Wits, beaux, and beauties of the Georgian era . rk and hemlock, Ill do anything for some time longer, said the old man, but my patience will, I see, after a certain time, beexhausted. It was exhausted in less than two months ;for he died on the 25th of January 1791, in his seventy- i8o WTTS BFAUX AND BEAUTIES second year. His oldest surviving friend, Horace Walpole,bewailing his loss in a letter to Mrs Berry, said, Him Ireally loved, not only for his infinite wit but for a thousandgood qualities. And shortly afterwards, another friendthus gracefully expressed his regret in one of the literaryp
Wits, beaux, and beauties of the Georgian era . rk and hemlock, Ill do anything for some time longer, said the old man, but my patience will, I see, after a certain time, beexhausted. It was exhausted in less than two months ;for he died on the 25th of January 1791, in his seventy- i8o WTTS BFAUX AND BEAUTIES second year. His oldest surviving friend, Horace Walpole,bewailing his loss in a letter to Mrs Berry, said, Him Ireally loved, not only for his infinite wit but for a thousandgood qualities. And shortly afterwards, another friendthus gracefully expressed his regret in one of the literaryperiodicals :— If. this gay favourite lost, they yet can live,A tear to Selwyn let the Graces give !With rapid kindness teach Oblivions pallOer the sunk foibles of the man to fall ;And fondly dictate to a faithful MuseThe prime distinction of the friend they social wit, which, never kindling strife,Blazed in the small, sweet courtesies of life ;Those little sapphires round the diamond shone,Lending soft radiance to the richer 11 KN U 1 K 1 1 A, C(.iL N IKSS Ol SI IM- (. A ROYAL MISTRESS HENRIETTA HOWARD, COUNTESS OF SUFFOLK WHEN George I. came over from Hanoverin 1714 to ascend what he called the throneof his ancestors he brought no queenwith him. His unhappy consort, SophieDorothea of Celle, was then a prisoner in the castle ofAhlden, where she remained until, after thirty years ofmiserable captivity, death released her but a few monthsbefore the close of the reign of her brutal and vindictivehusband. Owing to this circumstance Caroline of Anspachwas the first lady of the land ; and, as Horace Walpoleinforms us, the most promising of the young lords andgentlemen of the Whig party, and the prettiest andliveliest of the young ladies, formed the Court of the Princeand Princess of Wales at St Jamess Palace. Especiallyprominent amongst these, both on account of her ownpersonal quahties and of the peculiarity of her position,was Henrietta Howard, one of the wo
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