Note 48 — Chapter II

Mr. Townshend had quitted the Army at the end of the last year, had connected himself with the Prince, and took all opportunities of opposing any of the Duke’s measures, and ridiculing him, and drawing caricatures of him and his Court, which he did with much humour. A bon mot of his was much repeated. Soon after he had quitted the Army, he was met at a review on the parade by Colonel Fitzwilliam, one of the Duke’s military spies, who said to him, “How came you, Mr. Townshend, to do us this honour?—but I suppose you only come as a spectator!” Mr. Townshend replied, “And why may not one come hither as a Spectator, Sir, as well as a Tatler?” Lord Robert Sutton was second son to the Duke of Rutland, and had been preferred to the command of a favourite regiment which the Duke had nearly instituted, before Lord Robert was of any rank in the Army; yet he deserted him, and accepted the place of Lord of the Bedchamber to the Prince.