Note 77 — Chapter III

Jane, daughter to Lord Abercorn, and wife of Lord Archibald Hamilton, was Mistress of the Robes to the Princess of Wales, and for some years governed absolutely at the Prince’s Court. She had contrived to have the Princess told, before her arrival in England, that Lady **** was his mistress, to divert any suspicions from herself; and had planted so many of her own relations about her, that one day at Carlton-house, Sir William Stanhope called everybody there whom he did not know, Mr. or Mrs. Hamilton. Lady Archibald quitted that Court soon after Mr. Pitt accepted a place in the Administration.