CHAPTER II.

Patent Places under Government.--Starts with Gray on the Grand Tour, March, 1739.--From Dover to Paris.--Life at Paris.--Versailles.--The Convent of the Chartreux.--Life at Rheims.--A _Fête Galante_.--The Grande Chartreuse.--Starts for Italy.--The tragedy of Tory.--Turin; Genoa.--Academical Exercises at Bologna.--Life at Florence.--Rome; Naples: Herculaneum.--The Pen of Radicofani.--English at Florence.--Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.--Preparing for Home.--Quarrel with Gray.--Walpole's Apologia; his Illness, and return to England. 27