L30/14/350/1a

From G. Selwyn, Chesterfield Street to 2nd Baron Grantham:

7 Feb 1772

From: 1772 To: 1772

Has preached to Tuesday night club to write. Princess Dowager [?] on point of death. Levee cancelled. Petition of Sir W. Meredith to abolish the subscription to the 39th Article. House of Commons sat till 11 p.m. yesterday. Rejected by large majority. Fitzsimmons spoke well. Play at Almack's surpasses all former transactions of that kind as much as all credibility Charles lost £11,000 and Shee the same sum last night. Bally and Selwyn witness to £10,000 during course of winter. Carlisle has so far kept money he has won. Thynne wins about 14 or 15,000. Pantheon popular, thought it will not continue after novelty wears off. General Chomondley gives a Ball tonight to Lady Molyneux. Another Ball planned at the French Ambassador's if death of H.R.H. doesn't postpone it. House breakers hung in numbers, but they are not "extinguished". Schemes afoot for a new Police. Charles moves next week for a total repeal of the Marriage Act. Lord Carmarthen to marry Lady Amelia D'Arcy. Lady Beauchamp will not live. Storer lives in the House with Crawfurd. Hare lives with Charles. Lady M. Fox ready to lie in. Many Auctions of good pictures. Cleve's will be the best. H.R.H.'s at Windsor .....translation. Denmark affairs suspended for the present. Mob inclined to take part....translation. Lady Carlisle "looks as if she should have this year another chance for a Dauphin". Sir J. Lambert over, it is said, to make a proposal to Madame Runell/Dunell[?] the Danceuse de L'Opera [probably refers to Anna Heinel 1753-1808]. Almack's flourishes, White's declining. Blenheim Party, came away all lousy, make Carlisle tell the story. Ladies Club. Hears nothing. Great deal of talk about Grantham's Coach. Coll. Kare papers and would have Board of Trade but Calcraft won't support him. Lady Ossory; stories full of foolish stories about her. Storer has written to Frederick. March wishes to be remembered. Carlisle's looks not improved by gambling. [End of letter missing].

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Meredith,
Fitzsimmons,
Almack,
Bally,
Shee,
Carlisle,
Thynne,
Chomondley,
Molyneux,
Carmarthen,
D'Arcy, Amelia,
Beauchamp,
Storer,
Crawfurd,
Hare,
Fox,
Lambert, J.,
Heinel, Anna (1753-1808),
Calcraft,
Ossory,
FitzPatrick, Anne, (Countess of Upper Ossory),
Robinson, Thomas (2nd Baron Grantham),
Selwyn, George Augustus

gambling, executions, burglary, police, specific aucton sales, MARRIAGE, dancers, Blenheim Palace, entertainment, dancing, POLITICS, horse drawn coaches