; he was so to King George II. This Lord was very skilful in all the
forms of the House, in which he discharged himself with great gravity.--
P.
[194] 'Sister:' alluding to Lady M.W. Montague, who is said to
have neglected her sister, the Countess of Mar, who died destitute in
Paris.
[195] 'Cibber's son, Rich:' two players; look for them in 'The
Dunciad.'--P.
[196] 'Blount:' author of an impious and foolish book, called
'The Oracles of Reason,' who, being in love with a near kinswoman of
his, and rejected, gave himself a stab in the arm, as pretending to kill
himself, of the consequence of which he really died.--P.
[197] 'Passerau:' author of another book of the same stamp,
called 'A Philosophical Discourse on Death,' being a defence of suicide.
He was a nobleman of Piedmont.
[198] 'A printer:' a fact that happened in London a few years
past. The unhappy man left behind him a paper justifying his action by
the reasonings of some of these authors.--P.
[199] 'Gin:' a spirituous liquor, the exhorbitant use of which
had almost destroyed the lowest rank of the people, till it was
restrained by an Act of Parliament in 1736.--P.
[200] 'Quaker's wife:' Mrs Drummond, a preacher.
[201] 'Landaff:' Harris by name, a worthy man, who had somehow
offended the poet.
[202] 'Allen:' of Bath, Warburton's father-in-law, the prototype
of All-worthy in 'Tom Jones.
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