full of polite kindness and masterly counsel, came like a large treasure upon me, while already glittering with riches. I was quite enchanted at Chester, so that I could with difficulty quit it. But the enchantment was the reverse of that of Circé; for so far was there from being any thing sensual in it, that I was all mind. I do not mean all reason only; for my fancy was kept finely in play. And why not? If you please, I will send you a copy or an abridgment of my Chester journal, which is truly a log-book of felicity. "The Bishop [Porteus] treated me with a kindness which was very flattering. I told him that you regretted you had seen so little of Chester. His Lordship bade me tell you, that he should be glad to show you more of it. I am proud to find the friendship with which you honour me is known in so many places. "I arrived here late last night. Our friend the Dean [Percy] has been gone from hence some months; but I am told at my inn, that he is very populous (popular). However, I found Mr. Law, the Archdeacon, son to the Bishop', and with him I have breakfasted and dined very agreeably. I got acquainted with him at the assizes here, about a year and a half ago. He is a man of great variety of knowledge, uncommon genius, and, I believe, sincere religion. I received the holy sacrament in the cathedral in the morning, this being the first Sunday in the month; and was at prayers there in the evening. It is divinely cheering to me to think that there is a cathedral so near Auchinleck; and I now leave Old England in such a state of mind as I am thankful to God for granting me. "The black dog that worries me at home I cannot but dread; yet, as I have been for some time past in a military train, I trust I shall repulse him. To hear from you will animate me like the sound of a trumpet; I therefore hope, that soon after my return to the northern field, I shall receive a few lines from you. "Colonel Stuart did me the honour to escort me in his carriage to show me Liverpool, and from thence back again to Warrington, where we parted.* In justice to my valuable wife, I must inform you she wrote to me, that as I was so happy, she would not be so selfish as to wish me to return sooner than business absolutely required my presence. She made my clerk write to me a post or two after to the same purpose, by commission from her; and this day a kind letter from her met me at the postoffice here, acquainting me that she and the little ones were well, and expressing all their wishes for my return home. I am, more and more, my dear Sir, your affectionate and obliged humble servant, "JAMES BOSWELL." "If Dean Percy can be popular at Carlisle, he may be very happy. He has in his disposal two livings, each equal or almost equal in value to the deanery; he may take one himself, and give the other to his son. "How near is the cathedral to Auchinleck, that you are so much delighted with it? It is, I suppose, at least an hundred and fifty miles off. However, if you are pleased, it is so far well. Let me know what reception you have from your father, and the state of his health. Please him as much as you can, and add no pain to his last years. "Of our friends here I can recollect nothing to tell you. I have neither seen nor heard of Langton. Beauclerk is just returned from Brighthelmstone, I am told, much better. Mr. Thrale and his family are still there; and his health is said to be visibly improved. He has not bathed, but hunted. At Bolt Court there is much malignity, but of late little open hostility. I have had a cold, but it is gone. Make my compliments to Mrs. Boswell, &c. I am, &c., SAM. JOHNSON." On November 22. and December 21. I wrote to him from Edinburgh, giving a very favourable report of the family of Miss Doxy's lover; -that after a good deal of inquiry I had discovered the sister of Mr. Francis Stewart, one of his amanuenses when writing his Dictionary; -that I had, as desired by him, paid her a guinea for an old pocket-book of her brother's, which he had retained; - and that the good woman, who was in very moderate circumstances, but contented and placid, wondered at his scrupulous and liberal honesty, and received the guinea as if sent her by Providence 5;— that I had repeatedly begged of him to keep his promise to send me his letter to Lord Ches 1 Dr. Edmond Law, master of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, Bishop of Carlisle, in which see he died in 1787. He was the father, and the archdeacon (afterwards Bishop of Elphin) the brother of the first Lord Ellenborough. — -CROKER. His regiment was afterwards ordered to Jamaica, where he accompanied it, and almost lost his life by the climate. This impartial order I should think a sufficient refutation of the idle rumour that "there was still something behind the throne greater than the throne itself."- BOSWELL. As if Lord Bute's influence could have prevented his son's regiment going to Jamaica! but Lord Bute's influence with the King was a bugbear of faction, which lasted near twenty years, after-not merely his power, but even his favour, had ceased to exist. - CROKER, 1847, terfield; and that this memento, like Delenda est Carthago, must be in every letter that I should write to him, till I had obtained my object. [JOHNSON TO MRS. THRALE. (Extract.) "London, Oct. 25. 1779. “On Saturday I walked to Dover Street [Miss Reynolds's] and back. Yesterday I dined with Sir Joshua. There was Mr. Eliot' of Cornwall, who inquired after my master. At night I was bespoken by Lady Lucan; but she was taken ill, and the assembly was put off. I am to dine with Renny tomorrow. Some old gentlewomen at the next door are in very great distress. Their little annuity comes from Jamaica, and is therefore uncertain; and one of them has had a fall, and both are very helpless; and the poor have you to help them. Persuade my master to let me give them something for him. It will be bestowed upon real want."] Dr. Lawrence. Death of Beauclerk. Letter-writing. Mr. Melmoth. Fitzosborne's - "DEAR SIR, At a time when all your friends ought to show their kindness, and with a character which ought to make all that know you your friends, you may wonder that you have yet heard nothing from me. I have been hindered by a vexatious and incessant cough, for which within these ten days I have been bled once, fasted four or five times, taken physic five times, and opiates, I think, six. This day it seems to remit. The loss, dear Sir, which you have lately suffered, I felt many years ago, and know therefore how much has been taken from you, and how little help can be had from consolation. He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good or evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless, till it is driven by external causes into a new channel. But the time of suspense is dreadful. "Our first recourse in this distressed solitude is, perhaps for want of habitual piety, to a gloomy acquiescence in necessity. Of two mortal beings, one must lose the other. Riots in But surely there is Letters. Somerset-House Exhibition. 66 Correspondence. Life of Garrick.” - Advice to a Young Clergyman. - Composition of Sermons. Borough Alexander Lady Southwell. - Mr. - Langton's Collectanea. Dr. Franklin's "Demonax." Election. - Macbean. Lord Thurlow. IN 1780, the world was kept in impatience for the completion of his "Lives of the Poets," upon which he was employed so far as his indolence allowed him to labour. I wrote to him on January 1. and March 13., sending him my notes of Lord Marchmont's information concerning Pope;-complaining that I had not heard from him for almost four months, though he was two letters in my debt; that I had suffered again from melancholy;hoping that he had been in so much better company (the Poets), that he had not time to think of his distant friends; for if that were the case, I should have some recompence for my uneasiness;-that the state of my affairs did not admit of my coming to London this year; and begging he would return me Goldsmith's two poems, with his lines marked. His friend Dr. Lawrence having now suffered the greatest affliction to which a man is liable, and which Johnson himself had felt in 1 First Lord Eliot. See post, sub 30th March, 1781.CROKER. 2 See it antè, p. 85. — C. a higher and better comfort to be drawn from the consideration of that Providence which watches over all, and a belief that the living and the dead are equally in the hands of God, who will reunite those whom he has separated, or who sees that it is best not to reunite. I am, dear Sir, &c., "SAM. JOHNSON." JOHNSON TO BOSWELL. "April 8. 1780. "DEAR SIR,- Well, I had resolved to send you the Chesterfield letter, but I will write once again without it. Never impose tasks upon mortals. To require two things is the way to have them both undone. "For the difficulties which you mention in your affairs, I am sorry; but difficulty is now very general; it is not therefore less grievous, for there is less hope of help. I pretend not to give you advice, not knowing the state of your affairs; and general counsels about prudence and frugality would do you little good. You are, however, in the right not to increase your own perplexity by home you will please your father. a journey hither; and I hope that by staying at "Poor dear Beauclerk― nec, ut soles, dabis joca. His wit and his folly, his acuteness and maliciousness, his merriment and reasoning, are now over. Such another will not often be found among mankind. He directed himself to be buried by the side of his mother; an instance of tenderness which I hardly expected. He has left his children to the care of Lady Di, and if she dies, of Mr. Langton, and of Mr. Leicester his relation, and a man of good character. His library has been offered to sale to the Russian ambassador.' "Dr. Percy, notwithstanding all the noise of the newspapers, has had no literary loss." Clothes and moveables were burnt to the value of about one hundred pounds; but his papers, and I think his books, were all preserved. "Poor Mr. Thrale has been in extreme danger from an apoplectical disorder, and recovered, beyond the expectation of his physicians: he is now at Bath, that his mind may be quiet, and Mrs. Thrale and Miss are with him. "Having told you what has happened to your friends, let me say something to you of yourself. You are always complaining of melancholy, and I conclude from those complaints that you are fond of it. No man talks of that which he is desirous to conceal, and every man desires to conceal that of which he is ashamed. Do not pretend to deny it; manifestum habemus furem. Make it an invariable and obligatory law to yourself, never to mention your own mental diseases. If you are never to speak of them, you will think on them but little; and if you think little of them, they will molest you rarely. When you talk of them, it is plain that you want either praise or pity: for praise there is no room, and pity will do you no good; therefore, from this hour speak no more, think no more, about them. “Your transaction with Mrs. Stewart gave me great satisfaction. I am much obliged to you for your attention. Do not lose sight of her. Your countenance may be of great credit, and of consequence of great advantage to her. The memory of her brother is yet fresh in my mind; he was an ingenious and worthy man. Please to make my compliments to your lady and to the young ladies. I should like to see them, pretty loves! I am, dear Sir, yours affectionately, SAM. JOHNSON." He acting, are transient; and of the social talents of Beauclerk, as of the dramatic powers of Garrick, little can remain but the general testimony of contemporaries to their excellence. Mr. Hardy, in his Life of Lord Charlemont, says of Beauclerk: "His conversation could scarcely be equalled. possessed an exquisite taste, various accomplishments, and the most perfect good breeding. He was eccentric-often querulous entertaining a contempt for the generality of the world, which the politeness of his manners could not always conceal; but to those whom he liked, most generous and friendly. Devoted at one moment to pleasure, and at another to literature, sometimes absorbed in play, and sometimes in books, he was, altogether, one of the most accomplished, and, when in good humour, aud surrounded by those who suited his fancy, one of the most agreeable men that could possibly exist." Life, vol. i. p. 344. Mr. Hardy has also preserved several of Beauclerk's letters, from one of which I extract some passages that touch on Johnson and his society. "Adelphi, 20th Nov. 1773. "Goldsmith the other day put a paragraph into the newspapers in praise of Lord Mayor Townshend. The same night he happened to sit next to Lord Shelburne, at Drury-lane I mentioned the circumstance of the paragraph to him, and he said to Goldsmith that he hoped he had mentioned nothing about Malagrida in it. Do you know,' answered Goldsmith, that I never could conceive the reason why they call you Malagrida, for Malagrida was a very good sort of man." You see plainly what he meant to say, but that happy turn of expression is peculiar to himself. Mr. Walpole says that this story is a picture of Goldsmith's whole life. [post, 23 March, 1783.] "Johnson has been confined for some weeks in the Isle of Sky; we hear that he was obliged to swim over to the main [JOHNSON TO MRS. THRALE. (Extract.) "London, April 6. 1780. "I have not quite neglected my Lives. Addison is a long one, but it is done. Prior is not short, and that is done too. I am upon Rowe, which cannot fill much paper. Seward (Mr. William) called on me one day and read Spence. I dined yesterday at Mr. Jodrell's in a great deal of company. On Sunday I dine with Dr. Lawrence, and at night go to Mrs. Vesey. I have had a little cold, or two, or three; but I did not much mind them, for they were not very bad." JOHNSON TO MRS. PORTER. "London, April 8. 1780. "DEAR MADAM, I am indeed but a sluggish correspondent, and know not whether I shall much mend: however, I will try. I am glad that your oysters proved good, for I would have every thing good that belongs to you; and would have your health good, that you may enjoy the rest. My health is better than it has been for some years past; and, if I see Lichfield again, I hope to walk about it. "Your brother's request I have not forgotten. I have bought as many volumes as contain about an hundred and fifty sermons, which I will put in a box, and get Mr. Mathias to send him. I shall add a letter. "We have been lately much alarmed at Mr. Thrale's. He has had a stroke, like that of an apoplexy; but he has at last got so well as to be at Bath, out of the way of trouble and business, and is likely to be in a short time quite well. I hope all the Lichfield ladies are quite well, and that every thing is prosperous among them. "A few weeks ago I sent you a little stuff gown, such as is all the fashion at this time. Yours is the same with Mrs. Thrale's, and Miss bought it for us. These stuffs are very cheap, and are thought very pretty. land, taking hold of a cow's tail. Be that as it may, Lady Di has promised to make a drawing of it. "Our poor club is in a miserable state of decay; unless you come and relieve it, it will certainly expire. Would you imagine that Sir Joshua Reynolds is extremely anxious to be a member at Almack's? [p. 501.] You see what noble ambition will make a man attempt. That den is not yet opened. There is nothing new at present in the literary world. Mr. Jones [Sir William], of our club, is going to publish an account, in Latin, of the Eastern poetry, with extracts translated verbatim in verse. I fancy it will be a very pretty book. Goldsmith has written a prologue for Mrs. Yates, which she spoke this evening before the Opera. It is very good. I hope you have fixed your time for returning to England. We cannot do without you. If you do not come here, I will bring all the Club over to Ireland, to live with you, and that will drive you here in your own defence. Johnson shall spoil your books, Goldsmith pull your flowers, and Boswell talk to you: stay, then, if you can. Adieu, my dear lord, &c. T. BEAUCLERK." Lady Di's pencil was much celebrated, and Horace Walpole built a room for the reception of some of her drawings, which he called the Beauclerk closet: but I have never seen any of her ladyship's works which seemed to me to merit, as works of art, such high reputation. - CROKER. 1 His library was sold by public auction in April and May, 1781, for 5,011. MALONE. 2 By a fire in Northumberland House, where he had an apartment, in which I have passed many an agreeable hour. BOSWELL. 3 See antè, p. 641. n. 5., and the Appendix. — C. 4 Spence's very amusing Anecdotes, which had been lent Johnson in manuscript: they were not printed in extenso; till 1820. CROKER. "Pray give my compliments to Mr. Pearson, and to every body, if any such body there be, that cares about me. "I am now engaged about the rest of the Lives, which I am afraid will take some time, though I purpose to use despatch; but something or other always hinders. I have a great number to do, but many of them will be short. "I have lately had colds; the first was pretty bad, with a very troublesome and frequent cough; Í but by bleeding and physic it was sent away. have a cold now, but not bad enough for bleeding. "For some time past, and indeed ever since I left Lichfield last year, I have abated much of my diet, and am, I think, the better for abstinence. can breathe and move with less difficulty; and I I am as well as people of my age commonly are. hope we shall see one another again some time this year. I am, dear love, your humble servant, "SAM. JOHNSON."] Pearson MSS. I Mrs. Thrale being now at Bath with her husband, the correspondence between Johnson and her was carried on briskly. [JOHNSON TO MRS. THRALE. (Extracts.) "April 11. 1780.1 "On Sunday I dined with poor Lawrence, who is deafer than ever. When he was told that Dr. Moisy visited Mr. Thrale, he inquired for what, and said that there was nothing to be done which Nature would not do for herself. On Sunday evening I was at Mr. Vesey's, and there was inquiry about my master; but I told them all good. There was Dr. Barnard of Eton, and we made a noise all the evening; and there was Pepys, and Wraxall till I drove him away. You are at all places of high resort, and bring home hearts by dozens; while I am seeking for something to say of men about whom I know nothing but their verses, and sometimes very little of them. Now I have begun, however, I do not despair of making an end. Nichols holds that Addison is the most taking of all that I have done. I doubt they will not be done before you come away. Mr. "Now you think yourself the first writer in the world for a letter about nothing. Can you write 1 Dated in Mrs. Thrale's volume, by mistake, 1779. CROKER. 2 Afterwards Sir William Weller Pepys, Baronet, father of Lord Chancellor Cottenham; a Master in Chancery; a great friend of Mrs. Thrale's, and, what is more to his honour, of Hannah More. There never was much cordiality between him and Johnson, but their differences became wider from Pepys's resentment of Johnson's alleged depreciation of Lord Lyttelton. That, I think, was only a pretext: Johnson was a little jealous of Pepys's favour at Streatham, and Pepys, who was much admired by a circle of his own, would not submit to Johnson's dictatorship. - CROKER, 1847. 3 Nathaniel Wraxall, who published some volumes of travels and history, and latterly Memoirs of his own Life, flippant, and often inaccurate, but amusing; and when duly sifted, not without value as a gossiping contribution to the history of his times. For a passage in this work, in which, reflecting on Count Woronzow, he was (somewhat overharshly, I think) convicted of a libel, and imprisoned in Newgate. He was born in 1751, and created a Baronet in 1813. CROKER. 4 Compare this with two former phrases, in which Shakespeare and Mrs. Montagu are mentioned (ante, p. 204, 205., and wonder at the inconsistencies to which the greatest genius and the highest spirit may be reduced! Perhaps Johnson's original disposition to depreciate Mrs. Montagu may have arisen from his having heard that she thought such a letter as this? so miscellaneous, with such noble disdain of regularity, like Shakspeare's works? such graceful negligence of transition, like the ancient enthusiasts? The pure voice of nature and of friendship. Now of whom shall I proceed to speak? Of whom but Mrs. Montagu? Having mentioned Shakspeare and Nature, does not the name of Montagu force itself upon me?" Such were the transitions of the ancients, which now seem abrupt, because the intermediate idea is lost to modern understandings." 66 1 On "April 15. — I thought to have finished Rowe's Life to-day, but have had five or six visiters who hindered me; and I have not been quite well. Next week I hope to despatch four of five of them." April 18. You make verses, and they are read in public, and I know nothing about them. This very crime, I think, broke the link of amity between Richardson and Miss M[ulso]3, after a tenderness and confidence of many years." "April 25. - How do you think I live? Thursday [20th] I dined with Hamilton, and went thence to Mrs. Ord.' On Friday, with much company, at Mrs. Reynolds's. On Saturday at Dr. Bell's. On Sunday at Dr. Burney's, with your two sweets from Kensington, who are both well at night came Mrs. Ord, Mr. Harris, and Mr. Greville, &c. On Monday with Reynolds; at night with Lady Lucan; to-day with Mr. Langton; to-morrow with the Bishop of St. Asaph; on Thursday with Mr. Bowles; Friday -; Saturday at the Academy; Sunday with Mr. Ramsay. I told Lady Lucan how long it was since she sent to me; but she said I must consider how the world rolls about her. I not only scour the town from day to day, but many visiters come to me in the morning, so that my work makes no great progress, but I will try to quicken it." Rasselas an opiate (Carter's Letters, iii. 108.). His later praise was no doubt produced by her charity to Mrs. Williams. This, though it may explain, does not excus? the inconsistencies.- CROKER, 1831-47. 5 Hester Mulso, afterwards Mrs. Chapone, one of Richardson's female côterie. When about three and twenty, she had been one of the few contributors to the Rambler (ante, p. 63.) She was born in 1727, married Mr. Chapone in 1760, and died in 1801. She was much connected with Mrs. Carter, Mrs. Montagu, and all the Blues.- CROKER, 1835. Probably the Right Hon. W. G. Hamilton.-CROKEL. 7 This lady (celebrated, like Mrs. Montagu and Mrs. Vesey, for her blue stocking coteries) was Miss Anne Dillingham, the only daughter of an eminent surgeon. She was early married to Mr. Ord, of Northumberland, who left her a very large property. She died in May, 1808, at the age of eightytwo. CROKER. 8 The annual dinner on opening the Exhibition.-CROKER. 9 About this time Johnson had a second interview with the King, not noticed either by Boswell or Mrs. Thrale. Hannah More says, that one evening at Mrs. Ord's," Johnson told me he had been with the KING that morning, who enjoined him to add Spenser to his Lives of the Poets.". Mem. i. 175.-CROKER, 1847. 10 This sneer is quite unjust-Mrs. Thrale's letters were certainly not studied; nor is the specimen produced at all different in style from the others.CROKER." MRS. THRALE TO JOHNSON. “I had a very kind letter from you yesterday, dear Sir, with a most circumstantial date.' You took trouble with my circulating letter, Mr. Evans writes me word, and I thank you sincerely for so doing; one might do mischief else, not being on the spot. Yesterday's evening was passed at Mrs. Montagu's. There was Mr. Melmoth. I do not like him though, nor he me. It was expected we should have pleased each other; he is, however, just Tory enough to hate the Bishop of Peterborough for Whiggism, and Whig enough to abhor you for Toryism. "Mrs. Montagu flattered him finely; so he had a good afternoon on't. This evening we spent at a concert. Poor Queeny's sore eyes have just released her; she had a long confinement, and could neither read nor write, so my master treated her, very good-naturedly, with the visits of a young woman in this town, a tailor's daughter, who professes music, and teaches so as to give six lessons a day to ladies, at five and threepence a lesson. Miss Burney says she is a great performer; and I respect the wench for getting her living so prettily. She is very modest and pretty-mannered, and not seventeen years old. 4 "You live in a fine whirl indeed. If I did not write regularly, you would half forget me, and that would be very wrong, for I felt my regard for you in my face last night, when the criticisms were going on. “This morning it was all connoisseurship. We went to see some pictures painted by a gentlemanartist, Mr. Taylor, of this place. My master makes one every where, and has got a good dawdling companion to ride with him now He looks well enough, but I have no notion of health for a man whose mouth cannot be sewed up. Burney and I and Queeny tease him every meal he eats, and Mrs. Montagu is quite serious with him; but what can one do? He will eat, I think; and if he does eat, I know he will not live. makes me very unhappy, but I must bear it. me always have your friendship. I am, sincerely, dear Sir, your faithful servant, It Let most "H. L. T." JOHNSON TO MRS. THRALE. (Extracts.) "London, May 1. 1780. "DEAREST MADAM, - Mr. Thrale never will live abstinently, till he can persuade himself to live This alludes to Johnson's frequent advice to her and Miss Thrale to date their letters; a laudable habit, which, however, he himself did not always practise. — CROKER. 2 William Melmoth, the author of Fitzosborne's Letters, and the translator of the Letters of Pliny and Cicero, and some of the minor works of the latter. He died in 1799, ætat. 89.-CROKER. 3 Dr. John Hinchliffe. Boswell. Fanny, afterwards Madam D'Arblay. — Croker, 1847. 5 I have taken the liberty to leave out a few lines. — BOSWELL. 6 Line of a song in the Spectator, No. 470. — CROKER, 7 Mary, daughter, and, at length, co-heiress of Mr. Hippesley Coxe, of Somersetshire, and wife of James Buller, Esq., of Downes, near Exeter, of whom Mrs. D'Arblay writes," Mrs. Buller is tall and elegant in her person, genteel by rule ***. Encourage, as you can, the musical girl. where mutual approbation is particularly expected. Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, There is often on both sides a vigilance not overbenevolent; and as attention is strongly excited, so that nothing drops unheeded, any difference in taste or opinion, and some difference where there is no restraint will commonly appear, immediately generates dislike. "Never let criticisms operate on your face or your mind; it is very rarely that an author is hurt by his critics. The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket. A very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed. From the author of 'Fitzosborne's Letters' I cannot think myself in much danger. I met him only once about thirty years ago, and in some small dispute reduced him to whistle. Having not seen him since, that is the last impression. Poor Moore, the fabulist, was one of the company. clination, is very convenient. You would, by your "Mrs. Montagu's long stay, against her own inown confession, want a companion; and she is par pluribus. Conversing with her you may find variety in one. ["At Mrs. Ord's I met one Mrs. [Buller]', a travelled lady, of great spirit, and some consciousness of her own abilities. We had a contest of gallantry an hour long, so much to the diversion of the company, that, at Ramsay's, last night, in a crowded room, they would have pitted us again. who comes to every place; and Lord Monboddo, There were Smelt and the Bishop of St. Asaph, and Sir Joshua, and ladies out of tale. "The Exhibition, - how will you do, either to see or not to see! The exhibition is eminently splendid. There is contour, and keeping, and grace, and expression, and all the varieties of artificial excellence. The apartments were truly very noble. The pictures, for the sake of a skylight, are at the top of the house; there we dined, and I sat over against the Archbishop of York." May 7. 1780. I dined on Wednesday with Mr. Fitzmaurice"; who almost made me promise to pass part of the summer at Llewenny. Tomorrow I dine with Mrs. Southwell [p. 246.]; and on Thursday with Lord Lucan. To-night I go to Miss Monkton's. 10 Then I scramble, when you do not quite shut me up: but I am miserably under petticoat government, and yet am not very weary, nor much ashamed." and ugly in her face, and abrupt and singular in her manners. She is very clever, sprightly, witty, and much in vogue — a Greek scholar and a celebrated traveller having had the maternal heroism to accompany her son on the Grand Tour." -Mem. of Burney, vol. ii. p. 291.- CROKER, 1835-47. Leonard Smelt, Esq., sub-governor to the sons of George III. He was much in the blue stocking circle of the day; he died in 1800, at an advanced age. - CROKER. 9 The Hon. Thomas Fitzmaurice, only brother to Lord Shelburn, through whom, perhaps, may have come Johnson's acquaintance with his Lordship, (ante. p. 584. n. 5.) though I incline to believe that it was of an earlier date. Fitzmaurice had bought the Llewenny estate from Mrs. Thrale's uncle. - CROKER, 1847. Mr. 10 The Hon. Mary Monkton, daughter of the first Viscount Galway, born April 1746; married in 1786 to Edmund, seventh |