:' Melcombe.
[318] 'Wingate:' the purse-proud upstarts of the day are here
designated by the generic name of Wingate, an eminent arithmetician,
who lived early in the seventeenth century.
[319] 'Old Paul:' Paul Whitehead, a contemptible sycophant as well as
profligate.
[320] 'Willes:' Dr Edward Willes, Bishop of Bath and Wells.
[321] 'Chancellor:' the Lord High Chancellor is intrusted with the
custody of all idiots and lunatics.
[322] 'Singlespeech:' the Right Honourable William Gerrard Hamilton.
See Boswell, who describes him as a man of great talent; others have
ascribed his single speech to the aid of Burke.
[323] 'Goy:' M. Pierre Goy, a Frenchman of brilliant accomplishments.
[324] 'Griffiths:' Ralph Griffiths, a bookseller, who, in 1749,
published the first number of the 'Monthly Review.'
[325] 'Cotes:' Humphrey Cotes, a staunch supporter of Wilkes.
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