o
the waters; but on his way he was so violently attacked that he was
forced to stop at a little village. Here he found himself without the
means of going farther, and in the worst state of health. The monks of a
Bernardine convent took pity on him and received him into their house.
He grew worse and worse; and in a week died on the 31st of May, without
a friend to pity or attend him, among strangers, and at the early age of
thirty-two.

Thus ended the life of one of the cleverest fools that ever disgraced
our peerage.

LORD HERVEY.

George II. arriving from Hanover.--His Meeting with the
Queen.--Lady Suffolk.--Queen Caroline.--Sir Robert
Walpole.--Lord Hervey.--A set of Fine Gentlemen.--An Eccentric
Race.--Carr, Lord Hervey.--A Fragile Boy.--Description of
George II.'s Family.--Anne Brett.--A Bitter Cup.--The Darling
of the Family.--Evenings at St. James's.--Frederick, Prince of
Wales.--Amelia Sophia Walmoden.--Poor Queen Caroline!--Nocturnal
Diversions of Maids of Honour.--Neighbour George's Orange
Chest.--Mary Lepel, Lady Hervey.--Rivalry.--Hervey's Intimacy
with Lady Mary.--Relaxations of the Royal Household.--Bacon's
Opinion of Twickenham.--A Visit to Pope's Villa.--The Little
Nightingale.--The Essence of Small Talk.--Hervey's Affectation
and Effeminacy.--Pope's Quarrel with Hervey and Lady
Mary.--Hervey's Duel with Pulteney.--'The Death of Lord Hervey:
a Drama.'--Queen Caroline's last Drawing-room.--Her Illness and
Agony.--A Painful Scene.--The Truth discovered.--The Queen's
Dying Bequests.--The King's Temper.--Archbishop Potter is sent
for.--The Duty of Reconciliation.--The Death of Queen
Caroline.--A Change in Hervey's Life.--Lord Hervey's
Death.--Want of Christianity.--Memoirs of his Own Time.

The village of Kensington was disturbed in its sweet repose one day,
more than a century ago, by the rumbling of a ponderous coach and six,
with four outriders and two equerries kicking up the dust; whilst a
small body of heavy dragoons rode solemnly after the huge vehicle. It
waded, with inglorious struggles, through a deep mire of mud, between
the Palace and Hyde Park, until the cortege entered Kensington Park, as
the gardens were then called, and began to track the old road that led
to the red-brick structure to which William III. had added a higher
story, built by Wren. There are two r