Wits, beaux, and beauties of the Georgian era . he firstnews of Comwalliss surrender from Williams, who dinedwith him ; but Gilly was evidently siding with the True Blues, for the other adds :— You may be sure it was a subject he did not liketo dwell upon ; and I chose to talk with him rather ofold than of modern times, because of them we maybe agreed ; of the present, whatever we think, we shouldtalk and differ in discourse widely. In 1786 we hear of his dining with WiUiams, andWilhams dining with him. In 1789, when he hved muchat Richmond, WiUiams, with Storer and others of the oldset, frequ
Wits, beaux, and beauties of the Georgian era . he firstnews of Comwalliss surrender from Williams, who dinedwith him ; but Gilly was evidently siding with the True Blues, for the other adds :— You may be sure it was a subject he did not liketo dwell upon ; and I chose to talk with him rather ofold than of modern times, because of them we maybe agreed ; of the present, whatever we think, we shouldtalk and differ in discourse widely. In 1786 we hear of his dining with WiUiams, andWilhams dining with him. In 1789, when he hved muchat Richmond, WiUiams, with Storer and others of the oldset, frequently called upon him. And as late as September1790, only a few months before his death, Selwyn remarksupon a rallying letter Williams had sent him about hiscontinued fondness for children and nurseries. Butif Gilly did not drop out of his old set, he outUvedmost of them. Selwyn died in 1791, Horace Walpole in1797, and Storer in 1799. Wilhams lasted on until 1805,when he died at his house in Cleveland Row, St Jamess,at the age of Henry Mevcr, , IIVDK, DUCHESS OF QUEENSBERRYl-toiii a miniature THE FRIEND OF GAY CATHERINE HYDE, DUCHESS OFQUEENSBERRY CATHERINE HYDE, Duchess of Queensberry,was unquestionably one of the most notablewomen of her time. Her radiant beautyand lively wit were owned by friend and foealike ; and she was celebrated in verse by Prior, and Pope,and Gay, and Thompson, and Whitehead. But so pro-nounced was her disregard of some of the conventionahtiesof the ultra-conventional society in which she lived, thatHorace Walpole and other like-minded persons amongsther contemporaries considered her to be half mad. Thedisposition to regard anything in the nature of eccen-tricity as sheer insanity is unfortunately so strong thatthis impression has not only survived but Chambers, for example, in his Traditions ofEdinburgh, roundly asserts it as an undoubted fact that before her marriage, she had been confined in a stra
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