CHAPTER V.

The New House at Twickenham.--Its First Tenants.--Christened 'Strawberry Hill.'--Planting and Embellishing.--Fresh Additions.--Walpole's Description of it in 1753.--Visitors and Admirers.--Lord Bath's Verses.--Some Rival Mansions.--Minor Literature.--Robbed by James Maclean.--Sequel from _The World_.--The Maclean Mania.--High Life at Vauxhall.--Contributions to _The World_.--Theodore of Corsica.--Reconciliation with Gray.--Stimulates his Works.--The _Poëmata-Grayo-Bentleiana_.--Richard Bentley.--Müntz the Artist.--Dwellers at Twickenham.--Lady Suffolk and Mrs. Clive. 107