Wharton's Ancestors.--His Early Years.--Marriage at
Sixteen.--Wharton takes leave of his Tutor.--The Young Marquis
and the Old Pretender.--Frolics at Paris.--Zeal for the Orange
Cause.--A Jacobite Hero.--The Trial of Atterbury.--Wharton's
Defence of the Bishop.--Hypocritical Signs of Penitence.--Sir
Robert Walpole duped.--Very Trying.--The Duke of Wharton's
'Whens.'--Military Glory at Gibraltar.--'Uncle
Horace.'--Wharton to 'Uncle Horace.'--The Duke's
Impudence.--High Treason.--Wharton's Ready Wit.--Last
Extremities.--Sad Days in Paris.--His Last Journey to
Spain.--His Death in a Bernardine Convent. p. 148